For a keto diet, that's like half your carbohydrates for the day
I mean, that's a lot of carbohydrates in just one cup of orange juice
But actually, orange juice too, I didn't realize this, one cup has a lot of sugar
Hi, this is Anita from Reluctant Low Carb Life. You know, one of the hardest things, anyone that's looking to go on the low carb lifestyle
and I get it because, you know, it's not always easy to change
It's not easy to change your way of eating or the way that we've been taught to eat for so many
years. A lot of people ask and say, well, I love orange juice every morning. Can I have my glass
of orange juice? So I actually did some comparison and you can, I'll put a link below to the blog
that I wrote about. And I answered the question, is there a low carb orange juice? I really learned
a lot of interesting things. I went through and looked at the nutritional content or the
nutritional facts for orange juices, Tropicana, Minute Maid, Florida's Natural Orange Juice
Trader Joe's Organic Cold Press Orange Juice, and Simply Orange Juice. So, you know, some of the basic orange juices that you will see in most grocery stores
And the thing that I learned is all orange juice is pretty much the same. I mean
there's a few minor differences between them, but all orange juices are pretty much the same
And I want to explain to you why you should not be drinking orange juice on a low carb or a keto
diet. The fact is that one cup of orange juice, which is only about eight ounces and face it
you know, if you love orange juice, you know, you're probably not just drinking one cup because
one cup really is not very much orange juice. Even McDonald's small orange juice is more than
one cup of orange juice. So if you go to McDonald's and get their small orange juice
you are drinking more than a cup of orange juice. And one cup of orange juice has between 25 to 27
grams of carbohydrates. Now, if you're on a low carb diet, that's a lot of carbohydrates. That's
like for a keto diet, that's like half your carbohydrates for the day. I mean, that's a lot
of carbohydrates in just one cup of orange juice, but actually orange juice too. I didn't realize
this one cup has a lot of sugar and yes, it is natural sugar, which is sugar, which is
you know, better for you because it's coming naturally from the fruit. It's not added sugar
but there is a lot of sugar in orange juice. There's between 21 to 24 grams of sugar in orange
juice. And orange juice though only has about two grams of protein. So you have high carbohydrates
high sugar, hardly any protein at all. That really is quite an interesting combination for a drink
and you're drinking it all. So, you know, most people don't just drink a cup. They're going to
drink more than one cup of orange juice. So if you're drinking two cups, imagine you would have
drank all your carbohydrates for the day. You would have, you know, drank 50 grams of sugar
and you would have only gotten four grams of protein. So that is why, but yes, the orange juice
does have fiber. It does have vitamin C, which is, you know, if you're, which is, you know
sometimes you need your vitamin C, it does have a lot of other great things with it. You know, looking at all the orange juice, I discovered that all of them are about the same
They're all very similar calories. One cup of orange juice, about 110 calories, pretty much
give or take. And, you know, some of them, you know, might have 25 grams, some of 27 grams of
carbohydrates, but they're all very similar in their gram count that they have. Even the Trader
Joe's organic cold press. I thought, well, Trader Joe's, maybe their organic cold press is different
but they have a whole bottle. So it's one serving is 12 fluid ounces. So for that one bottle
you're drinking 170 calories, which if you're on a calorie diet, isn't that bad, but your, your total
grams for that one bottle of cold press is 39 grams and 31 grams of sugar. If it's only one cup
if you only decide you're just going to drink a cup of it, it's 26 grams or 21 grams. So it's
about the same as any other orange juice that you can get. So just because it says cold press
and it's got the Trader Joe's name, doesn't mean that's necessarily a good low carb option. So
orange juice is definitely something you should not have on your list. If you're going to be on
the low carb or the keto lifestyle, this is the Nita where we talk about all things to do with
living a low carb or keto lifestyle. We realize that a lot of people can be reluctant to get on
those lifestyles. So this is about us giving you real information to help you to