mommagreenfish

So I bought some grapefruit juice today, thinking “This will be a nice healthy treat.”

Wrong.

I mean, I was aware that there would be added sugar - not many people would buy pure grapefruit juice. Well, I would, but I really can’t support the grapefruit juice industry all on my own.

Anyway, it is labeled “Pink Grapefruit Cocktail from concentrate”, because they’re not allowed to call it juice if you add sugar, but also says “made with real juice”.

After cracking it open and having a nice, big, tasty swig, I decided to read the label - to check how much of the daily Vitamin C I had just consumed. That’s where the shock came in.

According to the label, the juice is “not a significant source” of Vitamin C.

What?

I checked the ingredients list - the first thing listed is “grapefruit juice from concentrate”. Before water, even. Which means that there has to be at least as much grapefruit juice as water in the “cocktail”.

I even went to the company’s online nutritional information site, which confirmed that there was no Vitamin C in my juice. Out of curiousity, I checked out the company’s nutritional information for frozen grapefruit juice concentrate.

Guess what?

4 tablespoons of frozen concentrate has 140% of the daily requirement for Vitamin C.

Now I’m baffled - how does this work? There’s obviously Vitamin C in grapefruit, and even the company’s own concentrate has loads of it, so what happened to the stuff that went into the cocktail?

If anyone knows more about the mystery of the unhealthy grapefruit juice, PLEASE let me in on the secret!

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