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Nutrition Facts and Benefits of 100% Florida Orange Juice

One of the most popular and naturally healthy beverages around, 100 percent orange juice can enhance a recipe's nutrition and taste.

Pure 100 percent Florida orange juice is a naturally nutrient-rich source of essential vitamins and minerals, as well as beneficial antioxidants. From providing many of the nutrients needed to maintain a healthy immune system to help the body fight disease and inflammation to promoting heart and brain health, adding 100 percent orange juice to a recipe or simply drinking an 8-ounce glass can help fuel the body for a lifetime of health.

• Balanced Eating Regimen: An 8-ounce glass (1 cup) of 100 percent orange juice helps to meet USDA fruit intake recommendations (1 cup of 100 percent fruit juice equals 1 cup of fruit). In fact, 100 percent orange juice is featured more than any other juice on the USDA food pyramid for its valuable nutrients.
• Heart Health: One hundred percent orange juice is a sodium free, nutrient-rich beverage containing potassium and folate, nutrients which may help maintain a healthy cardiovascular system. Diets higher in potassium and lower in sodium have been associated with lower blood pressure and reduced risk of stroke.¹ Folate can help maintain healthy homocysteine levels. When elevated, homocysteine has been identified as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.²
• Immunity Support: A healthy lifestyle, starting with a diet, is the best defense against colds and other illnesses. Simply drinking one 8-ounce glass of 100 percent orange juice each morning provides the body with flavonoids, carotenoids, folate, vitamins C and B6, potassium and magnesium. This packs the nutritional punch needed to help keep the immune system strong.
• Inflammation: Since chronic inflammation may cause serious life-threatening diseases, a wholesome diet is important.³ A glass of 100 percent orange juice contains nutrients that may act as antioxidants, including vitamin C, flavonoids, and carotenoids, which help support the body's ability to fight inflammation.
• Fight Against Cancer: A diet low in fat and high in fruits and vegetables may help lower the risk of certain cancers. One hundred percent orange juice contains vitamin C, which can help neutralize free radicals that can cause cell and tissue damage which may contribute to chronic diseases such as cancer.
• Brain Health: Some studies report that low folate intake or low blood folate levels increased the risk for dementia or Alzheimer's disease.^4,5 To help augment your folate intake levels, be sure to include foods and beverages that are good sources of folate, such as 100 percent orange juice.
• Birth Defects: Including folate-rich foods as part of a healthy diet that includes 400 micrograms of folic acid from synthetic sources of the vitamin (supplements or folic acid fortified foods) may help reduce a woman's risk of having a baby with a neural tube defect.⁶ One hundred percent orange juice is a good source of folate and can help boost daily folate intake.