Fruit drinks contain little fruit juice

• 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!