My mom keeps on buying these ocean spray Cran-Apple juices because according to her, they’re healthy, which I highly doubt of course.
It says 43% sugar (plus the added ones) and 100% vitamin C, which kind of has me sold but I really think they’re not as healthy as the market portrays them to be. Zero fiber, protein, and oh 80mg of sodium which consumes 3%.
Can someone explain it to me?
Fruit juice is very high in sugar and doesn’t have much else (there are better sources of vitamin C with way less sugar). It’s not terrible, but it’s a lot of calories and you’re drinking it, so your body doesn’t feel full like it would if you ate food worth the same number of calories.
That said, if your mother is metabolically healthy (no insulin resistance or diabetes) and she’s not going over her daily calories then I wouldn’t really worry about it.
Honestly speaking, if your body is lacking of sugar, it’s actually quite healthy.
You can treat it like eating watermelon, since watermelon has not much fibers but just sugar and vitamins.
Smoothie, avocado juice are healthier if you need fibre
Fruit juice works great for my mum because her health cant take too much fibre.
Fruit juice is really not a good option. Fruit juice is obviously derived from fruit which is not an issue, but all the fiber and other plant components have been taken out of it. This causes a huge blood sugar spike when we drink fruit juice, similar to how our blood sugar would spike if we drank a Coke. Obviously, these are not the exact same, but from a blood sugar standpoint it is doing very similar things. That’s why you want to eat whole fruits and avoid fruit juice.