Technically, any liquid intended for drinking is a beverage so named by a word derived from French and Latin verbs meaning ‘to drink.’ Healthy beverages are beverages with health benefits that attribute by its nutritional value. The use of healthy beverage for promoting health and relieving symptom is as old as the practice of medicine.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Grapefruit juice health benefits

Grapefruit juice is a beverage often consumed at breakfast for its health benefits and to mask the taste of drugs or foods.

Fresh grapefruit juice will produce a light sweat and relieve a sore throat. The pink and red varieties are more sweet and generally less acidic than white grapefruits.

Grapefruit juice is rich in vitamin C, and in the minerals calcium, phosphorus and potassium.

An 8 oz serving of grapefruit juice contains fewer than 100 cal and has the same amount of vitamin C as orange juice. (72 mg).

One serving also provides approx 300 mg of potassium.

Grapefruit juice give the people needed vitamin C the natural way – in combination with other vitamins and minerals, natural fruit sugars, healthy alkalinity and additional health benefits.

According to Agricultural and Food Chemistry, red grapefruit might help lower levels of LDL cholesterol.

For pregnant women, grapefruit juice have the bioflavonoids and vitamin C that give strength to capillary walls that are taxed by fluid retention and swelling which are common during pregnancy.
Grapefruit juice health benefits

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