Disappointed

[poliphilo]

Ailz- who has been educating herself on the skulduggery perpetrated by food companies and supermarkets- tells me the "fresh" orange juice I drink for breakfast contains as much sugar as coca-cola and is quite as worthless nutritionally. "Basically, just sugar water," she says.

And I thought I was doing myself so much good...

Comments

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

Unless you pick the oranges off the tree like we do and squeeze the juice yourself, adding nothing to it, you won't get 100% unadulterated orange juice. (Or buy the oranges at the supermarket and squeeze them yourself...)

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Or buy the oranges and eat them! That way you get all the nutrients and the fibre makes you feel more satisfied.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

Yes, indeed. But I live in an orange belt here in Spain and I know a lot of people who don't like to peel oranges as odd as that may sound. So they juice them and eat the remaining pulp in the juicer with a spoon.
:)

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

That's the answer, of course. And I do also buy oranges and eat them as they are.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed.

[craftyailz.livejournal.com]

Even then the fact that you are taking out the fibre makes it sugar water - with a nice flavour - fructose needs the fibre to work healthily. Which is part of the problem for obesity - lots of glucose/fructose and very little fibre.

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

Yes, I know. And that's why I say that here in Spain, many people juice the oranges and then eat the remaining pulp from those oranges. I peel and eat the oranges from our trees but some people are too fussy about getting their fingers sticky. LOL