It turns out those “Naked Juice” drinks may not be what you thought they were. Did you know this “health drink” was a PepsiCo product, and that the ingredient listed in the name of the product and shown prominently on the front of the bottle wasn’t anywhere near being the main ingredient? Or that the phrase “No Sugar Added” doesn’t mean jack shit?
I predict this lawsuit will go nowhere.
Also, the phrase “no sugar added” does mean something: it means no sugar was added to the ingredients listed.
Do you know why apple juice and orange juice is on the ingredients list but not featured on the label? It’s because, when pasteurized, they become essentially almost flavorless sugar water. Sugar as a granular substance may not be added, but sugar as in a “juice” almost totally devoid of nutritional value certainly is.
Um. Doesn’t anyone read the nutrition label? It clearly lists the amount of sugar in every bottle:
Lively Carrot: 24 g
Cool Pineapple: 30 g
Bold Beet: 40 g
Sure there may not be any sugar added, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t sugar to begin with.
Next you’re gonna tell me that Smartfood Popcorn is not smart food.
Are those even the main ingredients in their own products? In the “Lively Carrot” product, what are the top three ingredients?
I thought they were a blend of water, fruit juice, and some other stuff that I probably don’t need as long as I have a healthy diet. Looks like I was right!
I fail to see how the producer affects the nutritional content. Are you implying that if Coke made this it would have fewer calories?
I’m aware that what comes out of those bottles generally tastes like what’s on the front. Adding apple juice as a sweetener/filler is something a large percentage of fruit drinks do, so that doesn’t surprise me.
I’m aware it has a legal definition, and this product meets that definition. I’m also aware that basically any fruit beverage is going to have a lot of sugar, because newsflash, fruits have lots of sugar.
I think might have been intended for “MPSIMS” 
Although those juices are processed to “almost flavorless sugar water” it is not pasteurization, which is simply heating a liquid, the process to blame. And, of course, the reason companies do this to obtain a sweetener is because “real sugar” has become so demonized.
The truth is that without some form of sweetner these drinks would taste like steeped lawn clippings and a lot fewer people would choke them down.
Any juice is mostly water and sugar, if these folks buying this stuff for health reasons would just eat their vegetables and fruit and drink tap water they’d be far better off.
They also be a lot better off if they would learn to actually read the whole label on a food item.
I’m not sure how this should go. Obviously people should read labels, but it does sound like the company is trying to be misleading:
It sounds like everything is clearly given in the labels, but the company is trying to project an aura of healthiness that their juices don’t sound like they deserve. Also there’s the fact that it sounds like their juices are a bit more expensive then comparable drinks, which consumers pay because they think they are getting a better product.
The point is that the nutrition information clearly states they are full of sugar. That’s where people should be looking.
One day a boy and his father were walking through the woods when the son spotted some rabbit droppings.
The boy asked, ‘‘What are these Dad?’’
‘‘They’re smart pills.’’ said his father. ''Eat 'em and they’ll make you smarter."
So he ate them and said, ‘‘These taste like shit!’’
‘‘See, you’re getting smarter already.’’
They are not adding sugar to the juice, are they? Then they have not added sugar to the ingredients listed.
And part of why people think they are getting a better product is because they note that it is more expensive than other, similar products. I don’t think that is PepsiCo’s fault, tho.
Czarcasm, are you similarly concerned because Coca-Cola does not have cocaine in it, yet the name of the product clearly makes that the focus? :dubious:
And did you know that Grape-Nuts cereal has neither grapes nor nuts in it’s ingredients? Do you care? :dubious:
This is a seriously dumb basis for a lawsuit.
Honey-Nut Cheerios don’t have honey or nuts as their primary ingredients.
Vanilla ice cream isn’t mainly vanilla.
Pepperoni pizza is mostly flour and cheese.
THIS IS HOW ENGLISH WORKS. This isn’t some crazy scam. When you name products, you name them by the prominent flavor that differentiates the product from other members of its category.
The Pepsico thing is absurd as a basis for a lawsuit.
And “no added sugar” means exactly that: the only sugar you get is what occurs in ingredients like juice. Yes, juice is mostly sugar. If people don’t know that, we need to retool how we teach nutrition to the public. It’s not the job of a juice company to educate people on this matter.
The lawsuit also implies that Pepsico is fraudulently acting as though drinks like Kale Blazer are more healthful than, say, apple juice, even though apple juice is the main ingredient. Problem is, they’re right: it is healthier.
For Kale Blazer:
Vitamin A: 30%
Vitamin C: 70%
Calcium: 18%
Iron: 4%
Thiamine: 10%
Riboflavin: 20%
Vitamin B6: 12%
Compare to Minute Maid Apple Juice:
Vitamin A: 0%
Vitamin C: 180%
Calcium: 0%
Iron: 0%
Thiamine: 0%
Riboflavin: 0%
Vitamin B6: 0%
There’s a pretty reasonable case to make that Kale Blazer is more healthful than plain apple juice, and it’s likely that the kale is responsible for some of those health benefits.
Is it as healthy as a fresh kale salad? Nope. But that’s not the claim.
What the shit? I was under the impression those little granola things were the nut of the grape. Then what type of nut and from what fruit do they come?
Also you people need to educate yourselves. Juice is not “full of sugar”. That’s a marketing scam by Big Vegetable. Juice is full of the chemistry chemical “fructose”.
Which, in case you didn’t know it, is defined by chemistry as a ‘simple sugar,’ as opposed to a compound sugar like table sugar (sucrose), which is fructose + glucose. It’s also classed as a monosaccharide and a carbohydrate.
You see how hard humor is? Virtually impossible in this day and age.
Baby oil is not made from babies. Cat food is not made from cats. I feel intensely cheated.
I disagree with this premise. “Real sugar” is a marketing draw right now. But it’s for regular colas that are expected to have sugar calories in them.
But in the case of these products which are supposed to have some health benefit the statement “no sugar added” is misleading.