New orange juice rating lines up with the science, but the stars don’t align for some – ABC News

A decision to rate 100 per cent orange juice as less healthy than diet cola has prompted fierce debate among parents, dieticians and juice industry representatives about why the change was needed.
A glass of OJ or a piece of fruit?

• Fruit is changed when it is pulverised into juice and is no longer equivalent to whole fresh fruit
• Natural sugars in juice (mostly fructose with some sucrose) are absorbed more quickly into the bloodstream than those in whole fruit
• Juice can have about twice the calories…

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