Study finds elevated levels of toxic metals in fruit juices and soft drinks

Re:Study finds elevated levels of toxic metals in fruit juic... by BrandoElFollito on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @03:42PM (#35879430)

It depends where. In France a juice that is "100% juice" must be made from squeezed fruits (any concentrate is forbidden).

It is till a lot of sugar and eating the fruit is way, way better but at least there are no artificial whatever or added sugar.

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Re:Study finds elevated levels of toxic metals in fruit juic... by civilized on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @09:12PM (#35882446)

Does that prevent the juice maker from using their standard strategy to load stuff up with sugar: grape juice?

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Re:Study finds elevated levels of toxic metals in fruit juic... by BrandoElFollito on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:40AM (#35884761)

Yes. When you have "100% orange juice" it means that the juice is squeezed from oranges and that's all (you can have the with or without pulp version, that's all).

You could have grape juice in (obviously) 100% grape juice, or in mixtures where the percentage of each juice (again, squeezed from fruits) is listed on the standard components label.

We di have juices from concentrate, but it is then clearly labelled as such. Or juices that are only part fruit, and it is labelled as such too.

The main thing was to make sure that when the juice says 100% it has to be only this and from squeezed fruit.

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Re:Study finds elevated levels of toxic metals in fruit juic... by civilized on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @08:12AM (#35886219)

Ah, okay. In the US it's standard to call a product 100% juice, no matter what the fruit, by mixing with grape juice to provide the sugar.

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