[sureaboutthis]

Maybe some Vitamin C?! Orange juice is 71% vitamin C! And there is NO added sugar except maybe in the cartons you must be buying at your grocery store.

Olive oil is basically "just fat"?! You make me think that you think the fat in olive oil is no different than the fat in pork or beef.

With those thoughts in mind, most of what you eat is just a little of this and just a little of that and "basically just fat" but it's too early in the morning for me to give you an education.

[dang]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19532058

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18316661

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17434335

[seszett]

> Maybe some Vitamin C?! Orange juice is 71% vitamin C!

Not it's not 71% vitamin C, it's about 0.05% vitamin C.

125 ml of orange juice provides about 71% of the daily vitamin C needs (60 mg), which is probably what you meant but very different from what you actually said.

[sureaboutthis]

Yes, it's what I meant but it will be lost on so many people.

[windexh8er]

But even what you meant is wrong. When you remove the juice from the fiber (orange, apple, mango, etc) it becomes a sugary drink [0]. Added sugar doesn't mean anything, sugar is sugar is sugar [1]. By removing the fiber the overload of sugar the liver has to deal with is no different than drinking soda. While fruit juice may have a few minor benefits here and there research is stating that it's not healthy outside of small quantity. Parents give their kids (at least in the US) way too much juice [2] and it's become a learned habit as kids grow up to drink juice because they've been told it's healthy. What they weren't taught was healthy rationing.

[0] https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/fruit-juice-is-just-as-...

[1] https://sugarscience.ucsf.edu/the-growing-concern-of-overcon...

[2] https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/childrens-healt...

[sho]

Maybe you need to be a little less "sureaboutthis"

[brownbat]

The benefits of Vitamin C have been wildly overstated, thanks mainly to Linus Pauling, whose theories on its therapeutic and preventative effects have been consistently debunked in large studies, with some studies even associating high doses of Vitamin C with increases in some types of cancer in mice:

https://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pauling.h...

[rskar]

Fruit juices should be seen as a form of processed sugar - even if the processing is not as substantial as making table sugar. Whole fruit - such as a whole orange or grape or apple - is a much better and nutritional choice.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/17/health/fruit-juice-sugary-dri...

https://www.diabetes.co.uk/food/juice-and-diabetes.html

https://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f5001

[DataWorker]

Doesn’t the Bmj article say oranges increase the risk of type 2 and that fruits are all different. Blueberries are good, oranges and strawberries not so much. Still better than juice but that’s to be expected.

[dasd99]

> And there is NO added sugar

This is NO good argument - even without added sugar, orange juice is on par with coke (about 10 gram sugar/100 ml).

[seanalltogether]

No sugar added! lots of water removed

[sureaboutthis]

I will put people who say this in the same category. Anyone who thinks added sugar is the same as fruit sugar...well...

[DanBC]

Fruit juice contains high amounts of sugar. There's not much difference between the sugars in fruit juice and the sugars in cola. Fruit juice is not a healthy drink. This myth causes harm. Parents give their children fruit juice because they think it's healthy, and this causes toot decay.

https://www.nhs.uk/common-health-questions/childrens-health/...

> Like fizzy drinks, fruit juice and squash can be high in sugar, which can cause tooth decay. Because sugary drinks can be high in energy (calories), having these drinks too often can also lead to weight gain and obesity.

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/water-drinks-nutrition...

> Unsweetened 100% fruit juice, vegetable juice and smoothies can only ever count as a maximum of 1 portion of your recommended 5 daily portions of fruit and vegetables.

> For example, if you have 2 glasses of fruit juice and a smoothie in 1 day, that still only counts as 1 portion.

> That's because fruit juice and smoothies don't contain the fibre found in whole fruits and vegetables. Have other types of fruit and vegetables for the other 4 (or more) portions.

> Fruit juice and smoothies also contains sugar that can damage teeth. It's best to drink them with a meal because this can help protect your teeth.

[sho]

> I will put people who say this in the same category

The category of "being correct"

[Retric]

Coke uses high fructose corn syrup in the US. The sugar in orange juice is largely fructose. The name is the same because it’s the same thing.

[gdfasfklshg4]

Fruit sugar is fructose the exact same chemical as comprises about half of sucrose and exactly half of high fructose corn syrup.

Fruit sugar is just sugar.

[thechao]

Dietary sugar—sugar that’s bound up along with fiber in its natural setting like fruits & vegetables—is a very different thing from non-dietary sugar. The former is fine; the latter is a chronic hepatotoxin that leads to metabolic disease, including lethargy, irritability, fat gain (sp. interstitial), and diabetes.

[sho]

> Orange juice is 71% vitamin C

> it's too early in the morning for me to give you an education

One of those statements was correct. You are off by more than 3 orders of magnitude - an impressive feat.

[fasterdom]

It's even more impressive when you see that his account is named 'sureaboutthis"

[dang]

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments? Also, could you please stop creating accounts for every few comments you post? We ban accounts that do that. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

HN is a community. Users needn't use their real name, but should have some identity for others to relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community, and that would be a different kind of forum. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

[chrisseaton]

> it's too early in the morning for me to give you an education

This is rude.

[gdfasfklshg4]

Fruit sugar is still sugar.