I get that it says “flavored juice drink” now, but I was tired and the text is pretty small.
“Fruit snacks” are so much worse. It’s just candy, and inferior in taste and texture to anything made with actual fruit.
Unless you’re looking for Apple or grape juice specifically, this is what you get. I’ve long decided to avoid juices as a result. If I want a sugar water packet, I just pack a honeycrisp apple, orange, Asian pear, plum, or a slightly overripe bartlett pear.
It is approx 9 teaspoons of sugar per 300ml bottle. Typical tea cup mug is 250-300ml. Imagine putting 9 teaspoons of sugar in your tea or coffee. Fucking gross.
Such a fucking scam. I'm ok with "juice from concentrate", but this is literally more HFCS than juice. There should be no HFCS in juice; real juice has plenty of sugar all on its own.
"family farmer owned"
Pure passion fruit juice would probably cost you 10-20$ per liter and it would be waaay too concentrated.
All you need to do is read the label. Which you should always do for everything you buy.
These things have so much fucking sugar in them it's actually crazy. I had one for the first time ever about a month ago (apple flavor I think) and it was so sweet I don't think I was able to even finish the thing. It's insane. I had no clue they were this over-sweetened based on how often I've seen the brand and I genuinely don't know how anyone drinks this stuff.
There's juice that's literally labelled in big huge text 100% juice, not from concentrate on the front of the bottle.
If in the USA, look for "100%[fruit] juice" in easily readable font.
Meanwhile in Canada
100% passion fruit juice? I shudder.
I don't know how the law is where you are, but around here there's a clear and simple word for 100% juice. But we also have the "juice drink". It's a little sad because people who don't bother with such things will fall for it over and over. But once you know the verbiage it's simple enough.
What really fucks me up is how little juice there is in it, and how much fructose syrup. 😡 It's possible to produce affordable drinks that don't add any sugar. Apple or grape juice concentrate is cheap.
Part of this I believe can be attributed to labelling rules. Only the concentrate portion can be called juice.
When it is made from concentrate the reconstituting water is the main ingredient. What's shitty is that water gets more and more sugar/HFCS mixed in so less concentrate is used. Getting it down to 10% or less like that: it's just flavoring the corn.
Aye, USA famously have terrible consumer rights so they can get away with shite like this
EU and UK (for now) have stuff like the Square Bananas act and the False Advertising act where this would be classified as illegally lying to the consumers and get the product taken off of shelves.
We even for USA imports have this policy that they must have their ingredients list covered by a more accurate sticker
The "drink" part of the description is the give away. 66% sugar, faaaark, diabetes in a bottle. Fuck that shit.
Just means you get corn juice in addition to all those fruit juices.
Then look left 2 feet and buy anything but this trash.
Skill issue.
Buy fruit..
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