| Fruits make up an essential part of our daily diet. One | | | | example in terms of preparing nutrient rich soil, rather |
| of the best ways to get part of your daily intake is | | | | than using chemical fertilisers on low nutrient soil |
| to drink fruit juice. Juice makes it easy to take in all | | | | which makes farming easier but which also results in |
| or part of your daily intake. | | | | a lesser grade product. |
| However fruit juice is only as nutritious as the fresh | | | | Anyone that grows their own vegetables at home |
| produce that go into the juice. These days with mass | | | | without chemicals knows the difference in quality |
| farming and hydroponics it is often hard to know | | | | between supermarket and homegrown fruit. |
| where the produce that goes into your drink comes | | | | Supermarket purchased tomatoes for example, in the |
| from. Manufacturers are not impelled to disclose what | | | | last few years, really only vaguely resemble what a |
| sort of herbicide and pesticides they use on their | | | | true tomato should be. Often they are lacking in |
| crops, so we as the consumers are left to take the | | | | colour, smell and flavour, as if sometimes it seems |
| chance. The effects on herbicides, pesticides and | | | | they have been 'engineered' to maximise size and |
| fertilizers that are ingested through fruits on our | | | | weight at the cost of nutritional content and flavour. |
| bodies are widely unknown as alot of the more | | | | Whereas a good home grown tomato should have a |
| recent chemicals used on crops have only been | | | | very strong delicious tomato smell without even |
| around for several years and their long term health | | | | breaking the skin, they should be positively bursting |
| effects are not well documented. The use of | | | | with flavour and be firm to the touch which makes |
| chemicals on cash crops is basically to control insects | | | | them a lot easier to cut into slabs when cooking. Not |
| pests, fungal diseases and weeds. They are effective | | | | only that but they will have substantially greater |
| in controlling those problems and are used on a large | | | | nutritional value. |
| scale, but at what cost? | | | | In order to get the most out of the fruit juice you |
| Recently there has been a strong movement into | | | | drink it is really worth trying to buy organically |
| organic farming. Organic farming essentially means | | | | certified produce. Organic certification is an industry |
| that no man made chemicals are used on the crops. | | | | standard that guarantees that no chemicals have |
| This often means that more work needs to go into | | | | been used and no compromises have been made on |
| the product to make them economically viable. For | | | | quality or flavour. |