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Re:Study finds elevated levels of toxic metals in fruit juic... by yamtaddle on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @02:03PM (#35878144)
The weirdest part to me is that the flavor in many fruit juices is artificial (or "natural", but that can also mean what most people would call "artificial", because our labeling laws are designed to enable fraud). Pasteurization and such take so much of the flavor out, that they have to add it back in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_juice#Not_from_concentr...

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Re:Study finds elevated levels of toxic metals in fruit juic... by MBCook on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @02:50PM (#35878758)
They’re also mostly apple and possibly pear juice because those are so cheap, with other flavors/colors added.

Grape juice is absolutely not normally grape juice plus possibly sugar. That would be too expensive.

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Re:Study finds elevated levels of toxic metals in fruit juic... by floxy on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @05:01PM (#35880341)
>Grape juice is absolutely not normally grape juice plus possibly sugar.

How sure are we on that? It has been a while, but I recall something like Welch's tasting like grape juice.

https://www.welchs.com/juices/100-percent/concord-grape

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Re:Study finds elevated levels of toxic metals in fruit juic... by MBCook on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @06:35PM (#35881238)
Seems like theirs actually is. But that’s also likely why it costs more.
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Re:Study finds elevated levels of toxic metals in fruit juic... by vikramkr on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @07:53PM (#35881864)
Apparently even walmart's great value grape juice that's half the price is apparently 100% grape juice. Given how much Welsch's seems to be pushing the grown in America angle while a location isn't mentioned at all for great value, I think it's a fair bet that they've found some source of super cheap grapes somewhere to let them get that 100% grape claim
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Re:Study finds elevated levels of toxic metals in fruit juic... by genewitch on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @08:05PM (#35881970)
Welch's purple grape juice is concord grapes: "In the United States, 417,800 tons were produced in 2011.[3] The major growing areas are the Finger Lakes District of New York, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, Southwestern Michigan, and the Yakima Valley in Washington.[4]"

You can use it to make wine just fine, if you're in to that sort of thing.

If i had to guess the white grape juice is whatever the green seedless variety in california was for decades from the late 70s on.

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Re:Study finds elevated levels of toxic metals in fruit juic... by xcdzvyn on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @01:11AM (#35883867)
Can you elaborate? I don't see your point.

If I read "no artificial colours or flavours", I don't presume nothing has been added, because that would be really naive. So if the ethyl butyrate they re-introduce to the juice came from fruit, I see that as natural, and a pretty reasonable thing to do. Is that what you're contending?

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