Carefully Choosing Fruit

TRIBUNNEWS.COM - We always advisable to eat fruits as much as five servings a day. Limited time to provide these fruits often encourage us to buy fruit in the form of juice or fruit juice packaging. To meet the needs of vitamins, minerals, and fiber that we used to get from the fruit, one should not buy bottled fruit juice.
Although its shape in the form of liquids, juices still have benefits. After all, the human stomach has a limited capacity. When you eat fruit juice, the liquid will be more easily digested, and in a short time anyway. Nutritional substances is more easily absorbed by the body. This is different if you eat solid foods (eg fruits), which takes longer to digest.
"Imagine if we should eat five servings of fruit a day, definitely feel full stomach so bad," said Prof. Dr. Ir Made Astawan, MS, specialist food and fruits, while talk show "Juices Fun Facts" at The Glass House, New Kebayoran , South Jakarta, Monday (10/17/2011) then.
But for that you get the benefits of vitamins, minerals, and fiber than enough juice (especially in the form of bottled ready to drink), you should more carefully select the products sold in the market. There are three kinds of fruit drinks that have been set by the Food and Drug Supervisory Body, which can be distinguished from the content of the fruit:
Fruit juice, which is a liquid obtained from the fruit, either single or mixed fruit from some fruit. The total content of 100 percent fruit juice, obtained from the process of compression, crushing, or grinding the fruit.
Drink fruit juice, is juice that has been diluted with water. Minimum juice content of the total must add up to 35 percent, with or without addition of sugar.
Fruit-flavored drinks, fruit juice which has been diluted with water, but with a total content of at least 10 percent fruit juice. In the drinks are generally added to other ingredients (you can read the packaging label).
In order for drinks with the flavors of fruit, or fruit juice does not provide other effects such as high amounts of calories, choose also the sugar content was too high.
Of the conditions set forth BPOM this, you can assess which type of fruit drink that is best suited for you. If you want a drink with vitamins and minerals that are still intact, of course you can choose fruit juice. But if you want a drink as a form of enjoyment (not preferred for nutrition), or for refreshment, fruit-flavored drinks can be an option.