Right, why get empty calories and carbs from a soda when you can get calories, carbs, vitamins, and fiber from a juice?
Okay, maybe I need a little more ignorance fighting wrt the chemistry of sugars, but my understanding is that HFCS is actually a combination of fructose and glucose, which in excessive amounts can contribute to diabetes And that your body readily converts fructose into the glucose that it needs, so excess glucose can kick insulin production into overdrive. As I said, what I think I know may not actually be correct, so feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. I’m not actually a diabetic, but I’ve seen the damage it can wreak in others and it does concern me.
And I realize this has nothing to do with teeth, but just another reason to limit soda consumption by children. Sorry for the hijack.
Even the Vitamin C is dubious, unless you’re squeezing it fresh. Vitamin C degrades over time, and not very much time, even in frozen concentrates. Here’s one study, full of big sciencey words, which boils down, best I can tell to, “yep, Vitamin C breaks down, sure does, no matter how cold we keep it.” So while it might have had 100% or more of your PVD for Vit C when they packed it, it probably has less than 20% by the time you drink it.
Floridajuice.com lists no fiber at all in the average orange juice. Tropicana’s new Pure Premium Essentials Fiber orange juice adds in sawdust to get you up to 3 grams of fiber - the same as the fiber in one orange.
Our pediatrician’s opinion is simple: “Juice is just as bad as pop. Limit both of them the same.” Enjoy the juice in really moderate moderation, but it should be an adjunct to a healthy diet, not part of it. We tell our kids, of candy and juice/pop: “Food is what you eat when you’re hungry, and water’s what you drink when you’re thirsty. Candy, pop and juice are special treats you have sometimes because they *taste *good, not because you’re hungry.”
Thanks for the info, WhyNot. I stand corrected. I had thought the pulp added dietary fiber, but apparently not. Our favorite juices in this household are the Bolthouse Farms Green Goodness and Vanilla Chai. They are on the expensive side, so they are generally treated as a treat, but they are a much healthier choice for a treat than soda or juices that aren’t much more than water+HFCS+apple/grape juice. Juice shopping is so hard on a parent. Kids don’t ‘get’ labels, nor do they care much.
Oh, nom-nom-nom! That’s one of my favorite juice blends EVAH! It’s like liquidey green crack, that stuff is! (And I’m not normally a fan of the green drink group.)
Wow, seriously? I read the first half of that sentence and guessed that you were going to say that two cans wasn’t very much at all!
When I was a kid, I drank at the very least, two 32oz. Big Gulps a day. My parents didn’t bother trying to limit my intake.
I paid for it, too. Every time I’d get a new dentist, the first thing he’d say upon looking at my teeth was “You sure drink a lot of Coke, don’t you?”
When I was 12, a dentist told me “If you keep this up, you’ll have dentures by the time you’re 21.” Naturally, I knew better, so I kept it up. About two months past my 21st birthday was when I was fitted for a full set of dentures…
My exhub (my kids dad) had a full set shortly before the age of 30. He lived off Mt Dew & didnt take care of his teeth. Needless to say, our kisses consisted of pecks only (I couldnt imagine french kissing someone who neglects their mouth & contents)
do you regret not taking care of your teeth? Were they expensive? Did you pay for them or parents? Do you think if your parents would have been making your drink choices for you that this wouldve made a difference?
I am pretty sure it does. Per wiki, a single orange has 2.4G of fiber. However, much of that is lost when the organge is juiced, although OJ with pulp still has some ( I get different figures when searching, sorry, but it’s a gram or less) and other good stuff. A whole orange is best, followed by OJ with pulp.
