Re:Juice may taste good, but unlike the fruit, it’s not healthy
by d--b on Sunday April 30, 2017 @11:07AM
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Orange juice has about the same amount of sugar as regular coke. Carrot / tomato / beet has about half of that, green veggies have very little.
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Re:Juice may taste good, but unlike the fruit, it’s not healthy
by inDigiNeous on Sunday April 30, 2017 @03:17PM
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There is a big difference in natural sugars contained in orange juice (and I'm talking about self made orange juice here, not these boxed juices you can buy at a store) than the white, processed, probably also containing high glycose syrup -sugar you find in a coke.
Re:Juice may taste good, but unlike the fruit, it’s not healthy
by arcticbull on Sunday April 30, 2017 @04:33PM
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Neither has pulp, and the various sugars are free-floating. With no fiber to slow its absorption or to make you feel full. If you extracted the sugar it'd be white too.
Oranges contain glucose, fructose and sucrose.
The ratios of fructose and glucose are pretty much the same in both fruit and table sugar. Most fruits are 40 to 55 percent fructose (there’s some variation: 65 percent in apples and pears; 20 percent in cranberries), and table sugar (aka sucrose) is 50/50. [1] Your Coke is 42-55% fructose. [2]
Are there differences in vitamins and minerals? Yep. Fiber? Nope. Sugar? Nope. And the latter two are the biggest deal IMO.
[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/29/fruit-sugar-versus-...
[2] https://examine.com/nutrition/is-hfcs-high-fructose-corn-syr...