| An article on the Gluten Free Pages site looks at how | | | | packs 152, according to the U.S. Department of |
| the increase in celiac disease victims could be caused | | | | Agriculture. The same amount of Coke has 97 |
| by farmers over the last few hundred years | | | | calories, and Pepsi has 100." 100% fruit juice poses |
| purposely selecting varieties of grains that have | | | | the same obesity-related health risks as Coke, Pepsi |
| abnormally high gluten levels. The purpose being to | | | | and other widely vilified beverages. Ref 1 |
| provide grains that will be turned into high gluten | | | | Now most of the main reference article is written |
| flours to assist bakers in keeping their breads and | | | | with a view to warning people about the affects of |
| cakes together. | | | | concentrated fruit juice on weight gain, however as a |
| In a similar vein, consider that people who eat too | | | | fructose intolerance or malabsorptionperson should |
| much calorie rich food are prone to increased | | | | now understand, drinking fruit juice (concentrate) can |
| likelihoods of acquiring diabetes 2. Its not necessarily | | | | directly relate to how you may have acquired your |
| the foods, but the amount or concentrations that | | | | condition in the first place. |
| cause both diseases. | | | | The author of this GFP article loves fruit and realises |
| Some allergy reactions are believed to be traced to | | | | that this affair was fostered in childhood where his |
| an increases in environmental pollutants lowering | | | | father grew many varieties of fruit trees in his home |
| people's resistance to certain allergies and diseases | | | | yard. As many people do not have this background it |
| (changes in immune functioning). It appears that | | | | is easy to understand that parents with guilty |
| fructose malabsorptionand fructose intolerance may | | | | consciences may think that substituting juice |
| also be linked to a very simple 'accidental' increase in | | | | concentrate regularly into a diet is a clever way of |
| the concentration of fructose in certain foods in our | | | | getting 'healthy food' easily into everyone's diet. |
| diets. However, unlike the intentional increase in high | | | | However an overdose of concentrate is equivalent |
| concentration gluten grains, this increase in fructose | | | | to an overdose of fructose, which "may" contribute |
| has not been caused by a quest by farmers to pack | | | | to the early onset of fructose intolerance or |
| more fructose into their fruits, the cause is seemingly | | | | malabsorption. |
| further downstream. | | | | As a society we are much more aware of the way |
| While the following information is taken from a LA | | | | that all types of fats need to be controlled in our |
| TIME article about the concerns of the | | | | diets, however 'good' sugar variety levels are much |
| over-consumption of fruit juice in our diets being | | | | lesser known and fructose can be concealed in many |
| linked to obesity, it also provides a good base for my | | | | sources. It may be that adding fruit juice concentrate |
| fructose conspiracy theory. | | | | to your diet just exceeds the healthy daily allowance |
| The logic goes a little like this: | | | | of fructose from all sources. |
| 1 In World War II, the US Army commissioned | | | | Consider the following list of "Foods highest in |
| scientists to invent a system for freezing OJ in a | | | | Fructose" (based on levels per 200-Calorie serving) |
| concentrated form. The result was the "Minute Maid" | | | | that Ref 2 has compiled: |
| patent that created cans of frozen juice concentrate. | | | | 1 Carbonated beverage, cola, with higher caffeine |
| 2 In the 1950s, Tropicana developed pasteurization | | | | [pop, soda, soft drink] Fructose: 29760mg |
| technology so that juice could be sold in refrigerated | | | | 2 Carbonated beverage, cola, without caffeine [pop, |
| cartons like milk. | | | | soda, soft drink] Fructose: 29760mg |
| 3 US TV fitness pioneer Jack LaLanne and other | | | | 3 Carbonated beverage, lemon-lime soda, contains |
| health experts branded juice as a natural medicine, | | | | caffeine [pop, soft drink, white soda] Fructose: |
| and decades of advertising made drinking juice | | | | 28634mg |
| concentrate a staple in our diet. | | | | 9 Carbonated beverage, SPRITE, lemon-lime, without |
| 4 By the 1900s, Florida citrus growers harvested | | | | caffeine [pop, soft drink, white soda] Fructose: |
| more oranges than they could sell - and because you | | | | 25954mg |
| can easily drink the juice of many more oranges than | | | | 10 Juice, apple and grape blend, with added ascorbic |
| you can eat whole, they decided to sell high | | | | acid Fructose: 25837mg |
| concentrations of juice in many drinks including cola | | | | FIVE of the TOP TEN FRUCTOSE CULPRITS ARE |
| sodas. This push to sell fructose heavy drinks in the | | | | SODA DRINKS AND FRUIT JUICE CONCENTRATE. |
| US soon spread around the world. | | | | CONCLUSION |
| Consider that "when fructose is eaten in a piece of | | | | Now consider the radical concept of avoiding high |
| fruit, it enters the body slowly so the liver has time | | | | density gluten grains and products to starve off the |
| to convert it into chemical energy. But a single glass | | | | risk of acquiring gluten intolerance (this may not help |
| of apple juice has the fructose of six apples." Ref 1 | | | | reducing the chance of acquiring coeliac / celiac |
| Besides the bulk increase of fructose density that | | | | disease as much as this is believed to be gene |
| our bodies were never meant to consume, the | | | | related). To avoid fructose intolerance, perhaps |
| concentrates also lead to obesity concerns which can | | | | sticking to a non soda, non fruit juice concentrate |
| lead to diabetes 2. Curiously as US and Australian | | | | diet is a good idea. Particularly as many drinks do not |
| schools are outlawing soda drinks in school vending | | | | specify what type of sugar is included, nor do many |
| machines, juice drinks are taking their place (which | | | | people know what a 'safe' level of fructose in |
| have equal calories and often more fructose). | | | | concentrate should be. |
| While juice does add vitamins, minerals and | | | | Imagine something that has been promoted for |
| phytonutrients to our diet, fruit does the same, in | | | | decades as a health panacea actually causing an |
| much more appropriate concentrations. Raw fruit also | | | | illness, just because of its high concentration levels. |
| contains many other nutrients that do not survive | | | | With the high cost of fruit, and in particular organic |
| many drink manufacturing processes. | | | | fruit, it is easy to understand how buying fruit juice |
| "A glass of juice concentrates all the sugar from | | | | concentrate may seem like a healthy alternative. |
| several pieces of fruit. Ounce per ounce, it contains | | | | While the concept of avoiding or limiting juice |
| more calories than soda, though it tends to be | | | | concentrate in your diet and children's diet may seem |
| consumed in smaller servings. A cup of orange juice | | | | controversial I recommend that you read the article |
| has 112 calories, apple juice has 114, and grape juice | | | | in the reference in full and make up your own mind. |