Unless you’re looking for Apple or grape juice specifically, this is what you get. I’ve long decided to avoid juices as a result. If I want a sugar water packet, I just pack a honeycrisp apple, orange, Asian pear, plum, or a slightly overripe bartlett pear.

It is approx 9 teaspoons of sugar per 300ml bottle. Typical tea ~~cup~~ mug is 250-300ml. Imagine putting 9 teaspoons of sugar in your tea or coffee. Fucking gross.

There's juice that's literally labelled in big huge text 100% juice, not from concentrate on the front of the bottle.

Meanwhile in Canada

Then look left 2 feet and buy anything but this trash.

Skill issue.

Such a fucking scam. I'm ok with "juice from concentrate", but this is literally more HFCS than juice. There should be no HFCS in juice; real juice has plenty of sugar all on its own.

"family farmer owned"

Buy fruit..

These things have so much fucking sugar in them it's actually crazy. I had one for the first time ever about a month ago (apple flavor I think) and it was so sweet I don't think I was able to even finish the thing. It's insane. I had no clue they were this over-sweetened based on how often I've seen the brand and I genuinely don't know how anyone drinks this stuff.

If in the USA, look for "100%[fruit] juice" in easily readable font.

All you need to do is read the label. Which you should always do for everything you buy.

Part of this I believe can be attributed to labelling rules. Only the concentrate portion can be called juice.

When it is made from concentrate the reconstituting water is the main ingredient. What's shitty is that water gets more and more sugar/HFCS mixed in so less concentrate is used. Getting it down to 10% or less like that: it's just flavoring the corn.

Aye, USA famously have terrible consumer rights so they can get away with shite like this

EU and UK (for now) have stuff like the Square Bananas act and the False Advertising act where this would be classified as illegally lying to the consumers and get the product taken off of shelves.

We even for USA imports have this policy that they must have their ingredients list covered by a more accurate sticker

100% passion fruit juice? I shudder.

I don't know how the law is where you are, but around here there's a clear and simple word for 100% juice. But we also have the "juice drink". It's a little sad because people who don't bother with such things will fall for it over and over. But once you know the verbiage it's simple enough.

What really fucks me up is how little juice there is in it, and how much fructose syrup. 😡 It's possible to produce affordable drinks that don't add any sugar. Apple or grape juice concentrate is cheap.

The "100%" on the front is very tricksy and wouldn't fly in the EU.

It was deliberately put there to trick people into thinking 100% fruit content, but it's actually whatever they could find in there that had anything to do with 100%.

Here, there's always the fruit content up front, wether it's 1%, 10%, 50% or 100%

Just means you get corn juice in addition to all those fruit juices.

The "drink" part of the description is the give away. 66% sugar, faaaark, diabetes in a bottle. Fuck that shit.

Buy real fruit and a juicer and make juice. Or buy frozen concentrates and make juice (concentrates are just condensed juice frozen for longevity). Or just eat fruit. So many options that arent sugar water.

But for real, the reason things like this exist, apart from being cheaper to produce, is that shelf stable juices that dont lose all flavor over time is sometimes basically impossible. And fresher juices that arent shelf stable either will be heavily seasonal or need to be green house grown for off season which is rarely worth the overhead.

Slight tangent and fun fact, the old joke "why is lemonade made with artificial flavoring but floor cleaner is made with real lemons?" Actually has a legit answer. Check a not-from-concentrate bottle of orange juice at the grocery and you should see that it contains artificial flavors, even though it also contains real juice. There is a reason for that. Citrus juices can be preserved long term to make the supply of juices available year round. However, the flavor compounds in citrus juices oxidize overtime making it blander and blander. It will be fine to drink, but it will not taste like an orange/lemon/lime/etc. So they have to add that flavor back in with artificial flavorings. And the reason that floor cleaner has real lemon is that its properties that make it clean well are not diminished by long term storage.