Labels on many fruit drinks misleading. If it says juice on a label it should, in my opinion, contain pure fruit juice.

The label is what always catches our eye first. And when its got pictures of fruits and the actual word juice, you are obviously going to think that you are buying a nice and healthy drink with a high percentage of real fruit juice. We tend to think that anything with fruit in is good for us.

Sadly this very often isn’t the case. The drinks packaging is so misleading that the pure juice you think you are drinking is anything but.

When you check the labels carefully for the proportion of actual juice in the drink, you may find one or two with 40-50%, but the vast majority contains a lot less.

When you decided to try and get fit, I bet one of the first things you did was cut out sugary food and drinks, including soda. I also bet that you haven’t realized that you have replaced them with these misleading drinks that are even worse for us than soda was! Check out the ingredients if you don’t believe me, you were better off with your soda!

All fruits have natural sugars; that is part of why we enjoy them so much, their sweetness. The only sugar we need are these natural sugars and no extra, yet the amount that we are consuming via these drinks is staggering. If the percentage of actual juice is 30%, the other 70% is made up of all manner of additives, and most of them are sugar under different names.

We need to get the word out and make people aware. Awareness is improving, but at a very slow rate, so the majority is still unaware of the possible problem they could be causing ho their health by consuming these drinks. These drinks are not healthy alternatives and the sooner everybody knows that, the better!

Juice is juice is juice, so only buy pure fruit juice with a percentage of 100%. Ignore blends, cocktails, drinks, concentrates, these aren’t pure and will contain all the ingredients that we discussed earlier.

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