Healthy Food Choices: Juices

Depending on the type of fruit, juices can have a lot of nutrients and vitamins in them. Learn how to make healthy fruit juice food choices from a licensed dietician and nutritionist in this health and nutrition video.

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Pasteurize if necessary
Use 100% juice
No added sugars

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Christine E. Marquette is a registered and licensed dietician with the Austin Regional Clinic in Austin, TX. She conducts nutrition therapy for ages 2 and up for all dietary needs.

Fruit juices have a lot of different nutrients to them, a lot of different vitamins, depending on the type of fruit. Something, for example, like orange juice is going to be very high in vitamin C, very healthy especially during the winter time. Some of the other juices that might include things like beets, pomegranate, or other types of red fruits, those in particular have a lot of antioxidants. One thing to keep in mind when you are selecting a juice, you want to be sure that depending on who's going to be drinking that juice, you may need to have that juice pasteurized. For example, if you have small children or elderly people whose immune systems may be somewhat compromised, they need to avoid drinking juice that has not been pasteurized. Another thing to keep in mind when selecting juice is when you're looking at labels, make sure that your juice is a hundred percent juice. Some of the juice drinks out there are actually what is referred to as cocktails, meaning that they have a small percentage of juice, maybe 10% or 20% juice and the rest is basically added sugar and flavoring.

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