EU juice has no added sugar! Dong's: Choose low-sugar juice carefully

The European Union will stipulate that food manufacturers are not allowed to add any additional sugar to fruit juice. Xu Huiyu, director of the nutrition group of the Tung Foundation, strongly agrees. She said that many people believe that drinking fruit juice can replace the lack of fruit. However, in China, no matter how high the concentration of fruit juice is, sugar must be added to enhance the taste. She called for healthy fruit juice to have the highest concentration possible but the lowest sugar content possible.

Sugary fruit juice has low nutritional value but high calories. Drinking too much can easily cause obesity.

Xu Huiyu said that fruit juice cannot replace fruit. On the one hand, it lacks the dietary fiber that can be obtained by eating fruit directly, and the natural vitamins in fruit juice made by the food processing industry have been destroyed after high-temperature treatment. Therefore, if the fruit juice claims to contain vitamins, they are all single vitamins added later and have poor nutritional value. On the other hand, the original concentration of more fruit juices is very low. For example, some orange juices are just flavored water with orange flavor. The common point of these juices is that the sugar brings empty calories.

What are the effects of eating too much sugar? Xu Huiyu said that in addition to the problem of obesity, studies have shown that sugar addicts are prone to anxiety, poor concentration, and even the more sugary drinks (including fruit juice) they drink, the higher their depression or suicide rates. In addition, she once encountered a child who had been drinking "fake juice" since childhood, that is, juice made with flavored water. When he drank the real freshly squeezed juice, he actually thought that the juice was "spoiled", which made her very sad.

Xu Huiyu has made her own sugar-free juice many times. She described the taste as "a little sour, but that's the taste of real fruit." Sugar-free juice may not be found in China at present, so how much should you control to be healthier? Xu Huiyu suggested: "If you estimate based on 250CC of juice, don't drink more than 3 cans a week."