Here is another food item that is being marketed as being healthy, but in actual fact can be quite damaging to your health. Although fruit juice is made from something that is actually supposed to be healthy, the saying that too much of a good thing can be bad never rang truer. 100% fruit juice is just that, the juice of fruit and it is super sweet and full of sugar. Many fruit juices contain as much sugar as fizzy soft drinks if not more. No matter how you look at it, too much sugar is bad.

There are some beverage manufacturers that claim that their juices are 100%, but this is misleading. The production process of fruit juice requires the juice to be stored in oxygen-depleted tanks after it has been squeezed from the fruit. Sometimes the juice is stored for up to a year before being canned or bottled.

This is where the juice loses its 100% status. Due to the lack of oxygen, the juice loses the majority of its flavor and then flavor packs are added to bring the taste back. Even the best quality juices are far from the juice found in the original fruit. Some lower quality juice can almost be classified as fruit-flavored sugar water.

The main difference between fruit juice and the juice found naturally within a fruit is the fiber. If one compares orange juice and whole oranges, both contain anti-oxidants, Vitamin C and Vitamin B1, but the juice contains much less than fruit and a whole lot more sugar. The lack of fiber means that the sugars are digested super-fast and if the energy isn’t used, it converts to fat.