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

[Atheist]

If you pack a half litre of drink, then the more watery it is the less sugar there is.

[bednobs]

imagine a glass of fruit juice contained the equivalent of 5 tsps of sugar. If you drank it all, you'd have had the equivalent of 5 tsps of sugar. Imagine the same glass with half juice and half water. If you drink it all you'll have had the equivalent of 2.5 tsps of sugar

[Bazile]

Really ?

So where does the sugar dissapear to ?

[Bazile]

My first answer was to Atheist

[bednobs]

i think atheist was making exactly the smae point as me

[Bazile]

Re bednobs

We are not talking about having the amount of fruit juice to start with .

We are talking about using the same amount of juice , but then adding water

[Bazile]

'halving '

[bednobs]

ok well i didnt see the program, but id imagine they meant what i said, rather than what you are saying

[Zacs-Master]

'We are talking about using the same amount of juice , but then adding water'

Yes, thereby reducing your daily intake.

[Bazile]

^^How does that reduce your daily intake ?

If you have 1/2 litre of juice daily ,for example - you then add water .
How is that reducing your daily intake ?

[-SharonA-]

If you have half a litre and add water you nearly got a gallon. You wouldn't 've drinking that whole gallon would you. Just a glass full which contains little juice/sugar & water.

[pastafreak]

If you add an equal amount of water, you'll then have a full litre. If you drink half of that, you'll be consuming half the amount of sugar.

[Zacs-Master]

Because it reduces the concentration of sugar.

For example, without adding water you'd be drinking half a litre with a sugar concentration of, say, 10%. By adding the water it may reduce the sugar content to, say, 7%.

[Dizmo]

Won't said drink taste only 1/2 as good though? Maybe not half as good, but surely it won't taste as nice if it's watered down?

I suspect that Bazile was questioning it because most people know that if you water something down, there will be less of the original ingredients afterwards, not just the sugar.

I guess if the drink is quite strong to begin with, you could water it down a bit, even if you only added a tiny bit of water.

[Bazile]

The half a litre was just for illustration purposes

Substitute that for 200 ml or whatever amount you would drink in a day

[Zacs-Master]

Same answer.

[Redhelen72]

If on a monday you drink 2 litres of pure fruit juice but then on tuesday mix 1 litre of fruit juice with 1 litre of water you have halved your intake of sugars from that drink.

[gingejbee]

Common sense, anybody? Dilute the juice, but drink the same amount that you would have originally...

[Bazile]

As I see it you're taking in the same amount of sugar , whether you add water or not

[barry1010]

Don't know why you are finding it so difficult, Baz

One glass of fruit juice had twice the sugar of one glass of diluted fruit juice