Walmart is recalling the Great Value brand of apple juice made by Refresco and sold across the US.

Walmart has recalled nearly 10,000 cases of apple juice sold in stores across the US that were found to contain potentially harmful levels of inorganic arsenic.

  • @MutilationWave
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    321 days ago

    Looks like an abundance of caution, which is a good thing. FDA says the levels were higher than permitted but unlikely to cause illness.

    • @jordanlundOPM
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      221 days ago

      Or could cause illness if you drank too much.

      • @MutilationWave
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        321 days ago

        No doubt but who’s out there chugging apple juice. Some kids maybe but that makes it worse. Good point.

        • @[email protected]
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          321 days ago

          Well, as a parent, I limit the amount of juice anyway (we currently don’t have any at home) because they’re chalk full of sugar. I’m hopeful that other parents do something similar, or at least vary the types of sugary drinks their kids get.

          • @MutilationWave
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            221 days ago

            Reading the ingredients on “juice” is terrifying. Worse than soda. If your kids eat a lot of ketchup there is no sugar added ketchup available now and it’s so much better than regular in both taste and nutrition.

            • @[email protected]
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              221 days ago

              Ingredients for juice is generally just juice. Are you talking about nutrition information instead? If so, yeah, it’s basically 100% sugar, because that’s what fruit is, and it removes the most important part of fruit: the fiber. So we don’t have much juice at our house.

              I’ll have to check out the no sugar added ketchup. We don’t have a ton of ketchup, but have it occasionally when we make burgers or chicken nuggets (maybe 1-2x each per month).