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Contains 100% Natural Juice (or whatever ingredient)
When advertisers and marketers say this about, let's say orange juice, they are not lying. That jug does contain 100% natural juice. However, you do realize that if you have a glass of water and you squeeze one drop of juice from an orange into that water, that water now contains 100% orange juice? If that's the case, exactly what are the other ingredients and exactly how many drops of orange juice are in the jug?
Made with 100% Juice (or whatever product)
Let's use juice for example again. So you have another jug of orange juice, but this one says, made with 100% juice. It pretty much means the same thing as contains, just different wording. Just out of curiosity, how do you make juice, with juice?
Concentrate/Not From Concentrate
When people go to the grocery store, they mostly look for the healthiest economical products in the building. Juices are at the top of that list. The advertisers and marketers would have you think that one is better than the other, when the truth is, they are usually both crap. The truth is pretty alarming.
From Concentrate means the juice was dehydrated, shipped to a factory, rehydrated, and packaged. Not from concentrate means the juice was put directly in the container.
To those of us who grew up with concentrate juice in the freezer, we know what it's like to rip open the top and run hot water on the sides of the frozen cylinder. While waiting and waiting for the frozen juice to finally fall out, at some point a spoon would find its way into the encasement and dig all of it out. You had to use the perfect amount of water or you will truly ruin the flavor. It would either be two watery or to sweet. To be honest, to this day I'm still not sure what the true taste of watered concentrated juice is.
Concentrate is sometimes dehydrated down to powder form to transport. Then they rehydrated it to add flavor packs, additives, preservatives and coloring. It's safe to say quite a bit is added to the contents of frozen juices. You can tell just by the color of the contents. Oranges aren't even that orange. Cherries aren't even that red and so on.
Is it healthy? I dare to say it has minimal health attributes that is sorrily outweighed by the negative. You would do much better to simply juice yourself. A great inexpensive juicer is the:
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