Fruit - Makes For A Great Healthy Snack

If you step into the average health food store, you can find literally dozens of different items that promise to make your diet healthier. Granola bars. Natural foods. Protein shakes. All of these will definitely make you healthier, but they can be fairly expensive and unsavory. With all these options, too many people are beginning to overlook the most basic of all healthy foods: the fruit. Fruit is very healthy for you, it tastes good, and if you buy it in the right season it is very cheap. So consider fruit next time you're looking for a healthy snack.

Fruit's main benefit comes from the many vitamins and minerals contained within. Oranges and citrus fruits contain large amounts of vitamins C, A and E. These help to protect your body from illnesses, and build up your immune system. They act as anti-oxidants, which you can always use more of.

Fruit also acts as a natural laxative. So, if you've been having problems with your digestion, then you should consider eating a few fruits and gaining the benefits of their roughage. When your body is getting rid of waste, the fruit material will help keep things going.

Diets high in fruit are linked to reduced risk of many maladies such as stroke, heart disease, cancer, cataracts, Alzheimer's, and other symptoms of old age. Nobody can stay young forever, but a few fruits every day will help you stay young longer.

Fruits are great for losing weight. You get a sweet and filling snack, but it is extremely healthy for you. What more could you ask for? The USDA recommends that you eat 5 servings of fruit per day, and few people reach that benchmark. So next time you are at the grocery store, stop by the produce section and get a nice bag of apples or oranges.

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What Makes a Truly Healthy Natural Fruit Juice

Discover Super Premium Fruit Juice

In recent times Fruit Juice has been given a bad wrap, with many nutritionists stating that it is low in fibre when compared to eating whole pieces of fruit. But now there's a new Juice category - Super Premium Fruit Juice - and it is growing at a very fast pace.

What is 'super premium' fruit juice

Super premium fruit juice aims to get juice in its most healthy, natural form from the grower to to the consumer. Super premium juice is made up of the whole fruit skin and all, and is more like a juice smoothie. Whole fruit means plenty of fibre and far more vitamins and minerals in your diet. Whole fruit such as mangos, plums, peaches and berries are crushed rather than juiced so all of the fleshy goodness goes into the bottle.

Juice that is heat-treated in the same way as Milk

What makes it super premium is that it is pasteurised (heated) in a way that is similar to milk, that is very quickly and at a high temperature. This form of pasteurisation keeps it as close to its natural state as possible and sustains far more of the fruits' goodness for consumption. The proof that it is truly a super premium juice is that it has a shelf life also similar to milk. Immediately after pasteurisation the juice is cold filtered to 4°C and then must be transported and stored at that temperature to give it a shelf life of around 30 days.

The squeeze on normal fruit juice

Most fruit juice contains only the juice from the fruit, not the flesh. The flesh of the fruit is where most of the goodness is. Most juice is also pasteurised (heated) for a long period of time to give it a longer shelf life. This process also diminishes the nutritional value of the juice, as many nutrients are lost in the heating process. A lot of bottled juice is also made from concentrate where most of the nutrition has been boiled out.

Other that being very healthy for you, these premium juices taste amazing! This must be due to the fact that you are tasting the whole fruit with far less damage to it through pasteurisation. I have tried a range of this type of juice and it is markedly noticeable how much more distinct the flavours are, I think it's the best fruit juice I've ever tasted.

This is an exciting growth category, and it will be interesting to see what wonderful flavours enter the market.

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