• @TacticsConsort
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    525 months ago

    They do have their place- just that place isn’t “something you can just drink every day without thinking about”

    • @mecfs@lemmy.world
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      35 months ago

      Unpopular opinion: The really bad ones, not talking about orange juice here, should be treated similarly to energy drinks. Banned for under 16 and taxed high.

        • BougieBirdie
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          65 months ago

          I have this argument with my wife a lot. She says that because the OJ is natural sugar it’s okay.

          But the high-fructose corn syrup used in a cola is also natural sugar in the sense that it was grown on a farm. There even happens to be less of it in your average soda than in juice.

          And I’m not really saying that you should drink soda instead of juice because it’s healthier, but somehow fruit juice is one of those things people think is good for them.

          • @ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place
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            104 months ago

            I’d argue that natural non filtered orange juice is healthier because you drink it with all the fiber from the fruit, making the sugar absorption slower. A non filtered OJ is closer to eating a fruit than those industrial ones that finely filter everything to be just a colored sugary water.

          • @AProfessional@lemmy.world
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            5 months ago

            Something I like in some of Europe is that food just has a rating on it. Not only are they stricter about food pretending to sound healthy it will just straight say this juice is a D.

            In the US every company spends millions to make their sugar appear more healthy and it works.

    • xep
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      -15 months ago

      I tried for a while to think of their place but there’s nothing I would say is absolutely necessary. What is their place?

      • @protist@mander.xyz
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        165 months ago

        They’re a dessert, treat them like you would ice cream or a chocolate bar instead of treating them like water