Mildly Infuriating

If in the USA, look for "100%[fruit] juice" in easily readable font.

Cheap fruit drinks have been this way for the last half century, probably longer.

There's not going to be a major health difference between chugging this shit and fruit juice in terms of how much sugar you're taking in, your body doesn't really care where the sugar comes from, it acts the same inside you. An 8 ounce glass of Welche's Corn Syrup versus an 8 ounce glass of fresh squeezed orange juice are both going to be basically 8 ounces of candy. The orange juice just has more vitamin C and maybe some pulp to slow down the sugar spike in your blood if that's an issue for you.

"Real" fruit juices might have added vitamins or even some amount of fiber, but fruit juice is generally not a healthy drink. It's an alternative to other things like soda or alcohol but you don't reach for a fruit juice bottle for daily hydration. Drink more water, then whatever sweet treats you want on occasion.

A fresh piece of fruit is a bit healthier because it has all those vitamins and minerals and fiber which is good for you, and the fiber content slows down the rapid sugar digestion. But again, it's all carbohydrate calories, that's the area you should be focused on more than if something is "natural."

Just means you get corn juice in addition to all those fruit juices.

There's juice that's literally labelled in big huge text 100% juice, not from concentrate on the front of the bottle.

Then look left 2 feet and buy anything but this trash.

Skill issue.

The "100%" on the front is very tricksy and wouldn't fly in the EU.

It was deliberately put there to trick people into thinking 100% fruit content, but it's actually whatever they could find in there that had anything to do with 100%.

Here, there's always the fruit content up front, wether it's 1%, 10%, 50% or 100%

It is approx 9 teaspoons of sugar per 300ml bottle. Typical tea cup is 250-300ml. Imagine putting 9 teaspoons of sugar in your tea or coffee. Fucking gross.

Aye, USA famously have terrible consumer rights so they can get away with shite like this

EU and UK (for now) have stuff like the Square Bananas act and the False Advertising act where this would be classified as illegally lying to the consumers and get the product taken off of shelves.

We even for USA imports have this policy that they must have their ingredients list covered by a more accurate sticker

Yeah, I stopped buying anything Welch’s for just this reason. Actually I’m not sure I ever started. When I bought juice, I always looked for some that had juice. Now that juice has entered a new phase of enshittication, it’s just not worth it, even for special occasions

Yes

shit says copywright 2023.. how old is that juice?

All you need to do is read the label. Which you should always do for everything you buy.

Pure passion fruit juice would probably cost you 10-20$ per liter and it would be waaay too concentrated.

Look for 100% juice.

While you're at it, look for "zero sugar" products. They use sucralose, which is 600 times sweeter (gram for gram) than sugar, so they use way less of it. No aftertaste either, though it doesn't have that "sugary" flavour, so it does taste differently. After a while I just think it's better.

100% passion fruit juice? I shudder.

I don't know how the law is where you are, but around here there's a clear and simple word for 100% juice. But we also have the "juice drink". It's a little sad because people who don't bother with such things will fall for it over and over. But once you know the verbiage it's simple enough.

What really fucks me up is how little juice there is in it, and how much fructose syrup. 😡 It's possible to produce affordable drinks that don't add any sugar. Apple or grape juice concentrate is cheap.