Altogether, it's bad news for your liver and your blood sugar levels.īut wait, you say: Even though that fruit juice contains more fructose than a soda, fruit contains naturally occurring fructose. Once you drink that soda, the fructose races to your liver, and what little glucose it contains instantly spikes your blood sugar and insulin. I’ve discussed elsewhere how fructose especially becomes a troublemaker, wrecking major metabolic havoc. That’s one reason juices are worse for you than full-sugar sodas. Whereas high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) sweetened sodas are about 55% fructose, fruit juices are almost pure liquid fructose bombs. You’re not just getting more overall sugar in that glass of apple juice than you would a cola you’re also getting more fructose.
A 12-ounce can of cola, by contrast, contains 33 grams (6.6 teaspoons) of sugar. Let's look at the numbers. A 12-ounce glass of apple juice contains 39 grams or almost 8 teaspoons of sugar. Don’t you think the sugar in the juices will have a slightly different impact on your system than the whole food? Of course it will!
APPLE JUICE VS ORANGE JUICE FREE
When you turn fruit into juice, you basically unwrap it from its fiber and set it free to give you a big sugar hit, fast. You wouldn’t sit down and eat four oranges, but you could easily consume that amount in a glass of OJ.
Others expressed confusion about why fruit juice, which often parades around in grocery stores with an undeserved health halo, could really be so bad.Ĭonsider the difference between a carrot and carrot juice, an orange and orange juice. “Apple juice is worse for you than soda,” I declared on social media a while ago, unleashing a torrent of comments that I was being sensationalistic or overstating my case.
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