I just want juice, is that so much to ask?

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.

Pure passion fruit juice would probably cost you 10-20$ per liter and it would be waaay too concentrated.

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

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.

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

Skill issue.

"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.

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

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

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.

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

Then why not just eat actual fruit?

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.

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%

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.

From the UK have to ask, why do Americans put up with corn syrup in absolutely everything? Like seriously fruit juice has to have it??

Passion fruit is tasty. I'd like to try it in a beverage (not this beverage)

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.

Yeah, I stopped buying anything Welch’s for just this reason. Actually I’m not sure I ever started. When I bought juice, I always looked for some that had juice. Now that juice has entered a new phase of enshittication, it’s just not worth it, even for special occasions

shit says copywright 2023.. how old is that juice?

NO DROWN IN THIS HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP

Family farm owned, too! Wowee!

USA? Most drinks here in Canada don't contain HFCS.

Edit: didn't read the thread first, seems like I'm on topic.

we have "100% juice" here which can only have fruit concentrate (or puree depending on the fruit) and water. that's the only kind that i buy. i still have no idea why you would add sugar to fruit.

"Juice" is mostly water and sugar. I'm not sure what you expected.

In Murica? Yes.

Look for 100% juice.

While you're at it, look for "zero sugar" products. They use sucralose, which is 600 times sweeter (gram for gram) than sugar, so they use way less of it. No aftertaste either, though it doesn't have that "sugary" flavour, so it does taste differently. After a while I just think it's better.

Yes

R.W. Knudsen Family makes juice without all the bullshit. Ingredients in their mango juice: Mango Juice (Filtered Water, Mango Juice Concentrate), Mango Puree.

I really like mango juice. I gave it up for nearly a decade because at the time, the only thing available was GOYA brand, and I've been boycotting them since they teamed up with the KKKomander in Cheto. (Plus the GOYA brand had lots of sugar added.) My grocer started carrying this brand, and it's fucking delicious.

Your best bet is to start looking into organic brands of juice.