Pure Fruit Juice: Healthy, or Not?

Fruit juice has sugar—and vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients

The nutrition of fruit juice is often compared to that of fruit, which isn't so practical a comparison if you consider a thirsty person is looking for a drink, not a snack. compixel2013/Pixabay

Increasingly, fruit juices are seen as junk foods, and consumption is falling.

But fruit juice was once viewed as part of a healthy diet. Now it is often seen as supplying little more than a high dose of sugar.