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The Controversy Around Juice


If your experiences are like mine, you have been warned about giving your child juice. These warnings suggest juice leads to obesity and tooth decay (which is true if you send your child to bed with a sippy cup of juice). I have always significantly watered juice down for my toddlers. The Organic Consumer’s Association (OCA) has debunked the myth that juice causes obesity. “Contrary to popular belief, drinking pure 100 percent fruit juice does not make young children overweight or at risk for becoming overweight, new research shows. Pure fruit juice provides essential nutrients and, in moderation, may actually help children maintain a healthy weight.” The culprit is all of those juices that aren’t 100% juice, especially if they contain high fructose corn syrup.

There is controversy as to whether food products, such as Seven Up, should be labeled as “all natural” for containing high fructose corn syrup. Many of the sodas sold in health food stores also contain this substance. According to the Washington Post, “Made from corn starch, high-fructose corn syrup is a thick liquid that contains two basic sugar building blocks, fructose and glucose, in roughly equal amounts. Sucrose, most familiar to consumers as table sugar, is a larger sugar molecule that breaks down into glucose and fructose in the intestine during metabolism….Today, sweeteners made from corn are the leader, racking up $4.5 billion in annual sales and accounting for 55 percent of the sweetener market. That switch largely reflects the steady growth of high-fructose corn syrup, which climbed from zero consumption in 1966 to 62.6 pounds per person in 2001.”

The OCA advised to avoid “fruit juice scams”:
Large beverage manufacturers are notorious for putting labels on their products that mislead consumers into believing that these junk-food drinks are pure fruit or else contain more juice than they really have. If you are shopping for 100% pure fruit juice, here’s how to avoid getting scammed:

*Always read the ingredient label on the back of the product. If there’s anything other than fruit juice in the product, it must be listed there.
*”Made with REAL Fruit Juice” could mean it really only has a small percentage of fruit juice.
*All beverages that imply they contain juice must declare the percentage of juice on the information label near the top of the Nutrition Facts panel.
*If a product is labeled as Fruit drink, juice beverage, juice cocktail or “ade” — the product is likely full of artificial sweeteners and contains very little juice.
*Oftentimes a “100% juice” product contains juice fillers. Read the ingredient label, and you’ll frequently find your cranberry juice, for example, is mostly apple juice.
*Keep in mind that conventional fruits and juices contain pesticide residues, and that industrial scale fruit production is an environmental disaster. Protect your health and the health of the planet by consuming organic fruits and fruit juices.

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