During the Spring Festival, it is always greasy. At this time, a refreshing juice drink is actually the best choice. Fruit juice can not only supplement minerals and vitamins that we lack in our diet, but also has good flavor, excellent taste and convenient drinking, which is liked by many students.
Follow our footsteps into the supermarket, and you will find that there are many kinds of juice in the supermarket, such as "100% pure juice", "juice drink" and "fruity drink", which makes people see things in a blur. Many of these juices are attached with healthy and natural gimmicks to attract our attention. Are these drinks really healthy juices in our memory? What is hidden behind the dazzling juice?
Natural juice standard
Natural fruit juice, also known as 100% fruit juice, refers to a beverage with the color, flavor and soluble solid content of the original fruit pulp by processing the fruit into unfermented fruit juice or adding water equivalent to the lost natural moisture into concentrated fruit juice.
As can be seen from the definition of natural juice, there are only two ways to be called natural juice. One is to extract juice directly from fruit, and the other is to mix water with concentrated juice in equal proportion. Therefore, we will find that only concentrated juice and purified water are the ingredients of natural juice, and no additives such as essence and pigment are added.
But not all fruits are suitable for making natural juice, such as hawthorn and apricot. Their pure juice is too sour and needs blending. Therefore, in the National General Principles for Beverages, it is allowed to add sugar or souring agent to natural fruit juice, but both cannot be added at the same time. If we find that there are both sugar and sour agent in the ingredient list of juice when we buy it, then it is not natural juice.
Is "fruit juice drink" really fruit juice?
Fruit juice beverage refers to a beverage made by adding water, white sugar, fruit juice, sweetener and sour agent to fruit juice. As long as the fruit juice content is greater than 10%, it can be called "fruit juice beverage". Compared with natural fruit juice, it not only adds a lot of water and additives, but also has poor fruit juice content. Although fruit juice beverage only has the word "beverage" more than natural fruit juice, its nutritional value is nothing compared with natural beverage.
Does super delicious fruit orange really have pulp?
In fact, just because there is pulp in the drink does not mean that the juice content is high. Many students prefer juice with pulp, thinking that it must be full of juice. As we all know, fruit juice with pulp also belongs to "fruit juice beverage", and its thick texture is not from pulp, but from thickening agents such as carrageenan and sodium carboxymethyl cellulose that students can hardly imagine.
"Fruit drink" and "fruit drink" are like twins, so it is difficult to distinguish them. Although they are all made of water, sugar, sour agent, etc. Juice drinks are not as good as juice drinks. "Juice drinks" have very low requirements for themselves, and the juice content is above 5%. If a classmate is unfortunate enough to buy an "orange juice drink", there is very little orange juice in it.
Did you make the "fruity drink" upstairs?
If you find a "fruity drink" with a certain fruit printed on the bottle when you buy a drink, such as an apple-flavored drink, it means that this drink may have nothing to do with fruit, but has the taste of fruit. In the ingredient list, you will find that the fruity beverage is made of raw materials such as white sugar or sweetener, sour agent, fruit juice, edible essence and so on. Generally, the content of fruit juice is below 5%, and some of them may even contain no fruit juice ingredients at all, and are blended with food additives.
There are ingenious ways to choose juice.
When buying bottled juice, students must open their eyes to see the name and ingredient list of the drink. If the name of the juice is marked with the word "beverage", the nature of the juice will be greatly reduced. In addition, it should be noted that in order to confuse the audience, merchants often mark the word "beverage" very small or write it in an inconspicuous place, so students must keep their eyes open when buying juice and choose the juice that suits them.
(Author: Li Lili, national second-class public dietitian, original works, please indicate that knowledge is power)
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Editor: Liu Weiqiong
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