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Vegetable Juice: Here's What You Need To Know When Buying Your Veggies In A Bottle

Trying to get your daily five servings of vegetables but not always succeeding?

Then consider turning the cap on a bottle of vegetable juice. If leafy greens or cruciferous munchies are eluding you, vegetable juice can be a quick, easy way to get anti-disease antioxidants such as lycopene and lutein into your body. The more lycopene you consume (it's the stuff that gives tomatoes and other fruits the red color), the greater your chances of reducing the likelihood of heart disease and cancer.

How do you pick the healthiest juices on the shelf?

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posted by Mike @ 11:55 AM