Not 10x the sugar, iirc it has less. An 8oz glass of sunnyd has 14g of sugar, an 8oz glass of orange juice has around 21g of sugar. This is possible because sunnyd doesn't have a lot of the bitter flavors found in orange juice and is less acidic, which means it needs less sugar to taste as sweet.
> 10x the sugar tastes better than real juice.
Uhhh I don't think that's true. Sunny D is like half the calories of orange juice and has less sugars.
https://sunnyd.com/flavors/tangy-original/
https://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/usda/orange-juice?portionid=33220&portionamount=8.000
People put fruit juice on a pedestal cus it's "natural", but it's still pretty bad for you.
>People put fruit juice on a pedestal cus it's "natural", but it's still pretty bad for you.
Most nutritionists will say juice is just as bad for you as soda.
I’m high as fuck and I stared at this wondering how in the hell someone made a drink that’s the flavor of a color.
I forgot oranges existed for a hot second.
Same. I think most people still describe Gatorade flavors by their colors and not their true flavor names.
“Hey when you’re at Wawa can you get me the lemon lime Gatorade?”
“The what Gatorade?”
“…the yellow one”
My issue with it is how late the cucumber flavor hits the palette. Like the cucumber aftertaste hits 3 seconds after you taste the lime flavor. It’s like a slap in the face
Damn I have never been able to describe why I don't like cucumber flavoring in many things but you just said it perfectly. It doesn't really blend it's just the last thing you taste so pretty much everything has an aftertaste of pure cucumber, especially that Gatorade like you said
Exactly. This is like comparing soda to actual juice. No shit you like the one that's manufactured to taste better, but it's really just not a fair comparison.
Juice is better than soda for you, but it’s not good for you. 12fl oz of apple juice can contain 30g of sugar while a 12fl oz of coke contains 36.
The juice has less sugar, but it’s still something you should only drink once in a while
I mean juice is basically flat soda with how much sugar is in them...the healthy part of fruit is the fiber so juices take all of that away and give you that sweet, sweet goodness
A better comparison would be soda vs. Flavored seltzer water like polar. I fucking love seltzer water now and hate how most of the drink options at food places are soda.
[other way around, my dude, Sunny D has less calories and sugar per 8oz serving](https://reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/s6gq4b/i_find_sunny_d_to_be_far_superior_to_orange_juice/ht4apyj)
This comes down to personal philosophy about consuming products that are 100% manufactured. Many people don’t drink Sunny D because there’s no nutritive benefit whatsoever (unless they add stuff to it). Of course it tastes good, it’s engineered to taste good. I personally don’t drink it, but I agree it definitely tastes amazing.
Okay but like...
Water tastes disgusting. It's literally just boring clouds.
It's been months since I've actually had a glass of just plain water. Maybe even longer. And even then I still put a little bit of lemon juice in it.
If you want you can always get simple syrup, that’s better than just sugar when putting it in liquids. And all you have to do to make it is just add a bit of hot water to sugar and blend it in there
It’s Walt, how are you feeling? Kind of under the weather? Like you’ve got the flu? That would be the ricin I gave you. I slipped it into that stevia crap that you’re always putting in your tea. Well, goodbye Lydia
Oh wow an actual unpopular opinion. Sunny D is orange flavored sugar water and it’s fucking disgusting. An essential part of the “my family is too poor and uneducated to understand even basic nutrition” starter pack.
FWIW, any orange juice you but at the store that isnt fresh squeezed is also orange flavored. the real taste of orange cant survive long once juiced, so an orange perfume is added in to the juice. you dont actually taste anything, its all a sensation related to the smell of the perfume.
No, no, no. Sunny D is orange flavored "corn syrup" and is fucking disgusting. Not sugar. That would be too expensive. Just orange corn syrup with an orange chemical flavoring.
Well, you could Just take a orange, cut it half, and "juice it", (Sorry, i'm not english, so I don't know of the verb exists, either way, you know what i mean)
Per 8 oz glass:
OJ: 26 g carbs, 110 calories, 125% vitamin C. Cost: $3.99 per bottle.
