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hey guys dr. Berg here in this video we’re going  to talk about orange juice now you might have  

heard that it’s a health food thing like people  think they’re getting some health benefit from it  

but check this out it has the same amount of sugar  as a can of soda a 12 ounce can of coke there’s  

nine teaspoons of sugar so it’s sugar water so  you say well I’m getting the vitamin C right well  

they have to pasteurize it that means heated at  high temperatures you have to boil it why to kill  

off anything so it can last on the shelf a lot  longer so it can be stored because orange juice  

is seasonal and what happens is they pasteurize  it to last through the whole season so basically  

they severely lower the vitamin C content okay a  lot of times we’ll add ascorbic acid back into the  

vitamin C and you think you’re getting the vitamin  C but it’s just it’s synthetic it’s enriched with  

an artificial C ascorbic acid is one small part of  the vitamin C complex in the stuff that they put  

back in it’s synthetic and it’s made form from  cornstarch which has no vitamin C and sulfuric  

acid and this makes it ascorbic acid  which basically to me my view point it’s not  

really vitamin C it’s an artificial thing so you  get this thing where you have low nutrition high  

sugar and then when they heat it and they have  to pasteurize it you lose some of the flavor  

sometimes they have to add the flavor back in so  I just wanted to kind of reveal what’s behind this  

whole orange juice thing and if you’re going to do  orange juice you know make it yourself but again  

if you’re trying to lose weight it’s not a good  idea but the point is if you do eat the orange by  

itself with all the fiber and everything instead  of a juicing it and taking the pulp away you’ll  

have a much less effective of that insulin  spike as well all right thanks for watching