“Down the aisle is Welch’s 100% Grape Juice, with no fat and emblazoned with a red-heart certification from the American Heart Association. An eight-ounce glass has 36 grams of sugar; a regular-sized Snickers, by comparison, has 30.”
Foods With Health Benefits, or So They Say - NYTimes.com
We don’t shop in grocery stores anymore. They are - quite literally - filled with nothing but poison.
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Note from Ron: I love that the NY Times leaves out that there is no sugar added to Welch’s Grape Juice (stated as clearly as the AHA certification) and that Grapes have an extremely high level of sugar in them naturally. An 8oz glass of Welch’s Grape Juice contains around 40 or more grapes. They do go on and say “No one is saying that these products are unsafe or unhealthy” but it does not matter. The stain is left on the readers brain. Let’s pray they don’t look into how much sugar is in an orange. I’m sure it would also take a little journalism to explain the difference in sucrose and fructose sugars as well.
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NEWS FLASH! Scientists Discover Why Fruit Is Sweet: It Contains Sugar
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