Your orange juice may soon have a little less sugar, if FDA rule is enacted

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The orange juice at grocery stores could have a little bit less sugar if a proposed regulation goes into effect.

The US Food and Drug Administration proposed a new regulation on Tuesday that would lower the minimum Brix requirement, which measures the sugar and other dissolved solid content of a liquid. The change would drop the amount of sugar in pasteurized orange juice from 10.5 to 10 degrees Brix, according to the FDA.

For example, if a 100-gram sample of a liquid was made up of 50 grams of water and 50 grams of sugars and other dissolved solids –– such as pectin, organic acids and amino acids –– then the liquid would be 50 degrees on the Brix scale, according