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Are you drinking real juice or fake juice?

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Growing up it was common for people to have a glass of juice with breakfast.   If you eat the hotel breakfast, they usually offer a selection of juices.   Today, many people eat a grab-and-go breakfast and never think about drinking some real juice.   Or, they buy what they think is “real juice” and have a glass of what really isn’t juice.   In fact, some “juice” people drink has no juice in it at all.   Are you drinking real or fake juice?   A student in my class told me they bought SunnyD for their family to drink as their “juice’.   When I said Sunny D isn’t real, 100% juice, the student commented, “But it is cheaper than juice”.   Yes, it is cheaper because so little of it is real juice.   It is mostly sugar water. Consumer Reports has a good article, Decoding Fruit Juice Labels .    And one really has to look at the label to find out if it is real juice, some juice or no juice.   As the CR nutritionist notes, “Juice...