"family farmer owned"

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.

Meanwhile in Canada

Cheap fruit drinks have been this way for the last half century, probably longer.

There's not going to be a major health difference between chugging this shit and fruit juice in terms of how much sugar you're taking in, your body doesn't really care where the sugar comes from, it acts the same inside you. An 8 ounce glass of Welche's Corn Syrup versus an 8 ounce glass of fresh squeezed orange juice are both going to be basically 8 ounces of candy. The orange juice just has more vitamin C and maybe some pulp to slow down the sugar spike in your blood if that's an issue for you.

"Real" fruit juices might have added vitamins or even some amount of fiber, but fruit juice is generally not a healthy drink. It's an alternative to other things like soda or alcohol but you don't reach for a fruit juice bottle for daily hydration. Drink more water, then whatever sweet treats you want on occasion.

A fresh piece of fruit is a bit healthier because it has all those vitamins and minerals and fiber which is good for you, and the fiber content slows down the rapid sugar digestion. But again, it's all carbohydrate calories, that's the area you should be focused on more than if something is "natural."

I once accidentally bought a gallon of "chocolate drink" instead of "chocolate milk" cause it was in the milk section.

Took one drink and dumped it out.

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

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.

NO DROWN IN THIS HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP

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

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

Skill issue.

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.

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%

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

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.

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