Did you think Orange Juice was good for you?

by doctorjeal
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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%
We have added the “Actual Percentage” Column, this is not on food labels. We have added it to represent the value of that ingredient in the percentage of the product.  The producers would only ever show you this if it was a good thing like “Vitamin C”

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%

REMEMBER TO THINK BEFORE YOU DRINK, HIDDEN SUGAR IS EVERYWHERE!
 

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