Fruit juice is packaged in many ways: as a frozen concentrate, refrigerated in cartons or bottles, and unrefrigerated in bottles or cans. Drinking fruit juice can provide you with nutrients such as potassium, vitamin C, and even calcium (when you buy juice with calcium added). It will help meet part of your daily fruit requirement, although juice contains little, if any, of the fiber found in fresh fruit, and fruit juice is usually high in sugar.

Here are some shopping tips:

• Choose products that are made from 100 percent fruit juice.
• Avoid products in which corn syrup appears ahead of fruit juice in the ingredients.
• Be aware of products that list apple juice as the main ingredient while claiming to be juice from another type of fruit. These products are often labeled as fruit cocktails, juice blends, or “flavored” juice.

Charting the Aisles
The following chart displays calories, sugar, sodium, and potassium content for a variety of fruit juice products. Serving sizes vary.

FRUIT JUICE	Cals	Sugar (gm)	Sodium (mg)	Porassium (gm)
FROZEN
Minute Maid Limeade (8 oz.)	90	23	0	0
Hawaii’s Own Guava Strawberry (1/4 c.)	100	24	0	0
Dole Orange Peach Mango (1/4 c.)	120	23	25	190
Minute Maid Original, Calcium + Vitamin D Orange Juice (8 oz.)	120	24	0	450
Dole Pine-Orange Banana (1/4 c.)	120	25	10	310
Tree Top 100% Apple Juice (8 oz.)	120	26	15	280
Welch’s 100% White Grape Raspberry (8 oz.)	140	35	15	0
REFRIGERATED
Eating Right Ruby Red Grapefruit (8 oz.)	90	17	0	300
Tropicana Pure Premium Homestyle Orange Juice, Some Pulp (8 oz.)	110	22	0	450
Newman’s Own Virgin Lemonade (8 oz.)	110	27	40	0
Minute Maid Pomegranate Blueberry (8 oz.)	120	29	20	260
Welch’s Mandarin Mango (8 oz.)	140	34	20	0
NONREFRIGERATED
Ocean Spray Light Cranberry (8 oz.)	40	10	75	65
Welch’s Light Grape (8 oz.)	50	12	80	0
Sunsweet PlumSmart Light (8 oz.)	60	11	20	135
Mott’s Plus Light Apple Juice Beverage (8 oz.)	60	14	35	120
Texsun Ruby Red Grapefruit Juice (8 oz.)	100	23	45	290
Langer’s All Pomegranate (8 oz.)	150	34	15	590

Sources: Product packaging

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