Research Suggests People Who Make Vegetable Juice Part of A
Daily Diet May Be More Likely To Get Recommended Daily Servings
CHICAGO, October 24, 2008 - Making vegetable juice a daily habit
could be a small step that can lead to big changes in meeting
daily vegetable recommendations, according to a new study being
presented by researchers from the University of California-Davis
this week at the American Dietetic Association annual
conference1. With seven out of 10 adults falling short of the
daily recommended vegetable intake as put forth by the U.S.
Dietary Guidelines, researchers studied whether drinking
vegetable juice could be a simple behavior change to help boost
the intake of this critical food group2. And it was. The study
looked at three groups of healthy men and women. All three
groups received dietary counseling on ways to get more
vegetables, but only two of the groups were instructed to
consume at least one serving of vegetable juice, in the form of
V8® 100% vegetable juice each day. Of those two