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Fruit drinks are not the same as fruit juices, and many beverages labeled as fruit drinks contain mostly water and sugar and only 10 percent actual fruit juice.
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These are some of the misleading names you'll find on juice cartons at the supermarket.
These labels give the impression that their contents are extracted from real fruit.
Many assume fruit drinks are the same as fruit juices.
Most people would be astonished to know how little fruit juice these beverages actually contain.
The majority of "fruit" beverages, in fact, contain 10 percent or less real fruit juice.
What does the other 90 percent consist of?
These "fruit" beverages offer little or no nutritional value and are essentially flavored sugar water.
Fruit drinks are stripped of vitamins that pure fruit juices naturally provide (just because a fruit drink is fortified with added vitamins doesn't make it nutritionally equivalent to fruit).
Real fruit contains fiber---which slows absorption of the juice's natural sugar into the bloodstream.
And fruit juice has naturally occurring, disease-fighting phytochemicals often absent in sugared beverages.
Juice manufacturers are required to indicate on the label the percentage of actual fruit juice contained within the beverage.
Look for the label that says "100% pure," and "no sugar or preservatives added."
Fruit juice can play an important part in your vitality--- just make sure it's real!
About the author: Mike Adams is an award-winning journalist and holistic nutritionist with a passion for teaching people how to improve their health He is a prolific writer and has published thousands of articles, interviews, reports and consumer guides, and he is well known as the creator of popular downloadable preparedness programs on financial collapse, emergency food storage, wilderness survival and home defense skills. Adams is an honest, independent journalist and accepts no money or commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he promotes. In 2010, Adams co-founded NaturalNews.com, a natural health video sharing site that has now grown in popularity. He also launched an online retailer of environmentally-friendly products (BetterLifeGoods.com) and uses a portion of its profits to help fund non-profit endeavors. He's also a veteran of the software technology industry, having founded a personalized mass email software product used to deliver email newsletters to subscribers. Adams is currently the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit, and regularly pursues cycling, nature photography, Capoeira and Pilates. Known by his callsign, the 'Health Ranger,' Adams posts his missions statements, health statistics and health photos at www.HealthRanger.org
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