Is fruit juice bad for you and your children?

UC Davis ^ | JULY 19, 2019 | Staff

[9YearLurker]

Unfortunately not good for you (or our obese kids).

Far better to keep it in the whole food for direct consumption. (And no, I wasn’t so keen on that as a kid either.)

[Wuli]

The whole fruit is better than just the juice.

[Moltke]

I mix 100% fruit juice 1:1 ~ 2:1 with water. Still plenty of flavor, and more refreshing.

[Brian Griffin]

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.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

I used to do that with grape juice, not so much other kinds. These days I seldom drink juice or soda at all. Water’s always good.

[Red Badger]

>>>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

[Red Badger]

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2010/03/22/sweet-problem-princeton-researchers-find-high-fructose-corn-syrup-prompts

[RoosterRedux]

It’s high in sugar. I avoid it. That said, I use a lot of lemons in cooking and occasionally eat a grapefruit.

[Red Badger]

Grapefruit can interfere with blood pressure meds.

Check here:

BRAVE AI

Grapefruit and Blood Pressure Meds

Grapefruit can interfere with blood pressure medications, potentially leading to dangerous fluctuations in blood pressure levels.

This interaction occurs because grapefruit affects the enzymes responsible for breaking down these medications, which can result in higher drug levels in the bloodstream.

Calcium channel blockers: Grapefruit can increase the levels of calcium channel blockers like nifedipine and felodipine in the body, which may cause a significant drop in blood pressure.

Other blood pressure medications: Grapefruit can also interact with other types of blood pressure medications, such as losartan and eplerenone, potentially leading to either too much or too little of the drug in the bloodstream.

Alternatives: For patients taking medications that interact with grapefruit, there are often alternative drugs available that do not have this interaction. For example, amlodipine (Norvasc) is a calcium channel blocker that does not interact with grapefruit.

It is important to consult with a healthcare provider before consuming grapefruit or grapefruit juice while taking any blood pressure medication.

[woodbutcher1963]

My former GP Dr used to have the amount of sugar packets contained inside a 12 oz can of Coke and a similar size bottle of Orange Juice. They were all taped together hanging down from the side of the cabinet in the exam room. It was almost the same. Although, most Coke sold in the USA has corn syrup instead of cane sugar.

Basically, I blame Anita Bryant. She advertised for the Florida OJ growers. Up until then our moms let us kids drink Hi C, Hawaiian Punch, and Tang. All those drink s that were GOOD for you. The guys that went to the moon drank Tang. It had to be good for you. They had the Right Stuff.

[RoosterRedux]

Yep. But I manage my BP with keto and exercise.

[Wilum]

Wow! I could have had a V8!

[Bon of Babble]

Stopped drinking fruit juice years ago - it is a blast of sugar to the system.

At least with whole fruit, you get fiber which slows down the sugar.

Coming from a family of diabetics, none of us need that sugar blast - not sure anyone does.

[Openurmind]

lol...

[miniTAX]

“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.”

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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.

[Deaf and Discerning]

Too much of anything is bad... including water. Just ask the fish—drowning in their own poop.

[Openurmind]

“Stopped drinking fruit juice years ago - it is a blast of sugar to the system.

At least with whole fruit, you get fiber which slows down the sugar.

Coming from a family of diabetics, none of us need that sugar blast - not sure anyone does.”

Sugars are carbohydrates, and your body needs carbs and sugars. Your brain requires around 130 grams of glucose every day to ensure it operates smoothly. Energy from carbs is essential to your body’s function.

It is recommended that you get less than 150 calories a day from added sugars, which is about 36 grams of sugar. To put it in perspective, a 12 oz. of cola has around 40 grams of sugar. Getting your daily sugars from whole foods like fruits and vegetables provides you with more nutrients than a can of soda. So, choose your sugars wisely.‌

https://www.webmd.com/diet/whats-the-difference-between-sucrose-and-fructose

[miniTAX]

“Coming from a family of diabetics, none of us need that sugar blast - not sure anyone does.”

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It’s not just sugar, it’s all carbs that is toxic.
No human needs carbs just as no human needs smoking. If not for addiction, there is ZERO physiological need for carbs.

Remove all carbs from our diet, just like any human without agriculture did and still does and all modern “chronic” diseases like diabete, alzheimer, hypertension, heart disease will disappear. The carnivore movement is the living proof of that simple fact.

[miniTAX]

“Your brain requires around 130 grams of glucose every day to ensure it operates smoothly. Energy from carbs is essential to your body’s function.”

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We carnivores eat ZERO carbs, yet our brain works perfectly. Your number of 130 g/day of glucose may be true, but only with a standard diet, which proves to have been devastating to our health in term of chronic diseases and obesity.
It’s totally false in ketosis, when your brain mostly use ketones which are a much better (no inflammation) fuel than glucose, that’s why carnivore is known for solving brain diseases like epilepsy, brain fog, Alzheimer...
So no, energy from carbs is NOT essential, neither for the brain, nor for the body (a lot of high performance athletes are carnivores, see eg Dr Paul Mason testimonies).

Carbs are a subpar food for humans. The idea they would be “essential” to us is baloney (pardon the pun given that baloney is better than any carbs possible), if not borderline criminal considering the official guidelines still recommend them for diabete patients.