Food Nutrition Facts

Fruits and Fruit Juices

According to botany, a fruit is a ripened ovary along with seeds. It comes from a plant that has flower. Generally, when we mention the term -fruit, it usually refers to those items having flesh, like oranges, mango, apples, guava, avocado etc. Nevertheless, almost all the vegetables are also fruits as well as nuts.
There are three major classes in fruits- Simple fruit, Aggregate fruit and Multiple fruit.
Simple fruit are those, which comes from ripening of a simple ovary of a flower. They may be dry of fleshy. Examples include mango, banana, apple, avocado etc.
Aggregate fruits develop from a flower having numerous simple pistils. Examples include raspberry, blackberry.
Multiple fruit develop from a cluster of flowers. Each of the flowers produces a fruit, but in the end, they fuse to form a single mass. Examples include- pineapple, mulberry, and breadfruit. Juice is the liquid product obtained from fleshy fruits and vegetables by squeezing it with hand or a machine.
Natural juice does not contain any other ingredient.

Benefits of taking fruits and fruit juice

Healthy, gives us plenty of vitamins and minerals.
Easy to prepare.
Some manufacturers of commercially available fruit juices fortify their products with added minerals and vitamins that lack particularly in that type of juice.

Risk

Too much drinking of fruit juice can lead to obesity.

Suggestions

One should be careful about the shelf like of the canned juice while buying.

Recommended daily dose

Our diet must contain at least a single fruit daily.
Children aged between 1 to 6 years can take 4 to 6 ounces of juice a day.
Children between 6-12 years can take to 8 to 12 ounces of juice a day. Adults are recommended to take up to 20 ounces daily.

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