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Article: Not all juices are alike: the fruity facts and fiction.
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- Environmental Nutrition
- Article date:
- March 1, 1997
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 1997 Environmental Nutrition, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Don't overlook juice in your quest for "5 A Day" of fruits and vegetables. The next best thing to whole fruit is its juice. Though juice loses most of fruit's fiber, it retains most of its nutrients. Yet today's store shelves hold so many fruit-flavored wanna-be's that it's easy to be confused.
Don't be. All juices must now declare on the label the percent of actual fruit juice they contain. That helps, because a 10% juice drink is obviously not a paragon of nutrition. Unfortunately, a 100% juice might not be either. That's because some blends, drinks and cocktails use inexpensive pear juice or white grape juice as fillers, so they can be legally labeled as ...
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