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| Some Inconvenient Facts on National Orange Juice Day Posted: 04 May 2012 07:32 AM PDT New here? Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! You gotta love these made up holidays marketers come up with to promote consumption of this or that product. Well, today is OJ day. We thought it would be a good opportunity to point out some inconvenient facts: 1. Orange juice contains as much sugar as a Coke. An 8 ounce cup has just under 6 teaspoons worth. 2. Although the sugar in orange juice is naturally occurring, by juicing an orange we lose the naturally occurring fiber as well as other nutrients. In many cases vitamin C is lost and needs to be added back to the juice. 3. You need to eat 2-3 oranges to get the same amount of sugar as in a one cup serving of orange juice. 4. The American Heart Association should read it’s own science about excess sugar and its contribution to disease before adding it’s health check certification to orange juice. That said, we’d drink a glass of OJ any day over a carbonated soft drink. But please understand that even 100% fruit juice is nutritionally closer to a soft drink than to a real piece of fruit. For more info, read Squeezed: What You Don’t Know About Orange Juice What to do at the supermarket: BEST: Buy and eat oranges. NEXT BEST: Buy and squeeze the oranges yourself for fresh juice with the highest nutrient count. ELSE: Buy juice NOT FROM CONCENTRATE (ensures your OJ hasn’t been sitting in a giant cooled vat for 9 months) Get Fooducated: Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/fooducate on facebook: facebook.com/fooducate      |
| Attention Trader Joe’s: Hire a Dietitian Posted: 04 May 2012 05:32 AM PDT New here? Get Fooducated with our iPhone or Android App! Or try Fooducate on the Web! A big thanks to Carol Harvey for taking these pictures at her local Trader Joe’s earlier this week. They have signs in the produce department pointing out the alleged nutritional benefits of various fruits and veggies. One word: Embarrassing! 1. Tomatoes have almost no calcium. 2. Apples are just barely a “good” source of C (even less if they have been sitting around, as most apples do), but definitely not an “excellent” source (20% or higher of the recommended daily consumption). 3. Lastly, vitamin D is zip, unless lots of bacteria are on the outside making it. Yuk. Thanks Carol, for correcting one of the signs Get Fooducated: Follow us on twitter: twitter.com/fooducate on facebook: facebook.com/fooducate
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