Blueberry Juice and Pomegranate Juice are a tricky realm when talking about diet drinks. There is a wave of antioxidant promotion going on in the market place right now, which is generally a good thing. However, there a certain pitfalls.
The first thing to note whenever buying a juice is whether you're getting pure blueberry/pomegranate juice or whether your just getting apple juice with food coloring and high fructose corn syrup loaded in. A good percentage of juices (even Snapple) out there are simply apple sugar water.
POM is a good example of an actual pure juice. POM has a whole line of sugary loaded pomegranate juices, but they also sell the pure thing, and it is clearly marked on the front of the label. Unfortunately, they are also expensive as hell, costing up to $5 a single serving bottle!
So, once you've found pure blueberry, now the real debate comes in. You know it is loaded with antioxidants, but unfortunately, blueberries (and berries in general) contain a high amount of sugar. Even though it is the natural fructose--which is the good kind of sugar--Sugar is sugar, and that means calories, which means this isn't really a diet drink, it's just a fun way to get some antioxidant. But really, you could be getting ten times the amount of antioxidant just by taking a bilberry extract supplement, which is much cheaper than a glass of pure blueberry juice every day. You can find these
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