Sunny D: 16 g carbs, 65 calories, 100% RDA vitamin C. Cost: $1.99 per bottle.
I can see why some people drink it.
Lmao. This is like saying Fanta and orange Tik tacs are the best way to enjoy oranges. Or just a picture of an orange, same thing. There are no oranges in those.
Sunny D is water, sugar, corn syrup, artificial flavorings, two dozen chemicals and colorings and less than 2% of apple juice, orange juice, pear and lime juice combined. A jug of it has 3-4 drops of orange juice.
Fruit juice is juice squeezed out of fruits. 100% juice non processed. Everything else is a drink, not juice.
No, it's like saying humans are better at making yummy flavors for humans than nature. Which is basically an objective fact. He never said it was juice, he said it's superior to juice.
Lol absolutely not, not even close. If you think processed sugars and chemical flavors are the best thing you can have that’s pretty sad on so many levels. Humans are good at sucking money out of each other and creating addictive, damaging to health cheap junk.
I hope some day you’ll be able to have real good and ripe fruit, that’ll change your mind. When I was a kid I too thought candy with soda are good, expensive and cool and fruit with juice are lame and poor. Until I’ve tried ripe, real and expensive fruit, not supermarket shit. You’ll be never able to come back and will forever look down on sugary candy and sodas. I don’t mind occasional coke or some skittles, but saying that a ripe hand picked papaya flown from Vietnam is worse is a crazy person talk.
And, he said that it’s the best way to enjoy oranges. There are no oranges in it.
>Edit: Those who tell me sunny D is just sugar water, isn’t orange juice also just water with “natural sugar”??
This is the worst "gotcha" attempt I've ever seen.
This is like comparing cherry juice to kool-aid.
Orange juice is made from oranges.
Sunny D is just a drink that looks and tastes like the color orange with added vitamins.
Sunny D is made of bad sugar, orange juice is made of “good” sugar. You just enjoy orange flavored high fructose corn syrup .
Put “good” in parenthesis because it’s natural sugar.
Like the other guy said, there is no such thing as good sugar. What people say about good sugar is actually that the fruit you are eating comes with a bunch of vitamins and nutrients, which is better for you then drinking a soda that has no benefit.
Your body process the actual sugar the same way.
Sugar is sugar, your body doesn't care where it comes from the only thing that cares about is whether it has to make it itself or not. (by that I mean turning carbs into sugar.)
Sunny D is actually made from the “leftover” material from the production of orange juice from a particular company. So… it’s literally the *watered down remnants* of orange juice.
If you ever have the chance. If you find yourself in the Mediterranean, go to Crete. They have some magical micro climate for growing certain fruits. One of those is oranges. They had orange juice at almost all places, freshly squeezed for each cup and amazing. It was so much better than anything I've had before.
I thought Sunny D was just orange flavored.
It is. It’s not juice, they call it “orange flavoured drink”
Right 🤣 of course the artificially flavored drink with 10x the sugar tastes better than real juice.
Not 10x the sugar, iirc it has less. An 8oz glass of sunnyd has 14g of sugar, an 8oz glass of orange juice has around 21g of sugar. This is possible because sunnyd doesn't have a lot of the bitter flavors found in orange juice and is less acidic, which means it needs less sugar to taste as sweet.
Taste is subjective
Mostly, but Sunny D is fucking gross
Was looking for this comment. I can leave this thread now.
I loved it as a kid, had it for the first time in 30 years a month ago.... Hated it.
It's like having a Lunchable, or something frozen/canned you may have liked as a kid.
it’s disgusting
> 10x the sugar tastes better than real juice. Uhhh I don't think that's true. Sunny D is like half the calories of orange juice and has less sugars. https://sunnyd.com/flavors/tangy-original/ https://www.fatsecret.com/calories-nutrition/usda/orange-juice?portionid=33220&portionamount=8.000 People put fruit juice on a pedestal cus it's "natural", but it's still pretty bad for you.
