How do you decode nutrition labels?

[LiFeIsGoOd]

The question is not really about an entire label, just some ingredients I've come across a lot. I don't know exactly what they mean by them and if they are good or bad. If anyone else has additional ingredients they're unsure about, feel free to post up questions on those as I'm sure others, myself included, will want to know. If I think of more, I will also list.

• Dehydrated *insert vegetable* - presumably those are literally just veggies without water, which means they're fine?
• *insert fruit* Juice Concentrate
• *insert fruit* Puree
• Rice/Brown Rice Syrup (or any "syrup" for that matter)
• Evaporated Cane Juice

[mpipes]

*insert fruit* Juice Concentrate - fruit juice that has had the water cooked out of it, leaving a higher concentration of sugar.

*insert fruit* Puree - fruit that's been run through a blender in order to pulvarize it so the whole fruit can be added to a food as a sweetener, but without the fruit itself being detectable.

Rice/Brown Rice Syrup - the starch from the rice has been seperated chemically and processed til sweet - basically a fancy word for sugar, like high fructose corn syrup, only made from rice.

Evaporated Cane Juice - the juice from sugar cane that's had the water cooked/evaporated off to increase the concentration of sugar.

[LiFeIsGoOd]

Originally Posted by mpipes

*insert fruit* Juice Concentrate - fruit juice that has had the water cooked out of it, leaving a higher concentration of sugar.

*insert fruit* Puree - fruit that's been run through a blender in order to pulvarize it so the whole fruit can be added to a food as a sweetener, but without the fruit itself being detectable.

Rice/Brown Rice Syrup - the starch from the rice has been seperated chemically and processed til sweet - basically a fancy word for sugar, like high fructose corn syrup, only made from rice.

Evaporated Cane Juice - the juice from sugar cane that's had the water cooked/evaporated off to increase the concentration of sugar.

So fruit juice concentrate and puree are good to go?

[cycomiko]

Originally Posted by LiFeIsGoOd

Dehydrated *insert vegetable* - presumably those are literally just veggies without water, which means they're fine?

vegetables that are dried, via multiple methods but often slow heat

• *insert fruit* Juice Concentrate

juice that has been concentrated through various methods, but often just plain old filtration

• *insert fruit* Puree

Get apple, blend, puree. Sometimes slightly dehydrated to make it thicker. can be pasteruized

• Rice/Brown Rice Syrup (or any "syrup" for that matter)

Rice startch that has been enzymatically snipped up into create a mixture of oligosaccharides, maltose and glucose. Sugar syrup.

• Evaporated Cane Juice

The juice from the sugar cane evaporated down to a powder. its sugar dude.

[cycomiko]

Originally Posted by LiFeIsGoOd

So fruit juice concentrate and puree are good to go?

it may contain some nutrients, but its primarily added as a sweetner. Often its the higher fructose fruit that are added. These will have some benefits for healt, but predominantly if you eat enough of it, it iwll still have the negatives of fructose.

[LiFeIsGoOd]

Originally Posted by cycomiko

it may contain some nutrients, but its primarily added as a sweetner. Often its the higher fructose fruit that are added. These will have some benefits for healt, but predominantly if you eat enough of it, it iwll still have the negatives of fructose.

True. I haven't found anything on what amount that is, you?

[cycomiko]

what? the amount that is included, or the amount that is negative?

[LiFeIsGoOd]

Originally Posted by cycomiko

what? the amount that is included, or the amount that is negative?

When fructose intake starts to be "too much"

[cycomiko]

give or take variability due to weight and enzymatic ability, 50gram is the area they usually look at, which is a big dose of fructose

[LiFeIsGoOd]

Originally Posted by cycomiko

give or take variability due to weight and enzymatic ability, 50gram is the area they usually look at, which is a big dose of fructose

You're talking in one sitting though, right?

What about over the course of a day or even months, years, etc.?