100% fruit juice does not cause weight gain in children: Study

This is also not same as fruit drinks which have added sugars; can be as harmful as drinking sodas

Children who drink one serving of 100 per cent fruit juice a day don’t appear to gain significantly more weight than kids who consume no juice at all, a research review suggests.

Even though previous studies on fruit juice and weight gain have gotten mixed results, doctors often tell parents to avoid juices with added sugars and other ingredients altogether and to limit 100 per cent fruit juice to a single serving a day.

In the current study, one 6- to 8-ounce serving of 100 per cent fruit juice was associated with a small amount of weight gain in kids 1 to