Arsenic and Lead Are in Your Fruit Juice: What You Need to Know

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[–]wizzwizz4 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

They shouldn't be pressing apple seeds into the juice.

However, it's probably in safe levels. It doesn't kill you to eat apple pips every time you eat an apple, though it's still not great. What's a problem is constantly giving kids juice instead of water. Give them water, even if they don't like the taste, because the alternative is a sweet tooth and no teeth.

[–]useless_aether[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

whenever i drink fruit juice (rarely) i dilute it 1:1 with water because i find it nauseatingly sweet. and i always buy pure fruit juice, with no sugar or additives

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Same with most drinks in America, the national palate is far too sugar-oriented

[–]CA_Taxpayer 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I never was one to drink much juice, but I did like sweet coffee. I started drinking my coffee black a few years ago -- not by choice, it was a health decision. Since then, though, my sweet tooth has been seriously curbed. Foods that I thought tasted yummy now are simply way too sweet for me. It is interesting how eliminating the sweet drinks changed my perspective on food so much.

[–]magnora7 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Same here. Everything is so sugary, even simple stuff like bread. I blame it on the huge subsidies the sugar industry gets, likely because the sugar lobby spent decades lobbying congress to get special privileges. Same reason High-Fructose Corn Syrup is in everything in the US. It's cheap because it's subsidized, because those industries lobbied to get special support.