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> Maybe some Vitamin C?! Orange juice is 71% vitamin C!

Not it's not 71% vitamin C, it's about 0.05% vitamin C.

125 ml of orange juice provides about 71% of the daily vitamin C needs (60 mg), which is probably what you meant but very different from what you actually said.

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Yes, it's what I meant but it will be lost on so many people.

Maybe you need to be a little less "sureaboutthis"

But even what you meant is wrong. When you remove the juice from the fiber (orange, apple, mango, etc) it becomes a sugary drink [0]. Added sugar doesn't mean anything, sugar is sugar is sugar [1]. By removing the fiber the overload of sugar the liver has to deal with is no different than drinking soda. While fruit juice may have a few minor benefits here and there research is stating that it's not healthy outside of small quantity. Parents give their kids (at least in the US) way too much juice [2] and it's become a learned habit as kids grow up to drink juice because they've been told it's healthy. What they weren't taught was healthy rationing.

[0] https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/fruit-juice-is-just-as-...

[1] https://sugarscience.ucsf.edu/the-growing-concern-of-overcon...

[2] https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/childrens-healt...

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