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 These are fillers juices that have very little nutritional value compared to pomegranate, blueberry, acai and others.
#5: Are juices made from concentrate as good as juices made fresh?
No! Juices from concentrate are usually imported from growers around the world (including China), then reconstituted with water. The process of removing the water in the first place causes a loss of some nutrients. Reconstituted fruit juice is never as nutritionally potent as fresh fruit juice.
There is also no requirement that juice companies list the country of origin for their juice concentrates. |
| REPPED: This Q&A report is a follow up from our hugely popular Pomegranate and blueberry Juice Consumer Shopping Guide, which exposes dishonest juice products sold in grocery stores. Many readers are asking great questions about these products: Is raw better than pasteurized? Is reconstituted juice as good as freshly squeezed? Is the plastic bottle a threat to health? Must the juices be organic to be healthful?
This follow-up report attempts to answer these questions. Some of the information here is borrowed from the consumer shopping guide mentioned above. |
| Tips: Eat a salad or other high-fiber foods before consuming juices made from concentrate (including pom juice, grape juice, orange juice, blueberry juice or even apple juice). These might include a bowl of oatmeal with extra oat bran, a fresh apple (which contains plenty of fiber), whole grains that are well-chewed, or fiber supplements such as glucomannan. You might also add cinnamon to your oatmeal or breakfast cereal, since cinnamon helps regulate blood sugar and effectively lowers the glycemic index of anything you eat during the same meal. |
| Most of these pomegranate / blueberry juice products come in plastic containers. Plastics, you may know, often contain the bisphenol-A chemical which is thought to contribute to various cancers. The best products come in glass containers, not plastic. (I recommend buying fruit juices in glass wherever possible.)
3. There are likely pesticide residues in the non-organic juice products. Pesticides aren't listed on the ingredients label, but they're nonetheless present. |
| The same is true with pomegranate juice, or blueberry juice, or even cherry juice. Nothing is quite as good as the fresh juices, which is why I strongly recommend the daily consumption of blended smoothies using a Vita-Mix and some raw, fresh ingredients. When you can get pomegranate seeds in season, it's always better to eat them fresh. They're crunchy and sweet, so buy 'em when you can.
When you can't get them in season, juice is the next best thing, and virtually all the juices on the market are made from concentrate. |
| Additional information from the report
Here's a reprint of some summary information from our Pomegranate and blueberry Juice Consumer Guide:
1. All the products reviewed here are dead! In other words, even the "honest" products are still made of dead, pasteurized fruits. None of these juices are raw, freshly-squeezed juices, which means they don't even come close to the nutritional value of raw, fresh juices.
The POM Wonderful company disagrees with that statement. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Anti-Escherichia coli adhesion activity of cranberry and blueberry juices. Adv Exp Med Biol 1996;408:179-183.
Ofek I, Goldhar J, Zafriri D, et al. Anti-Escherichia coli adhesin activity of cranberry and blueberry juices. N Engl J Med 1991;324(22):1599.
Papas PN, Brusch CA, Ceresia GC. Cranberry juice in the treatment of urinary tract infections. Southwest Med 1966:47(1): 17-20.
Pedersen CB, Kyle J, Jenkinson AM, et al. Effects of blueberry and cranberry juice consumption on the plasma antioxidant capacity of healthy female volunteers. Eur J Clin Nutr 2000;54(5):405-408.
Reed J. |
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 Also of commercial value is the rabbiteye blueberry (V. ashei). Origin & history V. corymbosum and V. ashei are indigenous to the eastern parts of the USA (V. angustifolium in the northeast). Local people have used these berries as a food source for centuries. Highbush blueberry was domesticated only towards the end of the nineteenth century and has become the most important blueberry crop in North America, Canada, parts of Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The annual production exceeds 40 000 tons. |
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| Aloe Vera and blueberry Drink Mix
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 Quaker Instant Oatmeal offers Apples & Cinnamon or Maple & Brown Sugar with less sugar, plus my personal favorite-Take Heart blueberry. A packet (34 grams) of Quaker's Lower Sugar Maple & Brown Sugar contains 4 grams of sugar (13 percent calories from sugar), along with 3 grams of fiber (1 gram of which is soluble). Take Heart blueberry (a larger 45-gram packet), with added oat bran and flaxseed, contains 6 grams of fiber (4 grams soluble), 9 grams of sugar (22.5 percent calories from sugar), and 130 milligrams of plant omega-3 fatty acids.
