Is The Sugar In Organic And Natural Home Made Juice Just As Bad As The Sugar In Normal Commercial Juice?

During the summer my mom goes to friends houses and large fields to pick organic and natural apples, rasberries, blueberries and pears.
She always brings home at least 2 or 3 huge garbage bag full of those fruits and berries home. She uses them to make juice for us and puts it in bottles.
And the juice is just as if not more sweet than the juice you buy at stores.
So I want to know if it’s actually healthier than the store juices. My mom says it should be a lot healthier.
I drink 1 or 2 cups a day. If the sugar in these juice are just as bad then I’ll drink less. Plus they are so much fibres and seeds in the rasberry mixes of juices. But i like them all.
Since my mom picks so much, she puts them in ziplock bags and puts them in the freezer. So throughout the whole year we get these natural juices. Then next summer my mom goes to pick more . I actually like it.
Thank you.

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