How much fruit is in your packaged fruit juice?
A closer look at labels of fruit juices—including those that claim they are 100% pure fruit juice—indicates that some of them contain as much sugar as carbonated beverages, with the actual quantity of fruit pulp at barely a fifth of the contents.

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