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Cake day: March 29th, 2025

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  • Immediately calling me a bootlicker, even though I pointed out the label is misleading, classic internet…

    And yes, you are still missing something. Added sugars means sugar added in later into the batch to make it more sweet, the same way you’d add sugar into your tea. Label “Includes 0g Added Sugars” means they added 0g of sugar, simple as.

    On the other hand, that juice still has 24g of total sugar. You correctly pointed out that it comes from apple juice concentrate (and other concentrates, and banana puree). Fruit concentrates can be used as sweeteners and should be counted towards added sugars in other products, however not in the case of juices. The reason for that is very simple - because then nothing would ever be juice. All of it would just be very sweet water. In the same vein, that would be like taking a bag of sugar and calling it a bag of air with added sugar. That doesn’t make much sense, does it?

    Let’s say for a minute that you are correct and sugar from these fruits should be included in the added sugars section. This now means added sugars and total sugars are one and the same, at 24g. So now what is the point of this distinction? More importantly, how would you know how much sugar did they add outside of fruits? I have no doubt corporations would quickly jump on this and start adding in sugar like crazy in order to make people addicted.


  • You seem to be missing that it is 0% ADDED sugars. They are not lying about anything here (at least as far as we know).

    Should they include the percentage for the 24 grams that come from fruit? Yes. Does that make the label misleading? Yes. Does that mean they are lying about there being no sugar in there. Absolutely not! In fact I’d say they are being very clear about where the sweetness comes from, as they should be.