date:Mar 28, 2016
rring sugars in the juices and smoothies. The average sugar content was 7g per 100ml, but in fruit juices and smoothies, it was significantly higher. Among the 21 fruit juices analysed, it averaged 10.7 per 100ml and among the 24 smoothies, it averaged 13g per 100ml.
Almost 60% of the drinks would get a red traffic light label on the basis of their sugar content, the paper says. The researchers say that 78% of the drinks contained a non-calorific sweetener such as aspartame. Although these have