A single 12 ounce glass of Orange Juice has an astonishing 9 teaspoons of sugar, as much as a 12 ounce can of regular soda! This compares to 36 grams of carbohydrates, about half of what you should ingest in a day.
If you were to drink only one glass of orange juice per day, you would be consuming an extra 3,285 teaspoons (close to 70 cups) of sugar in a year or about 53,000 additional calories.
Even though fruit smoothies have natural sugars, the content can still be high. And sugar will just turn to fat in the body anyway, as well as contributing to diseases such as diabetes.
Sugary drinks can cause other medical problems because sugar increases blood pressure and cardiovascular risk indicators, even if there is no weight gain.
The reality is that you should be getting enough vitamin C in your diet if not, a multivitamin will supply what you need.
Recent research points out the 25,347 deaths a year a due to sugary drinks, which includes orange juice, soft drinks and fruit smoothies.
It’s time to remove sugary beverages from your daily diet.
