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Germany plans sugar tax that includes sugar free drinks (brusselssignal.eu)

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[-] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 12 hours ago

At my grocery store it’s $.08/oz for Coke and .04/oz for orange juice.

Ask yourself: if you added the same nutrients that are in juice to coca cola, would coca cola now be "healthy"?

The amount of free sugars is what makes soda so bad. So if you switched the types of sugars in soda, then yes, it literally would be better for you than it currently is. Coke has food dyes in it that make your comparison not equal.

I didn’t say juice was “healthy”.

[-] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago

Yes, orange juice is more expensive, but apple juice is on par cost wise, so it makes sense to consider taxing it.

12 fl oz of coke has 39 grams of sugar. 12oz of apple juice has 35g of sugar. Less, but about the same.

So the question comes down to is sucrose really that much worse for you than fructose.

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