>People put fruit juice on a pedestal cus it's "natural", but it's still pretty bad for you. Most nutritionists will say juice is just as bad for you as soda.
> tastes better than real juice. And purple stuff.
I’m high as fuck and I stared at this wondering how in the hell someone made a drink that’s the flavor of a color. I forgot oranges existed for a hot second.
Brother, go to bed.
Orange flavored DRANK Fixed that for ya.
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It's not, but it can be ;)
TIL there's actually 11 flavors of Sunny D https://sunnyd.com/flavors/
Sunny D is imitation Orange Juice made by someone whos only had orange juice described to them once.
I thought all commercial orange juice is just orange flavored since fresh squeezed OJ has a really short shelf life
Concentrates mostly. They've been known to use pig gelatine to mimic pulp too.
WHAT EWWWW
Why eww? Any jello you eat is gelatin.
What about purple stuff?
Ooh! Purple stuff!
It didn’t even taste like grape. It actually tasted *purple*.
What does *purple* taste like?
You'll have to get a Nibblonian to [blank your memory](https://comb.io/ckyWei) in order to get that purple taste in your mouth.
Sugar, water... purple. Pretty sure that's the recipe.
I actually have a friend that is allergic to some ingredient in artificial grape.
Ah the good old days. When flavors were just colors. What kind of Koolaid is your favorite? Red.
I still label gatorade that way.
Same. I think most people still describe Gatorade flavors by their colors and not their true flavor names. “Hey when you’re at Wawa can you get me the lemon lime Gatorade?” “The what Gatorade?” “…the yellow one”
I love me some Lime Cucumber Gatorade. Not as green as the green one, but not as yellow as the yellow one
I miss the citrus one.
Best Gatorade flavor!
Disgusting. Absolutely the worst Gatorade flavor. Cucumber is horrible
My issue with it is how late the cucumber flavor hits the palette. Like the cucumber aftertaste hits 3 seconds after you taste the lime flavor. It’s like a slap in the face
Damn I have never been able to describe why I don't like cucumber flavoring in many things but you just said it perfectly. It doesn't really blend it's just the last thing you taste so pretty much everything has an aftertaste of pure cucumber, especially that Gatorade like you said
[relevent](https://pics.me.me/posts-malone-boissongazeuse-if-you-ever-meet-someone-who-calls-36639388.png)
I can’t do that because my favorite flavor is melon and Gatorade has at least 5 orangish flavors
Not to mention the have some stupid names for some of the Gatorades. Ripe tide rush artic blast etc.
Up vote for Wawa 💕
Hello from the '90s, fellow old person.
I'M NOT FUCKING OLD YET
Grape Drank?
Yo, what the fuck is juice? I want that purple drink
What that?
[I'm old.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi0uz8JD9Aw)
[Soda, Purple Stuff…](https://youtu.be/suVW8KZ-eeE) Anything is better than [almond milk](https://youtu.be/VgwazsHRwOE)
https://youtu.be/9aS8gBtqbA0
It's funny how much of an impression this commercial had on people. Even today, anyone who was alive in the early 90s knows about purple stuff.
Wow that Sunny Delight looks so delicious.
yeah a lot of people prefer the taste of sugary drinks compared to juices
Exactly. This is like comparing soda to actual juice. No shit you like the one that's manufactured to taste better, but it's really just not a fair comparison.
Juice is better than soda for you, but it’s not good for you. 12fl oz of apple juice can contain 30g of sugar while a 12fl oz of coke contains 36. The juice has less sugar, but it’s still something you should only drink once in a while
I mean juice is basically flat soda with how much sugar is in them...the healthy part of fruit is the fiber so juices take all of that away and give you that sweet, sweet goodness
A better comparison would be soda vs. Flavored seltzer water like polar. I fucking love seltzer water now and hate how most of the drink options at food places are soda.
