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Re:90% of US has a poor diet, and 25% don’t exercise by throwawayciv651 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @05:58AM (#30070467)
Fruit juice means fresh fruit juiced without adding any sugar right? Some people refer to fruit juice as the ones you see in tetrapacks.

Real fruit juice is very much different from soda pop.

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Re:90% of US has a poor diet, and 25% don’t exercise by lkbm on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:19AM (#30072733)
If we're just looking at sugar content, it's really not that different. Pepsi has ~11% more sugar than fresh apple juice:

25g of sugar in 285g of juice[0] = that's 37 grams in 355ml of juice[1] vs. 41 grams of sugar in 355ml of soda[2], which is 110.8% more than the juice[3].

The half gram of fiber probably makes it little better, but it's still a very sugary drink.

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fresh+apple+juice+nutr... [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=25*(355%2F240) [2] https://www.pepsi.com/#!products/pepsi [3] https://www.google.com/search?q=41%2F37

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Re:90% of US has a poor diet, and 25% don’t exercise by throwawayciv651 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:13AM (#30073527)
I might be remembering the details wrong, but I heard an actual doctor saying there is difference between fresh fruit juice and soda pop.

I found this that seems like what the doctor said, but I'm not sure. Click on 'transcript' and read it.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/if-fructose-is-bad-what-abo...

Edit: Other than this, fresh fruit juice contains minerals, vitamins, antioxidants etc etc.

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Re:90% of US has a poor diet, and 25% don’t exercise by drekk on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @07:46PM (#30080234)
High fructose corn syrup is not the same thing as fructose, all other things being equal. Fiber also helps modulate the insulin response. Sugar isn't the enemy, if you're eating fruit you're getting a lot more than fructose from it. The problem is when people get a large % of their calories from nutritionally deficient food, like soda.
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