Sometimes we drink more juice than water.

Choosing a healthy juice can be very confusing.

Look at these ingredients from nutritional labels. Which one is the best choice?

Choice #1
100% pure orange juice from concentrate. Contains pure filtered water, premium concentrated orange juice.

Choice #2
10% fruit juice, water, high fructose corn syrup, pineapple, water extracted orange, grapefruit, and peach juice concentrates, citric acid, natural flavor.

Choice #3
Water, high fructose corn syrup and 2% or less of each of the following: Concentrated orange juice, concentrated tangerine juice, concentrated lime juice, concentrated grapefruit juice, citric acid ascorbic acid (vitamin C), beta-carotene, thiamin hydrochloride (vitamin B1), natural flavors, food starch-modified sodium citrate, cottonseed oil, propylene glycol alginate, xanthan gum, guar gum, sodium hexametaphosphate, potassium sorbate (to protect flavor), yellow #5, yellow #6.

STOP AND THINK

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