Juice is often seen as a children’s drink, but it is not recommended for kids—or adults! In fact, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has changed its stance on juice and now recommends that infants and toddlers not be given any juice, and even older kids should have a very limited amount, if any at all. The reason is because juice is highly processed and the fruit itself is stripped of nearly all its nutritional benefits. There is no longer fiber, and therefore it requires little to no mechanical digestion from the mouth (chewing). This makes it yet another high source of liquid sugar in
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