Can an apple juice a day rot your teeth away?
Can an apple juice a day rot your teeth away?
It's true — apple juice can pose a risk to your health.
Nutrition experts say apple juice's real danger is to waistlines and children's teeth. Apple juice has few natural nutrients, lots of calories and, in some cases, more sugar than soda has. It trains a child to like very sweet things, displaces better beverages and foods, and adds to the obesity problem, its critics say.
"It's like sugar water," said Judith Stern, a nutrition professor at the University of California, Davis, who has consulted for candy makers as well as for Weight Watchers. "I won't let my 3-year-old grandson drink apple juice."
Many juices are fortified with vitamins, so they're not just empty calories. But that doesn't appease some nutritionists.
"If it wasn't healthy in the first place, adding vitamins doesn't make it into a health food," and if it causes weight gain, it's not a healthy choice, said Karen Ansel, a registered dietitian in New York and spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association.
The American Academy of Pediatrics says juice can be part of a healthy diet, but its policy is blunt: "Fruit juice offers no nutritional benefit for infants younger than 6 months" and no benefits over whole fruit for older kids.
Kids under 12 consume 28 percent of all juice and juice drinks, according to the academy. Nationwide, apple juice is second only to orange juice in popularity. Americans slurp 267 ounces of apple juice on average each year, according to the Food Institute's Almanac of Juice Products and the Juice Products Association, a trade group. Lots more is consumed as an ingredient in juice drinks and various foods.
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- Posted on December 2, 2011
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I never new that apple juice could be that unhealthy. I learned from the nutrition unit that we need a lot of fruits, and that apples are good for you but I guess apple juice has a lot of sugar mixed with it. I still like apple juice and I think its good and I don't think that is one of the many reasons for obesity, like junk food and not exercising.
When I would I have apple juice as a child I thought it was healthy for me. I thought I was doing myself good. I would have never thought, or known until I read this article, that it was unhealthy for you. To me, this proves that, companies advertise false information. Any little kid who is drinking apple juice will think 'oh apples are in it, it must be healthy' but truthfully it's not. I don't think people should be allowed to sell something that can rot kids teeth and has so much sugar.
Comment- I thought apple juice was healthy, but I don't think it's very good for your teeth. I drink apple juice all the time. I thought apple juice was made from apples, and apples are healthy. Is apple juice made from apples?
Summary- Nutrition experts say apple juice's real danger is to waistlines and children's teeth. Apple juice has few natural nutrients, lots of calories and, in some cases, more sugar than soda has. It trains a child to like very sweet things, displaces better beverages and foods, and adds to the obesity problem, its critics say. "It's like sugar water," said Judith Stern, a nutrition professor at the University of California, Davis, who has consulted for candy makers as well as for Weight Watchers.
I thought apple juice was healthy, but I don't think it's very good for your teeth. I drink apple juice all the time. I thought apple juice was made from apples, and apples are healthy. Is apple juice made from apples?
I agree that apple juice can be bad for you. If you read the ingredients and nutrients in it; it really is only sugar and other modified ingredients. If someone wants to get the real nutrition, then they should just eat an apple. I think that if we want the apple juice to be as healthy as it appears to be; then we need to make it purely apple juice and nothing added. I also agree that added nutrients don’t make it better. You could get the same nutrients from taking a vitamin pill without the sugar and calories.
I can't believe something so tasty could rot your teeth away. I guess People just don't read the label and realize that what they're eating and drinking is rotting their teeth.
I see apple juice in two ways. I see apple juice in a good way and now after reading this article a bad way. Now that I think about it juices are actually filled with a lot of sugar. I do not agree with the people saying that apple juice will rot your teeth. I think that soda, alcohol and drugs would be more than likely to rot your teeth, because we have proved that. Juice, is not a problem at all. Kids have drank it for so long, and I haven’t heard any problems with rotting teeth. Even if there is a lot of sugar in the juice, it is not going to rot your teeth. I think that kids should keep drinking apple juice and not worry about their teeth. When I was little, I drank juice all the time and my teeth are not rotted. If you love apple juice but you are worried about your teeth rotting, just brush your teeth after drinking apple juice.
i dont think that apple jucie will rot your teeth apple jucie is good for you it may do that to people who drink it alot. and if it do rot your teeth it may be to people 5 in uder because that just dont sound right for a 15 in older child .
Wow, that's crazy!! i didn't know that apple juice could rot your teeth. Obvoiusly, i didn't know that apple juice was unhealthy for kids and bad for your health. Now, i know better than to give little kids appple juice.