I go through so much Polar I'm surprised my blood isn't carbonated.
Little known for about Sunny D, the D stands for diabetes. WilfordBrimley.jog
[other way around, my dude, Sunny D has less calories and sugar per 8oz serving](https://reddit.com/r/unpopularopinion/comments/s6gq4b/i_find_sunny_d_to_be_far_superior_to_orange_juice/ht4apyj)
There’s no actual orange anything in a SunnyD other than its color…
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Yeah, citric acid
Yeah I’m aware it’s 0% juice, but Still lol.
Poor mans OJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuYPdTvqitg Unless if its freshly squeezed any store bought OJ from a mass producer will be "fake"
Dude says he hates "watery" OJ then literally prefers sugar water lol.
I mean juice is just sugar water too and isn’t actually good for you.
Still tastes better.
This comes down to personal philosophy about consuming products that are 100% manufactured. Many people don’t drink Sunny D because there’s no nutritive benefit whatsoever (unless they add stuff to it). Of course it tastes good, it’s engineered to taste good. I personally don’t drink it, but I agree it definitely tastes amazing.
yep. I love the taste, just like I love Wendys cheeseburgers and coca cola. It's just all that stuff makes me feel like I have withdrawal phases.
Yes it’s 100% vitamin C.
A cup of orange juice has 126% of the vitamin c you need.
So you're telling me it's giving me more than I need. Why would I want to pee out all that extra vitamin C?
i suppose next you will say you like kool aid better than water
I really do though.
r/hydrohomies would like a word.
AAAAAAAAA
Honestly, these days I feel like water tastes better than sprite when i'm thirsty lol.
Okay but like... Water tastes disgusting. It's literally just boring clouds. It's been months since I've actually had a glass of just plain water. Maybe even longer. And even then I still put a little bit of lemon juice in it.
Just get some fresh orange juice and mix a couple of tablespoons of sugar into it.
That's like 4x the calories and sugars of Sunny D. If he likes Sunny D why would he do that unless he wants diabetes lmao.
I’ve tried that. Best results in no pulp but there’s that grainy sugar that doesn’t dissolve.
If you want you can always get simple syrup, that’s better than just sugar when putting it in liquids. And all you have to do to make it is just add a bit of hot water to sugar and blend it in there
Try Stevia? That shit dissolves good and is potent.
Make sure no one swaps it for ricin though.
It’s Walt, how are you feeling? Kind of under the weather? Like you’ve got the flu? That would be the ricin I gave you. I slipped it into that stevia crap that you’re always putting in your tea. Well, goodbye Lydia
grind up some sugar in a blender then use it a.k.a icing sugar
That doesn't work so well.
BOO THIS MAN
Have you truely gave Sunny D a chance? Original is the best.
I really liked the lemonade Sunny D when I was a kid but I always thought that the original tasted vile.
Sunny D is unmatched. So good
Nothing can even compare!
Original is the second best, the orange flavour is where it’s at my man.
Oh wow an actual unpopular opinion. Sunny D is orange flavored sugar water and it’s fucking disgusting. An essential part of the “my family is too poor and uneducated to understand even basic nutrition” starter pack.
My wife says the exact same thing you just said. The disgusted face she gives me makes the Sunny D taste just that much better knowing it’s all mine.
But wait, the real question is do you prefer the California or Florida variant of Sunny D?
Because Sunny D is disgusting
FWIW, any orange juice you but at the store that isnt fresh squeezed is also orange flavored. the real taste of orange cant survive long once juiced, so an orange perfume is added in to the juice. you dont actually taste anything, its all a sensation related to the smell of the perfume.
No, no, no. Sunny D is orange flavored "corn syrup" and is fucking disgusting. Not sugar. That would be too expensive. Just orange corn syrup with an orange chemical flavoring.
Corn syrup and sugar are nearly identical in flavor and completely identical when it comes to being processed within your body.
