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If you think high-fructose corn syrup is bad, then you should think fruit juice is bad too, as it typically contains fruit sugar - fructose.

There is a reason people are pear-shaped.

Fruit most commonly ripens in late summer and early fall. To capture and hold on to nature’s once a year bounty, humans are probably biologically arranged to store it up.

Fruit juice should be removed from SNAP and WIC program coverage.

>>>To capture and hold on to nature’s once a year bounty, humans are probably biologically arranged to store it up.<<<

I have been saying this for years.

It’s not that it’s ‘sweet’ it’s how our bodies react to it:

Body ingests a molecule of sugar and it says: “This is sugar, therefore energy! I can use it immediately!”

Body ingests a molecule of HFCS and it says: “This is fructose! Must be late Summer or early Autumn. Need to store it for those lean Winter months ahead. I’ll stick it in my butt!”...............

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFuSidBaf7k

“Fruit most commonly ripens in late summer and early fall. To capture and hold on to nature’s once a year bounty, humans are probably biologically arranged to store it up.”

Nice theory, but just a theory.
You are talking about modern fruits, which are essentially candies on trees. But original fruits were mostly unedible, choke full of natural pesticides and anti-nutrients, available just some days in the whole year and visited by worms and birds before humans could get a hand on, which means we ate nearly no fruit.
So NO, humans are not biologically “arranged” to process fruits. Contrary to other carbs, we can’t use fructose for energy or store it directly, all the workload must be done by the liver. So we can barely tolerate it and only in hunger mode. When food is abundant and constant, fructose is toxic, whether it’s in “whole food” (another nutritional baloney) or in juice. It’s basic and established physiological science backed up clinical experience: got fatty liver? Stop carbs, especially fructose and fatty liver, gone.