I drink the juice of carrots and apples daily. I drink barley green, and I take well-rounded vitamin and mineral supplements. According to the American Holistic Medical Association, even if you eat a balanced diet with generous selections of fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins, you could still benefit from vitamin and mineral supplementation because North American farmlands rarely contain optimum nutrients, especially trace minerals due to the loss of topsoil. That means it would take a large quantity of vegetables, for example, to get the optimum dosages of trace minerals, more than most people could chew in a day. Barleygreen is rapidly becoming North America's leading health drink.
Juices contain all of the goodness of the whole product in a condensed form.
By Juicing fruits and vegetables, nutrients are quickly assimilated since the body does not have to separate out the fiber. Juices should be used as replacements for non-nutritious beverages such as soda, coffee, or alcohol. In preparation for bottling, fruits and vegetables are usually heated and otherwise processed. These processes cause the loss of vitamins, minerals, trace elements, and enzymes. Fresh fruit and vegetable juices that are extracted and consumed shortly thereafter, experience a minimum amount of nutrient loss.