100 Percent Juice Fills the Bill for Healthy School Lunches
Monday, October 6th, 2008
For decades, children of all ages have consumed fruit juice as part of their school foodservice meals or in the lunches they have toted from home. 100 percent fruit juice was then, and is still today, a healthful beverage that can serve as a daily fruit serving.
Recently, however, some parents have become confused about 100 percent juice—how much to drink, how much to serve their children—partly because of the natural sweet taste of fruit juice. The majority of research on juice shows that it definitely contributes important nutrients to the diet and is clearly not the reason for childhood obesity.
The two latest studies published on this topic were published in the American Medical Association’s June issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine and the July/August issue of the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine (AJLM).