Do you regularly have juice in your refrigerator?

I am referring to 100% fruit juice, not "juice beverages" with sugar added.

We typically have grape, orange and/or apple juice on hand. But when we travel and stay in other people's homes, we often find that they do not drink juice.

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ninalanyon · 70-79, TVIP

Perhaps they have fruit instead? Expressing the juice from fruit increases the uptake of the sugars in them rendering them roughly as bad for you in large quantities as any other drink sweetened with the same quantity of sucrose, glucose, or fructose.

Better to eat the fruit instead and get the roughage as well and reduce the intensity of the sugar hit.

bijouxbroussard · F

@ninalanyon This was what I discovered, as well.

ninalanyon · 70-79, TVIP

@bijouxbroussard Mind you making the sugars available is exactly what I will be doing a lot of over the next weeks as I collect the apples from my trees to make cider. That's hard cider on your side of the pond I think, there won't be any sugar left in the final product. It'll be perfectly safe to drink then :-)

RedBaron · M

@ninalanyon Except that the alcohol gets metabolized into sugar. Not good if one is diabetic.

ninalanyon · 70-79, TVIP

@RedBaron But still there will be less of it than in the original juice, and you get to enjoy the alcohol as well. And you could dilute it with sparkling water or drink it slower.

I'm lucky, no diabetes in my family it seems, neither type1 nor type 2 so far.

I get the impression that at least type 2 can be controlled to some extent by avoiding sudden large quantities of sugar. Is this actually the case in practise?

RedBaron · M

@ninalanyon I keep it in check by limiting alcohol and starchy carbs like bread and pasta.