Benefits of Fruit Juices

350ml BNL Passion Fruit Juice Drink NFC

If you are not a big fan of eating fresh fruit, drinking fruit juice can be a good way for you to get your recommended 1.5 cups of fruit each day. Each 3/4-cup serving of juice counts as 1 cup of fruit and hardly takes any time to drink. Our Passion Fruit Juice Drink NFC made from fresh Passion fruit, not from concentrate.

Nutrition Benefits

Fruit juice has about the same vitamin and mineral content as fresh fruit. It also contains the same beneficial plant chemicals — such as flavonoids — found in fresh fruit. The main difference is that the fruit juice doesn’t have the fiber found in fresh fruit. As long as you get your recommended 25 grams of fiber per day from whole grains, fruits and vegetables, this doesn’t matter. If you’re craving a sweet drink, fruit juice is a much healthier option than soda or energy drinks.

Health Benefits

Getting the recommended number of servings of fruits and vegetables may help lower your risk for health conditions including cancer and heart disease, and drinking fruit juice may make this easier for you. Some types of fruit juice may be particularly beneficial, including grape juice, which contains flavonoids that help decrease your heart disease risk by lowering your cholesterol and your risk for blood clots and by keeping your blood pressure at a healthy level, according to MayoClinic.com. Pomegranate juice is also a good choice, since it contains a type of antioxidant called polyphenols in amounts higher than those found in other fruit juices, and it may help lower your blood pressure and keep your arteries from clogging.

Recommended Intake

While juice can be healthy, you don’t want to go on a juice fast, which involves consuming only fruit or vegetable juice, since this makes it hard for you to get all of the nutrients you need and tends to be too low in calories. Instead, drink juice as part of a healthy diet. Drinking too much fruit juice can also cause you to get too many calories, since even 100-percent fruit juices are high in sugar and calories.

Considerations

Make only as much juice as you can drink in one sitting, as bacteria quickly multiply in fresh juice, making it unsafe to drink. If you buy your juice at the store, stick with 100 percent fruit juice and avoid juice drinks sweetened with added sugars, since these sugars just add calories without any nutritional benefit. Ensure that the juice is pasteurized, or it may cause food poisoning.