This is a rant against Naked Juice, if you have info showing what I’m saying is wrong, please send it because I’m no food studies major. Of course naked juice isn’t as bad as soda, but I’m gonna talk about why it’s no healthier than any other juice out there.
To start, they’re owned by pepsico. This is no company that cares about its consumers health so you can count on them cutting edges and finding loopholes to maximize profit. In a 15.2 ounce bottle of mighty mango, the bottle says there are 58 grams of natural sugars. The bottle also says that it contains 1.25 mangoes, 1.75 apples, .5 of an orange, and 1/3 of a banana. If you add the sugar in these fruits up, you get 101 grams of sugar (which varies slightly but not 50%). So why does the drink only contain 58 grams? This is probably because their “smoothie” is mostly juice, and went through a small blending process to call it a smoothie.
I emailed their customer support and they haven’t responded yet. They were also sued in 2013 and settled for $9 million for lying about “all natural” sugars. They were sued again in 2018 for failure to fix the issue. Some websites say you can claim $45 with no proof of purchase for being lied to, however I don’t know if this is true or not.
Another thing to take into account is dietary fiber, of which one 15.2 ounce bottle of mighty mango only has 3.6 grams. If you think this is enough dietary fiber to slow your metabolic rate for breaking down 58 grams of sugar, then think about this. In 1 apple, which contains around 19 grams of sugar, there are 4.4 grams of dietary fiber, which is the main regulator of sugar’s metabolization. If you have 3 apples, it would be about the same amount of sugar that’s in one mighty mango 15.2 ounce bottle. However, the apples would have 13.2 grams of dietary fiber (25-30 grams is the recommended daily amount), whereas the naked drink only had 3.6 grams of dietary fiber (other naked drinks have even less fiber).
My last point is the calories in the mighty mango drink. In one 15.2 ounce drink, there are 275 calories, which is quite a bit for a drink. Now if you took the amount of natural sugars in the drink alone, you would get 224 calories from 58 grams of sugar. This means that the calories in mighty mango are 81% sugar. If you think this is a healthy drink, then you’re seeing exactly what Pepsi wants you to see. All this math was done using google’s average nutritional facts of different fruits.
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