| Many people know the benefits or drinking fruit | | | | want to spend good money on a sub-standard |
| and vegetables juices, but what's best, bottled | | | | alternative? |
| juice or fresh juice? Personally, I never buy | | | | Sugar |
| bottled juice, as I think they are a complete | | | | Another thing I have against bottled juices is that |
| waste of money. There are more expensive that | | | | they are mostly fruit juices. Fruit juices contain |
| juice you'd make yourself and don't even contain | | | | far too much sugar, and when combined with the |
| as many nutrients as fresh juice. | | | | fact that many if the nutrients have been |
| Pasteurization | | | | destroyed, you just end up with a sugary drink |
| The bottled juices you buy from your local store | | | | with very few nutrients. |
| will have been pasteurized in order to give the | | | | Taste |
| juice a shelf life. This means that the juice has | | | | And how about the taste test? There really is no |
| been boiled, in order to stop bacteria and other | | | | comparison between a freshly squeezed juice and |
| organisms growing. While this sounds like it good | | | | the bottles equivalent. Once you have drunk |
| idea, the pasteurization process also destroys | | | | freshly prepared juice, you won't want to go back |
| many of the vitamins and enzymes that are | | | | to the bottled variety. To me, the taste of a |
| contained in the juice. This defeats the object of | | | | freshly squeezed apple juice, for example, is on |
| drink juice in the first place. A freshly prepared | | | | hundred times better than any bottled apple juice |
| juice is teeming with nutrients, so why would you | | | | I have tasted. And that is no exaggeration. |