fruit juice or whole fruit ???

100% pure fruit juice... it has to be good for you right? But is it...

While 100% juice may be a convenient way to consume extra vitamins and minerals, it is full of sugar. You should actually eliminate fruit juice from your diet entirely, the reason being that it is full of sugar and has none of the fiber that real fruit does.

While whole fruit is a source of dietary fiber, fruit juice actually contains little to no fiber. A cup of apple juice, has 0.2 gram of fiber, while a whole apple contains 3.3 grams. One cup of orange juice has 0.5 gram of fiber while a cup of fresh raw orange has 4.3 grams.

Drinking fruit juice before a meal may actually make you hungrier. It not only adds calories, but can cause you to eat more calories in the following meal.

Even if the sugar in the juice is actually coming from fruits, your body does not use fructose any differently than refined sugar.
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At the end of the day, you want a fruit, eat a fruit, if you are thirsty, drink water!