Tropicana Pure Premium Original
|
Per 100ml |
Actual Percentage |
|
|---|---|---|
| Calories | 48Kcal | |
| Protein | 0.8g | 0.8% |
| Carbohydrates | 10g | 83.3% |
| -of which sugars | 10g | (83.3%) |
| Fat | 0g | 0% |
| -of which saturates | 0g | 0% |
| Fibre | 0.7g | 0% |
| Sodium/Salt | 0g | 0% |
| Vitamin C | 32mg | RDA = 40% |
The crazy truth about this 100% Pure Orange Juice is that a massive 83% of it is SUGAR!
The 10 grams of SUGAR is equivalent to TWO teaspoons of sugar per 100ml
We won’t be analyzing every orange juice drink here but you get the point. The sugar content looks deceiving from the label, however, this carton has a whole bunch of sugar in it. You can understand why they do not want you to show you the actual percentage, although we think they should. So, because they don’t show you, we’ll show you how to calculate it yourself.
Key Fact: Carbohydrate consist of 4 kcal per 1g
Now we know that, we can get to calculating the actual percentage of sugar in our fruit juice drink.
Step 1: Multiply the Weight in grams of carbohydrate by 4 (the energy content of 1 g)
in this example: 10 x 4 = 40
Step 2: Divide the number of step 1 by the total number of calories in the product.
in this example: 40/48 = 0.83
Step 3: Multiply that result by 100 to give you the percentage of sugar in your fruit juice drink.
in this example: 0.83 x 100 = 83%