Drink your vegetables

MANILA, Philippines - Did you know that drinking at least eight ounces of 100-percent vegetable juice daily supplies the body with powerful doses of disease-fighting anti-oxidants and nutrients, which help one live longer and happier?

Vegetables like broccoli, carrot, tomato, beetroot, and spinach do not only detoxify and “healthify” the body, but they can also ward off depression and obesity. What’s the most convenient but delicious way to eat your greens and be healthy? Buy 100-percent pure vegetable juice.

Green leafy mixes have high chlorophyll content and phyto-nutrients which reduce the risks of cancer, heart disease and other age-related diseases. Aside from being rich in vitamins C and E, these vegetables also promote healthy inflammation response for better joint and organ function.

Colorful vegetables such as beetroot and tomato are rich in folate, iron, potassium, and vitamin C, which can help prevent anemia or low count of red blood cells. Purple carrots are high in vitamin A, a known and good prevention for poor eyesight.

Aloe vera and wheatgrass offer remedies for skin allergies and injuries. Wheatgrass, according to Dr. Yoshihide Hagiwara, president of the Hagiwara Institute of Health in Japan, can be considered a complete food. 

Tipco Food Group, a veggie and fruit juice manufacturer in Thailand, has mastered the process of making veggie juices interestingly delicious without short-changing the drinkers of its healthy benefits.

The best-selling flavors of beetroot, purple carrot, carrot, aloe vera, broccoli, and spinach, are brilliantly blended with mixed fruit juices and plant extracts such as pineapple, white grape, and wheatgrass to make them tasty and more nutritious. Aside from their best-selling veggie juice mixes, they also offer 100-percent fruit juices such as orange medley, tangerine, blood orange, red grape, Apple, pineapple, guava, Kiwi and grape, prune and grape, pomegranate and cranberry.