ReviewNutrients2019
Are Fruit Juices Healthier Than Sugar-Sweetened Beverages? A Review.
Review in Nutrients, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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44 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 85 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Association of Sweetened Beverages with Risk of Osteoporosis and First Fractures: Evidence from the United Kingdom Biobank.Calcified tissue international · 2026Article
- Formulation of Personalized, Fortified Beverage Nanoemulsions for Space Exploration with Omega‑3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids.ACS food science & technology · 2026Article
- Metabolomic profiling of goji fermentation: enhancing functional metabolites with high-glucose-adaptive LAB.NPJ science of food · 2026Article
- High consumption of fruit and vegetable juices and related beverages and high sugar intake among school-aged children: a study in Beijing, China.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- A dietary modelling approach to examine the impact on vitamin C intakes in the United Kingdom with varying consumption of fruit juice.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Associations of sugary beverage intake with type 2 diabetes and the role of physical activity: a prospective cohort study.Nutrition journal · 2024Article
- Modelling the potential impact of a tax on fruit juice in South Africa: implications for the primary prevention of type 2 diabetes and health financing.BMC nutrition · 2024Article
- Exploring Sugary Drink Consumption and Perceptions among Primary-School-Aged Children and Parents in Australia.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Age of Juice Introduction and Cardiometabolic Outcomes in Middle Childhood.The Journal of nutrition · 2024Observational
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- Healthier Dietary Patterns Are Associated with Better Sleep Quality among Shanghai Suburban Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Effect of 100% Orange Juice and a Volume-Matched Sugar-Sweetened Drink on Subjective Appetite, Food Intake, and Glycemic Response in Adults.Nutrients · 2024Article
- The influence of different forms of apple products on all-cause mortality in patients with hypertension.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Sugar lowering in fermented apple-pear juice orchestrates a promising metabolic answer in the gut microbiome and intestinal integrity.Current research in food science · 2024Article
- Association of a healthy beverage score with total mortality in the adult population of Spain: A nationwide cohort study.PLoS medicine · 2024Observational
- Combined fructose and sucrose consumption from an early age aggravates cardiac oxidative damage and causes a dilated cardiomyopathy in SHR rats.Journal of clinical biochemistry and nutrition · 2023Article
- Comparing Lifestyle Modifications and the Magnitude of Their Associated Benefit on Cancer Mortality.Nutrients · 2023Review
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Abstract
Free sugars overconsumption is associated with an increased prevalence of risk factors for metabolic diseases such as the alteration of the blood lipid levels. Natural fruit juices have a free sugar composition quite similar to that of sugar-sweetened beverages. Thus, could fruit juice consumption lead to the same adverse effects on health as sweetened beverages? We attempted to answer this question by reviewing the available evidence on the health effects of both sugar-sweetened beverages and natural fruit juices. We determined that, despite the similarity of fruits juices to sugar-sweetened beverages in terms of free sugars content, it remains unclear whether they lead to the same metabolic consequences if consumed in equal dose. Important discrepancies between studies, such as type of fruit juice, dose, duration, study design, and measured outcomes, make it impossible to provide evidence-based public recommendations as to whether the consumption of fruit juices alters the blood lipid profile. More randomized controlled trials comparing the metabolic effects of fruit juice and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption are needed to shape accurate public health guidelines on the variety and quantity of free sugars in our diet that would help to prevent the development of obesity and related health problems.
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