Are you drinking real juice or fake juice?
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 labels can be very misleading.” What is NOT Juice: J