Children will be headed back to school in the coming weeks. In their lunch boxes will be those convenient juice boxes, loaded with sugar.
On the Morning Show Monday, we helped to identify which pack the most.
Dieticians recommend the real juice options over the sugar flavored water, but in strolling down the grocery aisle myself, I found most of the boxes, unless it was promoting less sugar, contained just about the same amount.
In case you're wondering, the fruits carrying the most natural sugar are said to be, Grape, Cherry, and Apple.
In any event most of the fruit juices boxes I saw carried anywhere from 21grams of sugar to 23 grams of sugar.
Here's a calculation good to know... 4 grams of sugar = 1tsp. of sugar.
Do the math... and yep, each box of fruit juice can have close to six teaspoons of sugar... Wowza... no wonder my daughter will shamelessly pull an all out beg and plead for another cup of pink lemonade! Although, the pink lemonade did a lot better than some.
I also spotted a fairly new item on the shelf called "Roarin Waters," by CAPRISUN.
One juice pouch contained 9grams of sugar. May be a good one to look for.