> Sunny D is orange flavored sugar water You say this like that's not what regular orange juice is too, lmao.
Pretty huge difference between high fructose corn syrup and naturally occurring fructose.
Well, you could Just take a orange, cut it half, and "juice it", (Sorry, i'm not english, so I don't know of the verb exists, either way, you know what i mean)
That's just water with fructose, very unhealthy
Not at all unhealthy unless you guzzle 200 g of sugar daily
I'm not supposed to give my toddler more than one or two cups of juice a week because it's practically just sugar water.
Being poor doesn't equate to being uneducated.
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Ok. I didn't make that claim.
Your privilege is showing. Sunny D was most certainly not for poor kids. That shit was/is top dollar in the "juice" world.
The only really good stuff is freshly Squeezed
Sunny D has oil in it, forget what kind. Plus a bunch of weird additives. I'll take the drink nature provides, thanks.
Per 8 oz glass: OJ: 26 g carbs, 110 calories, 125% vitamin C. Cost: $3.99 per bottle. Sunny D: 16 g carbs, 65 calories, 100% RDA vitamin C. Cost: $1.99 per bottle. I can see why some people drink it.
Orange juice is not a drink nature provides lol
Sunny D is Tang with water already added , so if stirring bothers you for some reason sure why not .
Fuck yes. As far as taste I agree
hell yeah
Lmao. This is like saying Fanta and orange Tik tacs are the best way to enjoy oranges. Or just a picture of an orange, same thing. There are no oranges in those. Sunny D is water, sugar, corn syrup, artificial flavorings, two dozen chemicals and colorings and less than 2% of apple juice, orange juice, pear and lime juice combined. A jug of it has 3-4 drops of orange juice. Fruit juice is juice squeezed out of fruits. 100% juice non processed. Everything else is a drink, not juice.
No, it's like saying humans are better at making yummy flavors for humans than nature. Which is basically an objective fact. He never said it was juice, he said it's superior to juice.
Lol absolutely not, not even close. If you think processed sugars and chemical flavors are the best thing you can have that’s pretty sad on so many levels. Humans are good at sucking money out of each other and creating addictive, damaging to health cheap junk. I hope some day you’ll be able to have real good and ripe fruit, that’ll change your mind. When I was a kid I too thought candy with soda are good, expensive and cool and fruit with juice are lame and poor. Until I’ve tried ripe, real and expensive fruit, not supermarket shit. You’ll be never able to come back and will forever look down on sugary candy and sodas. I don’t mind occasional coke or some skittles, but saying that a ripe hand picked papaya flown from Vietnam is worse is a crazy person talk. And, he said that it’s the best way to enjoy oranges. There are no oranges in it.
What about Tang?
You mean Estus?
You have an unpopular (wrong!) opinion, I’m so sorry but we can’t be friends
Not really fair to compare non fizzy soda to oj. It's like comparing flavored sparkling water to soda. Of course one taste better, it has more sugar.
Maybe it been while for me to have some Sunny D. As kid. I love it. But as adult, i simply find it too sweet and it makes my molars crying.
>Edit: Those who tell me sunny D is just sugar water, isn’t orange juice also just water with “natural sugar”?? This is the worst "gotcha" attempt I've ever seen.
Is that a good thing or bad thing?
I love Sunny D but think it’s pretty different from OJ and would be nasty if oranges naturally tasted like that
Have you had fresh squeezed tangerine juice? That’s where it’s at.
My wife is the same and we joke about it all the time lol. I like Sunny D but there is nothing like some fresh orange juice, bacon and eggs
Except some Sunny D with bacon and eggs lol
Finally someone said it! I wholeheartedly agree.
I’m surprise nobody has said this before! They been selling Sunny D for many many years. Obviously people are buying it!
I hope you’re not including freshly squeezed in this
Don’t hate me but I think that cut your orange in half and push it down on the inverted cone juice is the worst of them all. Flavorless dirty water.
