What Is In Your Fruit Juice?
Imagine a glass cup filled with your favourite juice staring at you on a hot day. Everything about this is good except the fact that the iced fruit juice is not exactly what you think it is.
Let’s start with a simple question: what’s your favourite fruit juice? I go first. My favourite of all would have to be apple juice. I love its crispiness and the gentle sharpness on my tongue.
My concern has only been one thing and that plays across all the food I consume. What’s in my fruit juice?
What My Fruit Juice Really Contains
Most fruit juice manufacturers sell their products to us as ” pure”, “nutritious” or “one of your 5-a-Day”. Most of us bought the idea that shop-bought fruit juices are beneficial to our health.
If you pick up a whole orange fruit and squeeze out the juice; you got yourself a healthy drink packed with valuable nutrients including vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.
However, with fruit juices from shops, the stories are different. They seem to appear in different forms and names such as from concentrates, not from concentrates, nectar etc.
Let me explain, fruit juice from concentrates is a thick, sticky syrup which is left after the juice is squeezed from fruits and the water is dried out.
