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What if the "healthy" juice boxes you pack in your child's lunchbox are actually worse than soda?
Dr. Ana Maria exposes the shocking truth about juice boxes that the food industry doesn't want parents to know. Even organic juice boxes are essentially liquid sugar. But it gets worse: the pasteurization process involves boiling the juice at high temperatures before putting it into plastic containers, potentially releasing BPA into your child's drink.
In this eye-opening episode, learn about Dr. Ana Maria's brilliant experiment with 6-year-olds and highlighters that changed everything. She taught kids to highlight ingredients they could read on Lunchables - if less than 50% could be highlighted, she called it a "chemical experiment" rather than food. This is the wake-up call every parent needs about what's really in their child's lunch ...