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

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The U.S. 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 to the Ohio State University College of Fo

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