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Minute Maid 100% Orange Juice
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How much sugar is in Minute Maid 100% Orange Juice?
One 355 ml serving contains 36 g of sugar. That works out at roughly 9 sugar cubes, or 72 % of the 50 g daily orientation value.
- Brand
- Minute Maid
- Serving
- Bottle · 355 ml
- Sugar per 100 ml
- 10.1 g
- Market
- United States
About Minute Maid 100% Orange Juice
100% juice with no sugar added — every one of the 10.1 g per 100 ml comes from the oranges themselves. That distinction matters a great deal on the label and not at all on the scale: a 12 fl oz bottle still puts 36 g there, about what a can of cola carries. The WHO counts the sugars in fruit juice as free sugars for exactly this reason.
Is that a lot of sugar?
Concentration
Medium sugar
10.1 g of sugar per 100 ml. The UK front-of-pack scheme calls a drink low up to 2.5 g and high above 11.25 g per 100 ml.
In one serving
A meaningful share of a typical day
The 355 ml serving carries 36 g — 72 % of the 50 g daily orientation value.
Overall composition
Nutri-Score E
Computed by Open Food Facts using the published Nutri-Score algorithm. Not assigned or endorsed by the manufacturer.
Nutri-Score grades the whole nutritional composition per 100 — energy, sugars, saturated fat and salt against fibre, protein and fruit or vegetable content — on a scale from A to E. It is a European front-of-pack scheme. It rates a product, not a diet, and says nothing about how much of it you drink.
Concentration follows the UK Department of Health front-of-pack thresholds for total sugars. The serving reading follows the WHO orientation value for free sugars. Nutri-Score is reproduced from the source named above. All three are applied mechanically to the declared figures for the market shown. None of them is a judgement about the product, and none is medical or dietary advice — what a given amount of sugar means for you depends on your whole diet and circumstances.
Nutrition facts for Minute Maid 100% Orange Juice
| Per | 100 ml | 355 ml |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 206 kJ / 48 kcal | 731 kJ / 170 kcal |
| Fat | 0 g | 0 g |
| of which saturates | — | — |
| Carbohydrate | 11.3 g | 40 g |
| of which sugars | 10.1 g | 36 g |
| Fibre | — | — |
| Protein | 0.9 g | 3 g |
| Salt | 0.02 g | 0.06 g |
What is in Minute Maid 100% Orange Juice?
Pure filtered water, concentrated orange juice, vitamin C (ascorbic acid).
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Bottle · 355 ml
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Common questions about Minute Maid 100% Orange Juice
- How much sugar is in Minute Maid 100% Orange Juice?
- One 355 ml serving contains 36 g of sugar, which is 10.1 g per 100 ml.
- How many sugar cubes is that?
- Roughly 9 cubes at 4 g each, or 72 % of the WHO orientation value of 50 g of free sugars a day.
- How many calories are in Minute Maid 100% Orange Juice?
- One 355 ml serving provides about 170 kcal (731 kJ).
- What Nutri-Score does Minute Maid 100% Orange Juice have?
- Nutri-Score E, as computed by Open Food Facts using the published algorithm. It rates the nutritional composition per 100, not a whole diet.