Are you drinking real juice or fake juice?
So often I hear people say they had some juice to drink and when I ask them what juice, they respond with lemonade or a fruit punch. Neither lemonade or fruit punch are real juice but mostly sugar water. Students in my class have to keep a 24-hour record of all the foods and beverages they eat. They then put the foods and beverages into the right food group. A student put a well-known brand of fruit punch under fruit as she thought it was a juice. I looked up the ingredients and there was actually no fruit and no juice in this beverage. It was just flavored sugar water. This student actually had no fruit or juice in her diet that day. How do you know if what you are drinking is real juice? Consumer Reports has a great article, Decoding Fruit Juice Labels that helps you understand what is real juice, part juice and just flavored sugar water. 100% Juice – this is the healthy choice as it is all juice with no added suga...