Drinking one glass or more of 100% fruit juice each day is associated with weight gain in children and adults, according to a new analysis of 42 previous studies.
The research, published Tuesday in JAMA Pediatrics, found a positive association between drinking 100% fruit juice and BMI — a calculation that takes into account weight and height — among kids. It also found an association between daily consumption of 100% fruit juice with weight gain among adults.
100% fruit juice was defined as fruit juices with no added sugar.
I was raised to dilute it with water to get “more” of it.
Something interesting is that the article doesn’t differentiate between “from concentrate” and “fresh juice”.
It’s “no added sugar” metric is flawed too because that likely doesn’t count Aspartame, or other alternative sweeteners, as the Nutrition facts do not count them as sugar either.
no added sugar is true - but it doesn’t consider that 100% fruit juice has a metric SHIT TON of natural sugar in it. A glass of 100% orange juice is roughly the equivalent of something like 6-8 oranges.
As someone who was also raised to dilute it.
Thanks to shrinkflation they are already diluting it. It tastes water thin before you water it down, and it’s still all sugar water.
That’s because aspartame has not got the health impacts of sugar. It isn’t sugar. So if you added aspartame, you’re not adding sugar.
No sugar added also means they can pour in concentrated pear juice as an ingredient and earn the label while having just the same amount of sugar as the same volume of soda.
And believe it or not, fructose is even harder for the body to process than sucrose and can lead to fatty liver issues.