Make muffins. |
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| Also of commercial value is the rabbiteye blueberry (V. ashei). Origin & history V. corymbosum and V. ashei are indigenous to the eastern parts of the USA (V. angustifolium in the northeast). Local people have used these berries as a food source for centuries. Highbush blueberry was domesticated only towards the end of the nineteenth century and has become the most important blueberry crop in North America, Canada, parts of Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The annual production exceeds 40 000 tons. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Toss some in a salad or on cereal, eat as a snack, or make a blueberry pie!
Bursting blueberry Bread Pudding by Chef Cheryl Bell
Servings: 12 • Prep and cooking time: 90 minutes
This recipe contains six powerhouse foods. |
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| Anti-Escherichia coli adhesin activity of cranberry and blueberry juices. N Engl J Med 1991;324(22):1599.
Papas PN, Brusch CA, Ceresia GC. Cranberry juice in the treatment of urinary tract infections. Southwest Med 1966:47(1): 17-20.
Pedersen CB, Kyle J, Jenkinson AM, et al. Effects of blueberry and cranberry juice consumption on the plasma antioxidant capacity of healthy female volunteers. Eur J Clin Nutr 2000;54(5):405-408.
Reed J. Cranberry flavonoids, atherosclerosis and cardiovascular health. Crit Rev Food Sci Nutr 2002;42(3 Suppl):301-316.
Saltzman JR, Kemp JA, Golner BB, et al. |
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| The related lowbush blueberry (V. angustifolium) is about 30 cm high and has greenish white flowers and berries very similar to those of highbush blueberry. Also of commercial value is the rabbiteye blueberry (V. ashei). Origin & history V. corymbosum and V. ashei are indigenous to the eastern parts of the USA (V. angustifolium in the northeast). Local people have used these berries as a food source for centuries. |
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| Aloe Vera blueberry Drink Mix, 13 servings
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 The guide not only reveals the tricks some companies use to deceive consumers, it also names the top recommended pomegranate and blueberry juice products that are made with honest ingredients.
Author Mike Adams is a consumer health advocate and author of hundreds of books, guides and special reports on nutrition and disease prevention. Additional information about Adams is available at www.HealthRanger. |
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 It says:
Blask raspberry gel (again) halts oral tumors
Australian-made "Blueberry Punch" drink halts prostate cancer tumors
Green tea prevents colorectal tumors
Every open-minded doctor who has seen this new research is just astonished at the findings. Even the best pharmaceuticals in the world don't come close to the disease prevention and reversing capabilities of the natural medicines found in vegetables, berries, fruits and herbs. You're witnessing a whole new movement in complementary medicine. Even conventional doctors are starting to take notice. |
| Australia, I recommend blueberry Punch from www.DrRed.com.au
Blend all this up in a Vita-Mix. There's too much here to blend all at once, so you'll need to divide it into five groups and blend each of the five groups separately. You'll have to add water to each batch to make it a liquid. Pour each finished blend into a nut milk bag and squeeze it to strain it into a large bowl (a REALLY large bowl). Discard the pulp to use as compost.
After that's all done, blend 200 grams of blueberries with water. Add some spirulina powder. |
Paula Begoun
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 Kids Smoothie 2-in-l Shampoo, blueberry for All Hair Types above, and the same review applies.
© Kids Smoothie 2-in-l Shampoo, Strawberry ($3.49 for 9 ounces) is, save for a change in fruity fragrance, identical to the Kids Smoothie 2-in-l Shampoo, blueberry for All Hair Types above, and the same review applies.