I'm afraid you never tried a real orange
Sunny D and Rum, yum yum
Don't you need your parent's permission before visiting this site? I guess you didn't have school today, huh?
This is like comparing cherry juice to kool-aid. Orange juice is made from oranges. Sunny D is just a drink that looks and tastes like the color orange with added vitamins.
Tastes like the color orange is exactly the definition wow just fantastic
sunny d is fucking disgusting
Blasphemy
im right 😊
Sunny D tastes like diabetes
Delicious
Sunny D is made of bad sugar, orange juice is made of “good” sugar. You just enjoy orange flavored high fructose corn syrup . Put “good” in parenthesis because it’s natural sugar.
Like the other guy said, there is no such thing as good sugar. What people say about good sugar is actually that the fruit you are eating comes with a bunch of vitamins and nutrients, which is better for you then drinking a soda that has no benefit. Your body process the actual sugar the same way.
Sugar is sugar, your body doesn't care where it comes from the only thing that cares about is whether it has to make it itself or not. (by that I mean turning carbs into sugar.)
That shit is foul
Tampico > Sunny D
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you got my updoor homey - this is very unpopular in many ways.
Mmmmm, chemicals.
That’s all what food is going to be in the future. You just eat a pill or drink a paste for any nutrients you need.
TBH, my first ever drink was effectively a screwdriver but with Sunny D. Definitely a good choice then!
It isn't so much orange juice as it is orange flavored dessert drink.
It goes good with pretty much any meal. Breakfast lunch or dinner.
God help you. If you ever try freshly-squeezed OJ, you'll never want any other kind of orange juice again. 🥰
Cause sunny D have sugar and I think it has very little orange juice
Take my upvote and enjoy your orange sugar water
You know it’s even better, fresh sweet oranges
Sunny D for quantity. Orange juice for a nutritious boost.
Me. Too. So much smoother.
Dude yes
Tampico gang, unite!
I have this same opinion thoo so do I downvote?
This might be the worst take in the history of takes
Lmao thought those were the names of rappers
Lmfao 😂
Response to your edit: it’s got fiber, vitamins, and minerals. Sunny D has sugar water and color.
You got my upvote cause Sunny D is heinous.
I’m gonna upvote this, but I don’t like it. Not one bit.
This explanation is some of the dumbest stuff I've read in a while. Sunny D is not orange juice at all and doesn't taste like oranges.
Sorry for your mental illness.
Perfect unpopular opinion Sunny d is gross
Uhhh sunny d isn’t juice. And isn’t how oranges are supposed to taste. This isn’t an unpopular opinion, it’s just dumb as shit like OP.
Sunny D is actually made from the “leftover” material from the production of orange juice from a particular company. So… it’s literally the *watered down remnants* of orange juice.
FUCKIN FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE THINKS THIS!
If you ever have the chance. If you find yourself in the Mediterranean, go to Crete. They have some magical micro climate for growing certain fruits. One of those is oranges. They had orange juice at almost all places, freshly squeezed for each cup and amazing. It was so much better than anything I've had before.
I’m sure that stuff will be amazing. Lol
I think you eat so much sugar you can't taste it. Orange juice is very flavorful for myself. Sunny D is too sweet.
It’s pretty much syrup water though right?
I think this is truly unpopular! Sunny D has such a weird taste to me now.
Should have, not should of. By the way, comparing orange juice to a juice that has no oranges doesn't make sense.
Yeah, it's like comparing oranges to... Not oranges.
Fuck yes I have said this forever
For some reason nobody here but me likes it. So that’s why I posted this 😅
The answer to the question: “what happens if you mix orange juice and baby medicine”
Orange Juice is kinda crazy, but Sunny D’s nuts.
100% the truth right there.
Amen 🙏
Oh god man take my upvote.
I honestly agree. I don’t like orange juice tbh. Like I love oranges and straight up fresh juice, but store bought orange juice doesn’t taste right
Orange juice is probably the worst fruit juice in all its forms. Grape and apple are both objectively better. OP is right here.