15 Fruit/Vegetable Juices That Are Healthier Than You Thought

Several studies show that adding more produce to your diet can improve your well-being, yet most of us don’t get enough. Our produce-packed fruit juice and vegetable juice recipes are a delicious way to drink about a quarter of your daily recommended produce intake per glass.

Many popular vegetable juices, particularly ones with high tomato content, are high in sodium, and therefore consumption of them for health must be carefully considered. Some vegetables such as beets also contain large amounts of sugar, so care must be taken when adding these to juices.

Although the actual nutritional benefits of vegetable juice are contested, a recent UC Davis study found that drinking vegetable juice daily significantly increased drinkers' chances of meeting the daily recommended number of vegetable servings.^[7] Having an easy source of vegetables encouraged drinkers to incorporate more vegetables into their diets. Children who refuse whole vegetables may find vegetable juice, when blended with fruit juice, a palatable alternative.