© Kids Conditioner, Burst of Juicy Grape for Normal to Fine Hair ($3.49 for 9 ounces) is a standard, but very good, smoothing conditioner that can work very well for normal to dry hair that is normal to fine or thin, and it does make hair easy to detangle. |
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| The consumer shopping guide covers both pomegranate and blueberry juices, and it reviews nearly a dozen top brands to show which ones are telling the truth about their products vs. which ones are deceiving consumers with dishonest labeling. "The POM Wonderful brand is among the very best," explained Adams, "And the Tropicana Pure brand is among the worst. Some companies are selling products primarily made with apple juice and grape juice as pomegranate juice. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 As mentioned above, arbutin contains a form of hydroquinone derived from the leaves of bearberry, cranberry, mulberry, or blueberry shrubs, and also is present in most types of pears. Because of arbutin's hydroquinone content it can have melanin-inhibiting properties (Source: The Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, February 1996, pages 765-769). Although the research describing arbutin's effectiveness is persuasive (even if most of the research was done in vitro), concentration protocols have not been established. |
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 They think it's normal to have blueberry bagels made with antifreeze. That's one of the ingredients in blueberry bagels, and you can find it right there listed on the package. Look for polypropylene glycol. That's antifreeze. You can find other foods made with car wax. There's actually carnauba wax in foods, and people think that's completely normal. There are petroleum chemicals in foods in the form of artificial colors, and people think that's normal too. |
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| Vaccinium myrtillus bilberry • common blueberry
Bilberry fruits Bilberry leaves and fruits
Description Bilberry (sometimes called blueberry or wortleberry) is a low shrub of about 0.2 to 0.6 m in height that occurs in dense stands. The simple, toothed leaves are borne on angular stems. Small, greenish pink, waxy flowers occur alone or in pairs and are followed by small, pale red berries of about 6 mm in diameter that turn bluish-black when they ripen. Several other closely related species (see V. corymbosum) have similar (but slightly larger) fruits and larger, differently shaped flowers. |
| Rabbiteye blueberry is grown in southeastern USA, while lowbush blueberry is wildharvested from wild stands in Canada that are specially managed for this purpose. Parts used Ripe fruits.
Cultivation & harvesting Modern highbush blueberries share some genes with other species and are propagated only from cuttings or by tissue culture. They are planted on acid soils, require temperate conditions and are mechanically harvested to some extent. |
Textbook of Natural Medicine 2nd Edition Volume 2Michael T. Murray, ND
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| In one study of seven juices (cranberry, blueberry, grapefruit, guava, mango, orange, and pineapple), only cranberry and blueberry contained this inhibitor.16 blueberry juice is a suitable alternative to cranberry juice in bladder infections.
It must be pointed out that most cranberry juices on the market contain one-third cranberry juice mixed with water and sugar. Since sugar has such a detrimental effect on the immune system,17"19 use of sweetened cranberry juice cannot be recommended. Fresh cranberry (sweetened with apple or grape juice) or blueberry juice is preferred. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Drink approximately 64 ounces (two liters) per day, including 16 ounces (500 ml) of unsweetened cranberry juice (see section on cranberry) and 8 ounces of blueberry juice (250 ml) daily.
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Cranberry. No natural approach to cystitis would be complete without mention of cranberry. Women have used cranberry juice as a home remedy for decades. Several studies have shown that cranberries and cranberry juice are effective in women with active urinary tract infections. |
| Drink fresh juices, especially berry juices including cranberry and blueberry.
• Eat fermented milk products containing probi-otic bacteria.
• Reduce dietary bladder irritants such as alcohol, chocolate, citrus fruits, coffee, black tea, tomatoes, vinegar, and sugar. quantity of liquids. Water and herbal teas related to the treatment goals are the most logical choices. Sixty-four ounces of liquids per day is the common recommendation. Urinating after intercourse is also an important bladder hygiene practice that can prevent recurring UTIs. |
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