HurricaneHarvey wrote:There are 100% juices that have no sugar added. Not to say they are not filled with tons of sugar. Just no extra is add and no HFCS. But since they are always far more expensive then normal juice of any kind.
So since they can still be high on carbohydrates, because of natural fructose content (which is by the way the same fructose as in High Fructose Corn Syrup), why pay the price for it? From the dietary/weightloss point of view?
Mirrormn wrote:Aspartame! All the taste, none of the calories!
All the taste of what exactly? The aftertaste is awfoul. Can't rant enough about this shit.
Usually it's pretty obvious if you read the label properly. Most of even best juice brands would have at least some citric acid added, just as an "acidity regulator". The problem is when the chem is getting harmfull (and we don't really know when).
Years ago I watched a science show on tv, where they made a glass of OJ while talking about artificial additives and preservatices, just by mixing some chemicals, according to approved factory recipe. First they made colour and opacity, then mixed for the taste. Without a single orange in it.
And smell of bananas is simple to replicate, we've done it on chemistry classes in school. With enough effort you could fake anything.
Still, there's no place for great dissapointment. There are tons of additives in all food we get, and there's no escape. Unless you all want to live on low-tech, low-chem hippy-farm, and make all your food yourself, there will be always some chem.
And this HFCS scare looks a bit like boogeyman to me. Can't find a decent article about research prooving it being more harmfull than sugar (sugar sets the needed harmfullness level pretty high, mind you). It looks similar to "
ban DHMO" campaign, about harmfullness of dihydrogen monoxide.
Of course it's not healthy, but discovering a vast conspiracy about it is just the way of Kenji.
And everything with lots of calories will make you fat when guzzled by the gallons.
