You can buy 100% orange juice from Minute Maid, but watch out for the Cranberry Grape.
After my son’s gym class last night, he and I stopped for a bag of chips and some juice, our little ritual. I happened to glance at the nutrition info on the label. “25% fruit juice.” Say what?
I looked at my son’s apple juice. 100% apple juice, made from concentrate. Ingredients: pure filtered water, apple juice concentrate. Okay, so far, so good.
Cranberry grape contains pure filtered water, sweeteners (high fructose corn syrup, sugar), apple, cranberry and grape juices from concentrate, less than 1% of: natural flavors, citric acid (provides tartness) vitamin C (ascorbic acid), grape skin extract (for color).
So basically I’m drinking purple sugar water with apple in it. And then because they apparently put in too much sugar, they added a little citric acid to balance the flavor.
Dr. Atkins would have told me to have a Miller Lite instead. Miller Lite has 3.2 carbs and 96 calories. Or I could have been drinking a Coca Cola. At least then I get some fizz and caffeine and a refreshing cola taste. A 21oz soda (fast food size) has 200 calories, 30 mg of sodium and 54g of sugar.
My juice? First, the container laughingly says two servings per container. I just consumed 300 calories, 40mg of sodium, 78g total carb including 76g sugars. I'm getting fatter from drinking healthy.
