A glass of apple juice is more calories than I’m willing to spend on a single drink that isn’t wine. :)

Also, it’s interesting to note that some ‘health food’ products are available that are sweetened with fruit juice instead of sugar. Some soya milks are, and some cereal bars and the like.

If you need a substitute for refined sugar, there are granulated ‘Fruit Sugar’ available, they tend to be twice as sweet, so quantity adjustment is required, but I’ve had great results with them for baking etc.

You have orange juice twice. USDA (which is what I use) matches up exactly with your higher value one at 108 calories etc.

240ml of lemon juice is a lot to try to drink! Juice of one lemon is 12 calories – topped up with water seems a much more likely option. 0.18 protein, 4.06 carbs, 0 fat, 0.2 fiber

I’d like to pop by the shops to check V8 though – it may be there are different versions but I’m pretty sure I dismissed it when shopping as too high per serving to consider as an alternative. If I misread, then it’s something I’d like to have in.

It’s not just a case of calorie counting, as Simon says, but it is certainly a tie-breaker once the initial considerations have been made.

If you are avoiding refined sugars, what would you put in? Lemonade with honey sounds a bit off-putting!

Some of these get their calories from pure refined sugar, corn syrup, all manner of other process sugars. Something to avoid?

Some of the low calorie drinks contain aspartame, or other artificial sweeteners. Something to avoid?

Some of these contain zero added anything, they’re just juice as nature intended.

And of course, some get their calories from fat and protein – the milky ones! (I’m presuming this is cows milk, what about goat / soya / rice / etc ’substitutes’?)

It’s pure fruit juice 99% of the time for me! Juicing at home is great fun too, yesterday I juiced pear, carrot, celery and beetroot.