Description : | Healthy eating is inconceivable without fruits and vegetables. Fruit and vegetable juices are slowly being accepted as their next alternatives and popular for their refreshing taste, ready source of energy with natural vitamins, minerals and trace elements. Tomato, carrot and beetroot juice are the most popular. They also make an excellent base for vegetable cocktails, i.e., mixtures of different vegetable juices. Vegetable juice or pulp can be diluted with drinking water to produce vegetable nectar, which must contain at least 40% vegetables. All vegetable juices contain a concentrated amount of valuable minerals such as calcium, sodium, potassium, magnesium etc. which are preserved as nutrients even after the vegetables are converted into juice. While potassium has a cleansing and diuretic effect on the body calcium and magnesium are important for the nervous system, as well as for the teeth and bones |