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Article: Stripped-juice tease. (ingredients in fruit juice are not what's on the labels)
- Article from:
- Nutrition Action Healthletter
- Article date:
- October 1, 1991
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1991 Center for Science in the Public Interest. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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The first fruit juice listed on the label of After the Fall's Georgia Peach 100% Fruit Juice Blend isn't peach.
Raspberries aren't the first fruit ingredient listed in Polaner's Raspberry All Fruit Spreadable Fruit, either. You won't find sour cherry Sparkler. And apple isn't first in Frookie's Fat Free Apple Spice Cookies.
Nope. It's "grape juice concentrate."
Some--nobody knows how much--of the "grape" (and "pear" and "apple") juice concentrate in foods like juices, spreads, and cookies is little more than sugar water. It's been "stripped" of the flavor, color, and nutrients that were in the fruit.
As a result, unsuspecting ...