Top bestselling fruit drinks deemed 'unhealthy' by researchers

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Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Bestselling fruit juice drinks deemed unhealthy by researchers
Bestselling fruit juice drinks deemed unhealthy by researchers: Rick Williams reports during Action News at noon on October 16, 2019.

The top 34 bestselling fruit drinks for kids have been deemed "unhealthy" by researchers.

A new study shows most of the sweetened drinks claim to have a good source of vitamin C, but contain little or no fruit juice.

Most of the drinks which did contain fruit juice capped the amount at just five percent.

One-third of all the sweetened fruit drinks contained at least 16 grams of sugar - more than half of the maximum amount of sugar a child is supposed to consume each day.