Toxic Apple Juice here in America

They grew up on that stuff? How are they doing now as adults? Or did they all die from the loads of arsenic?

I never let my daughter drink juice. Mostly empty calories and it's really expensive.

I never let my daughter drink juice. Mostly empty calories and it's really expensive.

Me neither. Milk and water.

Don't apple seeds have traces of arsenic? Is that were it comes from?

We are 100% juice - cranberry/OJ drinkers in my house.

Don't apple seeds have traces of arsenic? Is that were it comes from?

We are 100% juice - cranberry/OJ drinkers in my house.

Cyanide.

Makes me want to go out & buy my own seeds
and plant a garden so I KNOW EXACTLY what goes
into my food.
While i'm at it i'd better start saving money for
the cattle ranch, pig farm & chicken coop.

I juice my own apples with seeds and all. Frankly, Dr. Oz should lose the Dr. and just be called Oz, The Flim Flam Man at this point. This is the same guy who says, nay, insists, that you must exercise before 7am and NOT eat breakfast.

Then he fries sticks of butter in a pan to prove that if you eat afterwards your body will burn the calories.

Then he throws a stick of butter in another pan, that's unheated, to show how eating before breakfast isn't good because whatever random nonsense, I was busy running on the treadmill after eating breakfast and didn't have time to watch the rest. I'd be more concerned about the high sugar level, corn syrup and tool lack of nutrients by the time the apple juice is processed.

Here';s just one article debunking the dude.

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Warnings about arsenic in apple juice on The Dr. Oz Show the other day supposedly "shocked" a lot of people.

I kind of doubt it though.

The chemophobic crowd was not surprised. They were likely ready for something else to be afraid of or get mad about.

Other parents have gotten so used to these types of warnings that they likely have started to tune them out. It seems like everyone with a website or TV show can test things these days and find something to scare parents about.

The problem is that even though you can run a test doesn't mean that you can interpret the test correctly. For example, The Dr. Oz Show tested apple juice for total arsenic, while it is inorganic arsenic that is the form that is dangerous to people. The FDA states that organic arsenic is essentially harmless.

The FDA even sent The Dr. Oz Show a letter stating that "it would be irresponsible and misleading for the Dr. Oz Show to suggest that apple juice is unsafe based on tests for total arsenic."

And while the extensive nationwide investigation of The Dr. Oz Show makes it sound like this is a new issue they have uncovered, the FDA has actually been testing apple juice and other fruit juices for about six years and has found that "there is currently no evidence to suggest a public health risk from fruit juices."

Is it even a real issue though?

Dr. Oz used an "independent lab for sophisticated, state-of-the-art testing," but the FDA retested some of the same lots of apple juice and found arsenic levels "well below the results reported by The Dr. Oz Show."

It would be great if kids drank less fruit juice, as it does have sugar and calories, and kids are better off eating whole fruit. But don't avoid juice because you are afraid of some made up controversy. Stick to the recommended limits, or even less, and offer your kids more low-fat milk and water instead.

Precisly why I only let my kids drink Mountain Dew

Mine prefer Volt .....

I drank this stuff all the time as a kid and haven't had any issues due to Arsenic.

IMO Dr.Oz is a quack, looking to make a quick buck.. I wouldn't be so quick to believe what he says.