Comments on: Cut the Corny Crap http://leesean.net/2009/07/21/cut-the-corny-crap/ The Life of an Artist-Activist-Musician-Nerd Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:15:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Glasser http://leesean.net/2009/07/21/cut-the-corny-crap/comment-page-1/#comment-71789 David Glasser Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:40:52 +0000 http://leesean.net/?p=2313#comment-71789 I'll drink (first juice) to that. And if you or any of your readers want to sample First Juice, email me! david@firstjuice.com Tasting what can be, without sll the sugar & sweetness, is a liberating and healthy experience. I’ll drink (first juice) to that.

And if you or any of your readers want to sample First Juice, email me!

david@firstjuice.com

Tasting what can be, without sll the sugar & sweetness, is a liberating and healthy experience.

]]> By: leesean http://leesean.net/2009/07/21/cut-the-corny-crap/comment-page-1/#comment-71745 leesean Wed, 22 Jul 2009 15:20:05 +0000 http://leesean.net/?p=2313#comment-71745 Thanks for the clarification David. Sounds like your company is doing some good work to introduce healthier options for parents to give to their kids. I was specifically targeting soda and juice drinks containing HFCS and propose that the absurd loop that is the subsidy/tax structure around corn be closed. If a soda/juice drink tax is to be passed, it should only be on drinks with added sugar or HFCS. Thanks for the clarification David. Sounds like your company is doing some good work to introduce healthier options for parents to give to their kids. I was specifically targeting soda and juice drinks containing HFCS and propose that the absurd loop that is the subsidy/tax structure around corn be closed. If a soda/juice drink tax is to be passed, it should only be on drinks with added sugar or HFCS.

]]> By: David Glasser http://leesean.net/2009/07/21/cut-the-corny-crap/comment-page-1/#comment-71736 David Glasser Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:07:22 +0000 http://leesean.net/?p=2313#comment-71736 Not here to argue, just to correct some mis-information in your post, and to offer some additional info. Any juice that is not 100% juice has to legally be called a "juice drink" or a "juice beverage" or something other than "juice." It has nothing to do with what you add, such as sugar or HFCS or splenda. I make "juice beverages" for young children. HOWEVER, I am concerned about being lumped in with folks like those you mention, who add all kinds of "supplemental" sweeteners to juice. I DO NOT! First Juice flavors are 43-49% juice, and designed to NOT TASTE SWEET, and we are the ONLY ones we know of IN THE WORLD doing this. Our juices are certified organic, certified kosher and are the best you can buy off the shelf and hand your child. By not tasting sweet, First Juice can help steer developing tastebuds AWAY from craving sweet tastes and sugar. There is a global childhood obesity epidemic, Type 2 diabetes will effect 1 in 3 children born after 2000 (ADA data) and some of us are trying to do something about it! Please do not lump my brand in with everyone else!! Please correct the generalization that all juice drinks are junk. Most are, just not all. Parents need to learn how to read the SUGAR content on a nutrition facts panel--- and to know this WOW factoid: a cube of sugar = 3.6 grams of sugar. This is the same amount of sugar that is in a packet for your coffee or a teaspoon in your kitchen. An 8 oz serving of 100% Apple Juice has 27g sugar, or 7.5 cubes. Who (if you knew this) would hand box after box of this to their kid? Would you put that in your coffee? I wrote Gov Patterson in NY to please be sure to exclude those of us trying to help parents cultivate healthy food taste preference development by steering kids away from sugar and to not inadvertently "throw me under the bus" while he was taxing soda just because my juice is not 100% juice. 100% juice has too much naturally occurring sugar for children who's palates are developing the taste preferences that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. Yes, there is science behind that fact. I am happy to send you samples to taste. Our juices TASTE GREAT, and are less than 1/2 the sugar of sweet tasting alternatives. To a large extent it's what you get used to. Some adults find our juice blends lacking enough taste-- because they've been drinking too much sugar their whole lives... Let's stop the madness! Thanks, David Not here to argue, just to correct some mis-information in your post, and to offer some additional info.

Any juice that is not 100% juice has to legally be called a “juice drink” or a “juice beverage” or something other than “juice.”

It has nothing to do with what you add, such as sugar or HFCS or splenda.

I make “juice beverages” for young children. HOWEVER, I am concerned about being lumped in with folks like those you mention, who add all kinds of “supplemental” sweeteners to juice.

I DO NOT!

First Juice flavors are 43-49% juice, and designed to NOT TASTE SWEET, and we are the ONLY ones we know of IN THE WORLD doing this. Our juices are certified organic, certified kosher and are the best you can buy off the shelf and hand your child. By not tasting sweet, First Juice can help steer developing tastebuds AWAY from craving sweet tastes and sugar.

There is a global childhood obesity epidemic, Type 2 diabetes will effect 1 in 3 children born after 2000 (ADA data) and some of us are trying to do something about it! Please do not lump my brand in with everyone else!!

Please correct the generalization that all juice drinks are junk. Most are, just not all.

Parents need to learn how to read the SUGAR content on a nutrition facts panel— and to know this WOW factoid: a cube of sugar = 3.6 grams of sugar. This is the same amount of sugar that is in a packet for your coffee or a teaspoon in your kitchen.

An 8 oz serving of 100% Apple Juice has 27g sugar, or 7.5 cubes. Who (if you knew this) would hand box after box of this to their kid? Would you put that in your coffee?

I wrote Gov Patterson in NY to please be sure to exclude those of us trying to help parents cultivate healthy food taste preference development by steering kids away from sugar and to not inadvertently “throw me under the bus” while he was taxing soda just because my juice is not 100% juice. 100% juice has too much naturally occurring sugar for children who’s palates are developing the taste preferences that will stay with them for the rest of their lives. Yes, there is science behind that fact.

I am happy to send you samples to taste. Our juices TASTE GREAT, and are less than 1/2 the sugar of sweet tasting alternatives.

To a large extent it’s what you get used to. Some adults find our juice blends lacking enough taste– because they’ve been drinking too much sugar their whole lives…

Let’s stop the madness!

Thanks,
David

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