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