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You can "prove" this by looking at the glycemic index. Glycemic index is not a napkin math thing, its done by making people eat or drink something and watching what their blood sugar does.

A raw orange is 31-40.

Orange juice is 46-54.

Coca-cola is 63.

I think juice may be a _LITTLE_ better than soda. I still choose to drink neither, and think I am better off for it.

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"I think juice may be a _LITTLE_ better than soda. I still choose to drink neither, and think I am better off for it."

You're making a very good choice. I would encourage you and others to consider the raw oranges 31-40 GI as, itself, very high and akin to something like dessert or a special treat.

Or, to expand on what a child of your post expressed:

soda < juice < fruit < ... < ... < vegetables/nuts

It depends on the fruit / vegetable. Some fruits like avocadoes and olives have very low GI and some vegetables like potatoes have very high GI.

Right, fruit > juice > soda, and the gap between juice and soda is as high or higher than the gap between fruit and juice. To say juice is only a little better than fruit is to say fruit is only a little better than juice. If you have access to fresh fruit, great, but not everyone does and having juice might be better than no fruit products at all.

It's stupid honestly, fruit juice are healthy in normal quantity. Like everything don't abuse it.

Just like alchohol, but that's not how people think of the juice they buy at the grocery store.

Maybe in the US. But I've never heard about abusing fruit juice before moving here.

Most countries don’t have the sugar most Americans do in their daily diet. Look at the sugar in white bread.....

I Just look at total g of sugar and total calories.

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