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Nutritious And Healthy Uses Of Apple Juice
By Kevin Pederson, Tue Jan 10th
Apple juice is good as a nutritious drink but excellent inovercoming a liverish feeling, in helping sort out digestivedisturbances and for flushing the kidneys. Many of these healthproviding properties are retained in cider vinegar, so if youcannot obtain apples to prepare your juice you can use insteadtwo teaspoonfuls of cider vinegar in a glass of water. Besides being a great cleanser, the apple juice diet purifiesthe blood and is helpful for skin and liver, and as a generaltonic. After juicing, the liquid often oxidizes quickly so it isbest to store for even a short while in the refrigerator. Applescontain some 15 calories per oz (220KJ per 100g).
The vitaminspresent include C, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinic acid,carotene, B6, biotin and folic acid. There is a little sodium and a lot of potassium and phosphorus.Until the 1930s apples were regarded as an important indicatedsource of vitamin C. Then some scientist carried out a fewanalyses which indicated very low amounts of vitamin C. It tookyears for the poor apples to return to favor, for what thechemist found out was partially true. Modem research shows afluctuation between 2.3mg per 100g (4oz), in the worstvarieties, to 31.8mg in the best.
Those high in vitamin C include Ribston Pippin, Golden Noble,Reinette, Ontario, King of the Pippins, Bramleys, Beauty ofBath, Blenheim Orange, Cox's and jonathans. The poor providersinclude Rome Beauty, Laxton's Superb and James Grieve. Aroundthe low middle are such favorites as Golden Delicious andWorcester Pearmain. Oranges and lemons are more important asproviders of vitamin C, but apples, unlike citrus fruits, havevery high mineral contents, and also pectins, malic acid andtannic acid, all of which are of the greatest therapeuticimportance in normalizing the intestines. About the author:Kevin Pederson has been managing a number of natural homeremedies websites which have information on some nutritiousjuices of apple which is good for diet as well asnutrition.
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