If only this information was easy to come by. Most people don't have time to look into the nitty gritty details of the foods they eat.
In reality like comp programs before we optimize on details, let's solve the biggest problems we have then when those are solved we can focus on little details here and there.
Don't drink soda/juice, Eat blueberries and fruits instread of candy/cookies. Would that not significantly improve most people's health by itself?
Juice in what form though? Whenever I buy fruit juices I avoid the ones that add sugar/HFCS in addition to the fruit juice. Does drinking orange juice with lots of pulp give you the added fiber to counter-act the fructose?
I always wonder when people mention 'juice' because the vast majority of the juices that you find in a supermarket are loaded with sugar on top of the juice itself (which may be 'from concentrate'). I always avoid these like the plague.
Doing a quick lookup in the dietary app on my phone says that 8oz of orange juice (from concentrate, with pulp) has 28g of sugar and 0g of fiber. Meanwhile a cup of raw orange (peeled) has 17g of sugar and 4g of fiber.
Based on the presenter's description of the ratio of fiber to fructose in raw fruit, I'm starting to wonder if ANY commercial juice could provide enough fiber to counter-act the fructose. I guess you could add a fiber mix or something to the juice to match the fiber/sugar ratio of the raw fruit. I personally hate the taste/flavor/texture of mixin fiber and would rather just eat the fruit.
PS. Just saw kingkongreveng_'s comment about modern fruit being bred to contain more fructose than in the past (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1008261). In that case the juice is even worse than my comparison makes it look because the sugar content of modern fruit would skew the baseline upwards.
Also, I would think that the pulp contributes fiber, no? That's why I added 'with pulp' (in addition to the fact that I like my orange juice heavy on the pulp).
I don't think so - didn't he say orange juice is filled with sucrose? Sucrose is 50-50 glucose-fructose, unless I misinterpreted that part of the video. HFCS, as I recall, is 55-45.