Juice or nectar? (benefits and harms of juice)

We used to take for any juice-based beverage fruits and berries. Even the one in which the natural base is only a few percent. Now, our new consumer-protection GOST. So we drink?

Tasty and healthy!

Surprisingly, we quickly got used to the juices in small convenient packages and started to forget what they have been in the big three-liter jar And they were, generally speaking, are more useful than many of the current innovations juice. But, nonetheless, new items in the packages like. Very often children are buying juice. Many of you probably noticed that they mainly produce solid dairies - Ostankino, Ochakovsky, Ramenskoe, Lianozovo (Wimm-Bill-Dann) Cherkizovsky. Maybe even so the juices in small and large boxes trust. Sometimes people ask: what juice is better - or Moscow "from the province"? "Provincial" sometimes overtake the same product that is produced or imported in Moscow on imports. Regions producers work mostly on local raw materials, which, of course, is not a disadvantage. Conversely, there are more guarantees of "naturalness" of products. Large same enterprise considerable part of it is discharged from imported concentrates, hours for them very comfortable. Conveniently it to us, customers - such juices are stored for a long time. But long-term storage is not the best indicator of quality.

How much juice ... The juice?

Juice consumption in Russia is on average about 4 liters per person per year. But 22.4% of the population do not drink at all. For comparison: in Germany, the average consumption of juice per person is about 42 liters a year, in Austria - 30 in England -19 liters.

If you carefully look at the label on display while at the same volume and the price of packages featuring different fruits and berries, you'll find that they are different products - juices, nectars, drinks, fruit drinks. For the buyer the same goes, all juices. The logic is simple - what fruit is depicted, and a juice. Producer allows illiterate consumers and willingly draws orange where solerzhanie orange juice just something 10%. And the rest - water, sugar and more, for example, citric acid ... Do not be surprised if one hundred percent juice is written, juice concentrate and water. Fresh juices all over the world are the most expensive, we have for sale are very few. They tend to be refrigerated up to 10 days, so most of juices made from concentrate.

Any fruit juice for 80-90% of the water in which the dissolved nutrients and trace elements. The water was removed and the concentrated juice is obtained. At any time, it can be restored by adding the initial amount of water. Usually, experts say that in quality is not inferior to the juice freshly prepared, but it is certainly not the case.

In addition, as you know, is clarified juice (no pulp) and pulp. Vitamins and minerals in them is the same, but in the juices with pulp more so-called "roughage" for example fiber, which normalizes the gastrointestinal tract and improves bile secretion.

With new guests!

Prior to 2000, natural juices determined old-fashioned, the taste, color and smell. As for the ratio of the components, before it came just now. New Standard is developed, it is called the "juices, nectars and drinks sokosoderzhagtsie. Definitions and terms." Since January 1, 2001 on the shelves should not be a single package of these products without explicitly specifying their composition. We are for your ten rubles or more, of course, want to get not only tasty but healthy juice.

On a visit there is a very important point, which states that the juices do not contain preservatives, colorings, artificial flavorings. Added only natural flavors derived from fruits. Very important is the percentage of juice in the package purchased, to know you're drinking healthy juice in all respects, or just to quench their thirst. But in nectars and drinks add dyes, chemical preservatives can.

In Europe, a similar standard developed in 1993, and a number of our law-abiding manufacturers consider it appropriate labeling their products. Only look at both. So, take a look at where the juice is and what is not.

JUICE

Old Standard was not perfect, but he was one hundred percent focused on the so-called juices direct expression, which they were. Now direct extraction of juice is not enough, they are too short-lived. Constitute the bulk of the juice reconstituted from concentrate. Hence, the package one hundred percent juice should seek appropriate inscriptions such as "direct extraction" or "restored becoming." In addition, this juice can be light or unclarified, as also should be marked. In addition allowed juice ascorbic acid - is a good antioxidant sugar and natural flavoring. If there is no mark of flavors, it is quite acceptable.

NECTARS

Nectars are marked differently. Of course, the word "nectar" has its own magic, so many people think that it is "richer" juice. It is not as though the flesh of fruits and berries contain many nutrients. It consists of 25-30% of juice, water, sugar, citric or ascorbic acid, fruit or berry puree. Nectar juices can be mixed and mostly recovered from the concentrate. Minimum their share depend on the type of fruit and vegetables, which is strictly regulated by GOST.

Not less than 25% juice passion fruit nectar, black, white and red currant, banana, guava, papaya, lemons and limes, sweet apples.

At least 30% juice - nectar of thorns, plums, rowan, cranberry. At least 35% juice - nectar of cherry and mango. At least 40% juice - nectar of wild rose, cherry, blueberry, raspberry, apricot, strawberry, mulberry. At least 45% juice - peach nectar. At least 50% juice - nectar of quince, apples, except sweet, pears, citrus fruits, except lemons, limes and pineapples.

DRINKS

Fruit drinks - a poor product, the percentage of juice is there for at least 10%, which is why the label should be so written, "fruit juice drink." Moreover, permitted their conservation by chemical means, so make a choice.

NO COUNTERFEIT not bypass

The most popular juices in Russia and around the world - orange. Sometimes they are somehow too gorchat. There are two possibilities: first, the juice can add rinse extract - product recycling orange raw materials, secondly, could be used substandard, unripe fruit. If the juice is too sweet and sticky - the manufacturer seems to have tried to disguise their tricks excess sugar.

Generally speaking, the fraud can be very unpretentious. For example, use the cheapest raw materials. Or natural juice concentrate is diluted with water to ... how conscience will allow. Or, even worse, no juice in the package at all, and there is only water, sugar and organic acids - citric, malic, why drink a little like something fruity. To determine the authenticity of juices and juice drinks in our country developed seven standards, including the one mentioned in this article. In the near future it will be introduced another 14 standards, without which the track is difficult to counterfeit products.

DIY, will not go wrong

Fruit juices are good as a source of glucose and fructose and minerals. In unclarified juice is also a natural polysaccharide pectin. He is able to bind heavy metals, radionuclides, and to remove them from the body. May also reduce the level of cholesterol in the blood, but this juice should be drunk a lot. Ideally, of course, to drink fresh juices and not a six-month shelf life and more. Doctors, nutritionists divide cleansing juices, nutritional and antioxidant (antioxidant).

Cleaning: apple, cabbage, celery, morovno-apple-beet, juice of germinating wheat and other cereals. Recommend to add the sweet lemon juice.

Nutrients: dynno-banana, banana-mango, dynno-strawberry, mango-pineapple. These sweet exotic fruits give a little juice, so you can add a juicy strawberries, kiwi, raspberries, and other sweet berries.

Antioxidant: apricot-strawberry, tomato, orange, grapefruit, orange and carrot, apple with red currants. In short, you can use all the fruits and berries are high in vitamin C. It is useful to recall some of the rules for the use of natural freshly prepared juices. They have to drink on an empty stomach or between meals - a half hour before or after meals. Acidic citrus juices alternate with alkaline - carrot or, for example, cabbage. In the carrot and tomato juice, add 1-2 teaspoons of vegetable oil. As you know, they contain carotene well absorbed only in conjunction with fats.