Breakfast is generally
considered as the most
important meal of the
day. At breakfast time,
most of us put some
calories in our body
and we are preparing
to
start the most active
part of our day.
But the
always-famous combination of
breakfast cereals with
fruit juice and toast has now become a taboo with the
nutritional inventions. With the 'low-
carb, low-glycemic index' food choices,
cereals as wheat flakes are
preferred
over cornflakes, white bread is
substituted by whole wheat bread with
low-cal butter, and fruit juices by
whole fruits.
So what happens to our
all-timefavourite breakfast?
Well, it may just have to get little
healthy. The logical
answer for the consumption of a couple of glasses of
fruit juice is that fruits are healthy,
therefore fruit juices are healthy. But
the logic doesn't apply to nutrition.
Even with no sugar added, zero
preservatives, unstrained fruit juice
would have the same amount of sugar
as a cola beverage, because fruit is full
of
sugar!
The sugar is from fructose that's
naturally present in fruit; if it's '10
per cent juice', most of the sugar is in
the form of high-fructose corn syrup.
When a fruit juice is 'without added
sugar', it means
sucrose or table sugar
is not added. But the sugar of the fruit
obviously
remains. Sugar in 340 ml of
fruit juice (no added sugar) is
equivalent to calories in 340 ml (one
can) of
Coca-Cola.
All the above basically tells us that no
matter which juice you choose, they all
have more calories than the same
amount of Coke. It tells us that juice -
100 per cent juice, no sugar added -
contains about the same amount of
sugar (or even more - 50 per cent more
for grape juice) as the same volume of
Coke. It tells us that, freshly-squeezed
fruit juice without straining, is no
different in ca