> if I cut up some oranges and squeeze the juice into a cup I can't give it to my kid
Nobody was seriously arguing against fresh-squeezed juices (especially when served with the pulp).
Nobody was seriously arguing against fresh-squeezed juices (especially when served with the pulp).
Yes they are.
And when it comes down to it a little bit of fiber especially when something has been aggressively mashed up, doesn't make your orange juice all that different from a Mtn Dew. Fructose is fructose and no amount of magical extras is going to make that big of a difference on its metabolic effects.
I say that but I'm not advocating you to not drink juice. Just balance your inputs.
Fruit has also been bred to be much sweeter and less nutritious than it was 50 years ago, so there's that too.
Moderation is the key to everything.
A reasonable way to look at it is as a flat, fortified Mountain Dew. Great as a treat. Bad as a habit, at least with modern oranges.
Of course not. But a kid raised on a high-sugar diet, particularly if reïnforced repetitively through habit, is going to have a tougher time eating healthy than someone who learned to see sugary drinks as a treat.
You’re separating liquids from solids. They each have their merits. The problem is industrial fruit produces a juice that is unlike anything in nature vis-à-vis sugar content.
Please explain how the two sugar waters are different.
I said industrialised fruit to refer to the orange. They’re much sweeter now than even in the 60s. There isn’t a practical difference between store-bought and fresh-squeezed juice (that I know of) other than, in some cases, preservatives, and the fact that with fresh-squeezed juice you have a tactile measure of the fruit going into the squeeze and so don’t tend to have e.g. a kid pouring themselves a tall glass of orange juice representing the juice of ten oranges.