Quote Originally Posted by triflor
Diet soda is garbage compared to juice. Yeah juice may give you some extra calories but they aren't empty calories. Orange juice is going to give you vitamins and fiber! We all need more fiber.
You're right - diet soda provides no nutrients. But sometimes that's what I want to drink. And in moderation, I think that's OK. After all, we all have to make our own choices. And you're absolutely right that we all need a good amount of fiber. I usually get mine from cereal and from fresh fruit.

I usually choose fresh fruit over juice. And I was very curious about your statement that you get fiber from orange juice. I wasn't aware that there was any fiber at all in orange juice, so I went and looked it up. (My source for this information was http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/etext/000020.html.)

What I found was that 1 raw orange (with a diameter of 2 7/8 inches) provides 69 calories and 3.1 grams of fiber. An 8 ounce glass of orange juice (raw, from the fruit as opposed to concentrate) was 112 calories and had only 0.5 grams of fiber. Maybe you're drinking some kind of juice that has fiber added?

--- Denise