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Fruit has vitamins in it. So therefore,
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orange juice must be better for you than
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that's actually a total myth. A piece of
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whole fruit also contains fiber and
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water. So even though it's been bred to
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have a lot of sugar, the fiber in the
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water reduce how quickly the sugar
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arrives in our bloodstream, making it
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more or less okay for us. But the
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problem comes when we denature that
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piece of fruit. Meaning if we remove the
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fiber, for example, if we take an orange
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and make an orange juice, you throw away
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part of the orange. If you throw away
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the solid part, which is the fiber, what
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you're left with is the water in the
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orange and all the sugar in the orange.
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As a result, you're getting a very
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unnatural amount of sugar in your
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bloodstream with no fiber to protect the
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spike. So, a big big glucose spike. And
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people often say, "Oh, well, fruit has
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vitamins in it, so therefore, orange
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juice must be better for you than
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Coca-Cola." That's actually a total
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myth. If you compare a glass of orange
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juice to a glass of Coca-Cola, it's the
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same amount of sugar, about 25 grams.
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And the sugar in the can of Coke and the
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sugar in the glass of orange juice,
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they're exactly the same. They're
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glucose and fructose molecules. And your
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body absorbs them in the exact same way.
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Your body does not make a difference
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between sugar from an orange and sugar
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from a sugar beat that's now in a can of
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Coca-Cola. This is why we have to look
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at this orange juice and understand what
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it is. It's just 25 g of sugar. Yes, it
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has some vitamins and yes, it's orange,
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but that doesn't make it good for you.