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I get that it says “flavored juice drink” now, but I was tired and the text is pretty small.

“Fruit snacks” are so much worse. It’s just candy, and inferior in taste and texture to anything made with actual fruit.

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[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Unless you’re looking for Apple or grape juice specifically, this is what you get. I’ve long decided to avoid juices as a result. If I want a sugar water packet, I just pack a honeycrisp apple, orange, Asian pear, plum, or a slightly overripe bartlett pear.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Apple and grape are the same

8oz of Welch grape juice has 35g sugar. 20oz of classic coke has 65g sugar. Adjusted for volume, that's 26g/8oz. Somehow fucking coke has less sugar. Apple is ironically the same as coke at 53g per 16oz

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They are, however, made of the fruit they’re named after with little sugar added. That 8oz is about half a pound, and half a pound of grapes is calorically comparable. I’d guess that the apple/juice situation is similar but it’s harder to ascertain because of variation.

We’ve cultivated tree candy, and I can’t see it any other way.

[–] mech@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago

Grape juice and apple juice naturally have that much sugar, even if there's none added.

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[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Disagree, I was able to find the local grocery store's store branded 100% fruit juice in cranberry, apple, grape, and pomegranate. It's just a regular grocery store too.

They even had the welch's 100% juice varieties.

Now that being said I had to pay real close attention to the labels to select the right juice, but the good stuff is still out there

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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Curiously, where I am, apple juice is so easy to come by that other juices are diluted with apple juice.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Maybe true in USA, not true here

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[–] tomi000@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You can cut strong juice with other juice instead of with water and HFCS. Mixing passion fruit and orange juice at a level where it still mostly tastes of passion fruit makes something nice and not so expensive that it has to be sold at a different price to other orange juice.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it would be waaay too concentrated

100% is 100%. But yeah, you probably wouldn't like the taste.

[–] tomi000@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Yes. Noone drinks a cup of 100% lemon juice

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[–] Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 1 month ago (20 children)
[–] TwilitSky@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What Canada doesn't tell you is that they permit 10 Micrograms of Beaver Essence in all products.

[–] PhoenixDog@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I mean, we all gather every year and conduct a ritual to send all our hate and anger into our geese, which gives us the polite nature you see today.

What's a little beaver essence on top of it?

[–] Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

permit

You misspelled require

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Juices like this also exist in the US...

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[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

On the lemonade, I assume that you are pointing out that it is cane sugar rather than HFCS?

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[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

which is also not good for you, just to be clear.

one of my new years rezzies was to eat more fruit and it's been actually really enjoyable. Fresh mango, pineapple, cherries, grapes...

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"not good for you" is relative. Heavily dependent on individual case by case and against what standards. Sure, there are many better alternatives. But I'd argue there are even many more worse ones.

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

that is fair. I drink barley fruit juice, otherwise known as scotch.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 4 points 1 month ago

It's not. Fruit juice is pretty much just sugar water. It's really not even a healthy alternative to soda.

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[–] Retail4068@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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

Skill issue.

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Or perhaps we shouldn't create a society where buying juice requires having and using a skill.

[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago

Why not both? Both is good

[–] uberfreeza@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm more annoyed that stores can have entire "juice" aisles, but only the last 10 or so ft. are 100% juice, only 2-3 ft. of which is organic. The rest are juice flavored drinks.

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[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Such a fucking scam. I'm ok with "juice from concentrate", but this is literally more HFCS than juice. There should be no HFCS in juice; real juice has plenty of sugar all on its own.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 10 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

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[–] MrRazamataz@lemmy.razbot.xyz 10 points 1 month ago

"family farmer owned"

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

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

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 9 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Aarrodri@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Then why not just eat actual fruit?

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[–] paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

These things have so much fucking sugar in them it's actually crazy. I had one for the first time ever about a month ago (apple flavor I think) and it was so sweet I don't think I was able to even finish the thing. It's insane. I had no clue they were this over-sweetened based on how often I've seen the brand and I genuinely don't know how anyone drinks this stuff.

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Buy real fruit and a juicer and make juice. Or buy frozen concentrates and make juice (concentrates are just condensed juice frozen for longevity). Or just eat fruit. So many options that arent sugar water.

But for real, the reason things like this exist, apart from being cheaper to produce, is that shelf stable juices that dont lose all flavor over time is sometimes basically impossible. And fresher juices that arent shelf stable either will be heavily seasonal or need to be green house grown for off season which is rarely worth the overhead.

Slight tangent and fun fact, the old joke "why is lemonade made with artificial flavoring but floor cleaner is made with real lemons?" Actually has a legit answer. Check a not-from-concentrate bottle of orange juice at the grocery and you should see that it contains artificial flavors, even though it also contains real juice. There is a reason for that. Citrus juices can be preserved long term to make the supply of juices available year round. However, the flavor compounds in citrus juices oxidize overtime making it blander and blander. It will be fine to drink, but it will not taste like an orange/lemon/lime/etc. So they have to add that flavor back in with artificial flavorings. And the reason that floor cleaner has real lemon is that its properties that make it clean well are not diminished by long term storage.

[–] Drbreen@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

The "drink" part of the description is the give away. 66% sugar, faaaark, diabetes in a bottle. Fuck that shit.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Passion fruit is tasty. I'd like to try it in a beverage (not this beverage)

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