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by seszett 2547 days ago
> 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.

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

Maybe you need to be a little less "sureaboutthis"