juice
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Juice is a liquid extracted from fruits or vegetables that contains their natural sugars, vitamins, and flavors. It's consumed as a beverage and valued as a source of nutrition, though the amount of beneficial nutrients varies depending on whether it's freshly made or commercially processed.
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- 100% fruit juice
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Juice is a drink made from the extraction or pressing of the natural liquid contained in fruit and vegetables. It can also refer to liquids that are flavored with concentrate or other biological food sources like meat or seafood, such as clam juice. Juice is commonly consumed as a beverage or used as an ingredient or flavoring in foods or other beverages, such as smoothies. Juice emerged as a popular beverage choice after the development of pasteurization methods enabled its preservation without using fermentation (which is used in wine production). The largest fruit juice consumers are New Zealand (nearly a cup, or 8 ounces, each day) and Colombia (more than three quarters of a cup each day). Fruit juice consumption on average increases with a country's income level.