Juggling Juice in Children’s Diets

NuVal rates orange juice at 25 but scores an actual orange at 100, at the top of the nutrition rating scale.

Health professionals have long extolled the benefits of 100% fruit juice as a source of phytochemicals that can be used in conjunction with whole fruits to reach one’s daily nutrition goals. But research suggests that children, who comprise the single largest group of juice consumers, are drinking more juice than is recommended. More than one-third (35%) of parents polled by the University of Michigan C.S. Mott’s Children’s Hospital report that their young children have ...

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