Sugar

[Bazile]

Just been watching Steph's pack lunch about reducing sugar in your diet .

I'm sure it was stated that you could add more water to fruit juices .

But surely that doesn't reduce the amount of sugar ,unless you then didn't drink all of the juice

[bhg481]

Instead of having a glass of juice with your lunch you fill the glass half full and then top up with water. You have a full glass of liquid with your meal but only half a glass of juice so, therefore, only half the sugar.

[Bazile]

Say a glass of apple juice contains 3 spoons of sugar .

How is adding any amount of water going to reduce the 3 spoons of sugar ?

[barry1010]

If it's a full glass you can't add water. Tip half the juice out and top it up with water.
Are you trying to wind us up, Baz?

[bhg481]

You get an empty glass and pour half of your drink into that. You then top up the glass with water and drink it. You have just drunk a glass of liquid which contains only half of the sugar that you had in the first place. The following day you top up the other half-full glass with water and drink that. You have now drunk the original glass of juice but it has taken you two days.

[bednobs]

Baz, im not sure if you are deliberately misunderstanding or what. Most people (i think!) who normally drink say 8 glasses of liquid a day, arent going to suddenly be drinking 16 glasses because they diluted their juice by half.
In your example if a glass of aple juice had 3 spoons of sugar, you wouldnt be able to add water to it as it's already a glass full f apple juice. but if you diluted it to 50% with water, and still drank a glass of drink, you'd have halved your sugar. As i said i didnt see the prog, but i doubt they were suggesting that water somehow manages to make the sugar in juice disappear!

[naomi24]

Bazile. Fill a glass with juice you have three spoons of sugar. Half fill a glass with juice and top it up with water you only have 1.5 spoons of sugar.

In order to drink three spoons of sugar as you would if you had a full glass of juice, you would have to drink two glasses of the latter.

[Bazile]

//Bazile. Fill a glass with juice you have three spoons of sugar. Half fill a glass with juice and top it up with water you only have 1.5 spoons of sugar.//

If half a glass contains 2 spoonful of sugar -then topping the glass to full, of water doesn't change the amount of sugar in the glass does it .
It's still got 2 spoonful of sugar in it

[gingejbee]

Good grief...This can only be a deliberate wind-up.
Surely nobody can find such a simple concept, so difficult!

[naomi24]

Bazile. But if you filled the whole glass with juice you would have four spoons of sugar. Therefore diluting the juice with 50% water halves the amount of sugar by 50% because the water doesn’t contain sugar.

[bobbinwales]

bazile is assumimg we'll drink twice as much liquid and therefore get twice asmuch sugar.
Others assuming they;ll just drink same amount of liquid(half fruit juice half water)
The truth may be somewhere in between,

[bobbinwales]

sorry...meant to start with
//bazile is assuming we'll drink twice as much liquid and therefore get SAME AMOUNT sugar.//

[Atheist]

Baz... You must have understood by now. If not, then you're a bit slow on the uptake. If yes, then you're taking the puss.

[Prudie]

Reminds me of this

[Canary42]

Yes Prudie, I saw that ages ago, and this thread does indeed seem the same "misunderstanding".

[Bazile]

Diluting juice doesn't magically make it contain less sugar, there is still the same amount of sugar in a larger volume of liquid.

[naomi24]

There is - but in order to get the full amount of sugar you'd have to drink twice the amount of diluted juice. I honestly can't see why you don't get that.

[maggiebee]

Buy sugar free - saves faffing about.

[pastafreak]

Read these...please

https://justjuice.org/dilute-juice-with-water/

https://www.sugarbyhalf.com/6_surprising_ways_to_cut_your_sugar_intake_in_half

[Bazile]

The question was asked - how can you reduce your sugar intake .

The bloke said if you're having a juice drink then just add water to it .

[naomi24]

That's right. If you drink one full glass of juice a day with two spoons of sugar in it, you'll be drinking two spoons of sugar.

If you drink half a glass of juice topped up with water to make a full glass of liquid, you'll only be drinking one spoon of sugar.