Juice?

I dont drink much juices anymore cause Im trying to stay under my calorie goal so Im just drinking nothing but water all day long! Should I be drinking any type of juice like orange, apple, or cranberry for any reason? What kind of juice do you drink if you do?

Eating the fruit is better, because fruit juice (even 100% fruit juice with no ADDED sugar) has separated the sugars from a good bit of the healthy components of the fruit, like the fiber and some of the vitamins.

However, if for whatever reason you cannot manage the actual fruit, either due to medical reasons or convenience, do what you gotta do to get the nutrients you need. Just try really hard to find actual fruit juices and not froot (my generic term for things that say "fruit" but don't actually contain much, if any), and keep in mind that you are not benefiting as fully from the juice as you would have from the real thing.

And if you make your own juice with a juice machine, do yourself a favor. Dump the juice down the sink (it's got most of the sugars) and eat the contents of the gunk bin (it's got most of the nutrients).

All the storebought juice has extra sugars in it.

No they don't.

Yes they do.

so the ones that say "100% juice -- no added sugars" are lying? i bet the FDA would just let that slide...

http://www.healthytimesblog.com/2011/08/the-secret-ingredient-in-orange-juice-is-not-orange/

Where is the actual sources? I can see just see opinions and no actual proof.

so the ones that say "100% juice -- no added sugars" are lying? i bet the FDA would just let that slide...

They're not lying, but they are mixing the juice you think you are drinking with other juices that are higher in sugar.

Case in point:

http://www.oceanspray.com/Products/Juices/100-Juice/Cranberry-Blend.aspx

Yes, it's got cranberry. Yes, it's 100% juice. But precious little of the actual juice is cranberry juice - you'd know it if it was because cranberries are TART, at about the level of pure lime juice, and few people would actually drink it straight.

So is it 100% juice? Yes. Mostly apple and grape juice, then a little cranberry juice concentrate mixed with a lot of water to cut the tartness.

With some of the others, like "Cranberry Juice Cocktail", they add sugar beet juice and sugar cane juice. Not sugar, technically, because they are juice. Right?

Juice is bad, the fructose in it turns instantly to fat.

At least I got a giggle out of this :P

so the ones that say "100% juice -- no added sugars" are lying? i bet the FDA would just let that slide...

They're not lying, but they are mixing the juice you think you are drinking with other juices that are higher in sugar.

Case in point:

http://www.oceanspray.com/Products/Juices/100-Juice/Cranberry-Blend.aspx

Yes, it's got cranberry. Yes, it's 100% juice. But precious little of the actual juice is cranberry juice - you'd know it if it was because cranberries are TART, at about the level of pure lime juice, and few people would actually drink it straight.

So is it 100% juice? Yes. Mostly apple and grape juice, then a little cranberry juice concentrate mixed with a lot of water to cut the tartness.

With some of the others, like "Cranberry Juice Cocktail", they add sugar beet juice and sugar cane juice. Not sugar, technically, because they are juice. Right?

I drink real cranberry juice straight, it is VERY sour. Not a whole lot of sugar in real cranberry juice!

To actually answer the OP – No, there is no reason you have to drink juice, especially if you are eating whole fruit, unless you want to drink juice. The only reason I could see drinking juice (other than because you like it) is if it’s fortified with other nutrients you can’t seem to get from whole foods. For example, vegans often drink orange juice fortified with calcium and vitamin D because their diet might be lower in these nutrients.

Not wasting my calories on juice. I'll eat real fruit instead.

FTR...I freakin love juice.

I actually deliberately stopped drinking juice, odd exception aside, and I LOVE fruit juice. Can't be bothered to pull up the study right now but if you look there is one that shows that your body doesn't calculate any liquid calories into how much food you need. Eat fruit instead.

I actually deliberately stopped drinking juice, odd exception aside, and I LOVE fruit juice. Can't be bothered to pull up the study right now but if you look there is one that shows that your body doesn't calculate any liquid calories into how much food you need. Eat fruit instead.

I'm interested. Going to try and search for the study.

But I am a little confused what you mean by "doesn't calculate any liquid calories into how much food you need"
can you explain a tad bit more?

Which is why it's not that difficult to read the label and pick out 100% cranberry juice...I don't see what people don't understand about it? If you want Cranberry without any other juices, just get cranberry. If you want juice without anything added in (which is what I always get) look for 100% juice located either on the FRONT or the SIDE of the bottle. If you don't se it on the front it will be on the side at the very top of the nutrition label. Simply make sure it says 100% and not like 27% and you're good. it's pretty basic...

Post me one name brand of 100% actual cranberry juice that you'd buy in a supermarket.

Trust me, I've bought the real thing to deal with UTI's. It's not something you want to drink. Cranberries are extremely tart, and proper cranberry juice makes straight lemon juice seem sweet.

Are you kidding me? 100% Cranberry juice is great! I actually had a doctor tell me I had to get real cranberry juice for a UTI, and when I told him I already have it and drink it often he told me "I'm not talking about Cranberry cocktail" and I said NEITHER AM I.

Trader Joes and Whole foods both sell it.

I used to get these really high potency cranberry capsules and I would bite them and suck out the oh so "bitter" cranberry, twice a day. nothing in them but cranberry.

Oh, and is your orange juice is made from concentrate then it most definitley contains formaldehyde, same stuff used to perserve bodies. They have their way of putting stuff in and make it look good, like vitamin D being used as perservative etc. If you can open a bottle, backwash into it, put it in a drawer for a month and it doesn't spoil there's only one name for it - poison.

Oh, and is your orange juice is made from concentrate then it most definitley contains formaldehyde, same stuff used to perserve bodies. They have their way of putting stuff in and make it look good, like vitamin D being used as perservative etc. If you can open a bottle, backwash into it, put it in a drawer for a month and it doesn't spoil there's only one name for it - poison.

My bottle of water is poison?