The juicy route to a good health

果汁：喝出健康

From pomegranate to blueberry, fruit-based drinks have become the latest must-haves in the burgeoning market for healthy foods.

从石榴到蓝莓，果汁饮料已成为蓬勃发展的健康食品市场必备的新宠。

With sales worth 3 billion a year, the increasingly exotic drinks have become a firm favourite in the nation’s shopping baskets, claiming to be packed with health-giving antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. Britons now consume 2.2 billion litres of juice drinks each year – equivelant to about 36 litres per person.

果汁饮品年销售额达30亿英镑，这种舶来品已成为全英国家家户户餐桌上的最爱。据称果汁饮品含有有利健康的抗氧化剂，维他命和矿物质。现在英国人每年消费22亿公升果汁，相当于每人消费约36公升。

Now an analysis of the health properties of different juices found on supermarket shelves reveals that many of them really do contain what they claim to, and some may even help to combat chronic disease.

一项对超市各种果汁健康物质的分析报告显示，大多数果汁的确含有宣称的营养成分，其中一些还有助于治疗慢性疾病。

Drinking purple grape, cranberry, apple and grapefruit juices regularly will provide more potential health benefits than the traditional glass of orange juice with breakfast, the study found. Such varieties contain particularly high levels of compounds that can protect against chronic diseases, researchers from the University of Glasgow say

研究还发现，如果早餐经常饮用紫葡萄、蔓越橘、苹果和葡萄柚混合汁会比传统的橙汁获取更多的益健康物质。格拉斯哥大学的研究人员认为“这种混合果汁含有多种丰富营养成分可以预防慢性疾病。

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