Health Benefits of Apples

"An apple a day ~ Keeps the Doctor away"

Apples naturally contain antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and fiber. These nutrients help prevent disease.

Note: Buy organic whenever possible because apples are known to be highly contaminated with pesticides. When tested there were 42 pesticide residues found by the USDA Pesticide Data Program. If you cannot buy organic apples, then just be sure to thoroughly wash, and then peel your apples before eating.

Apple Juice - Healthy or Not?

I prefer to make my own apple juice in a power juicer. It's easy to do, it tastes great, and there are no added preservatives.  I actually add apples to a number of vegetable juice recipes which I also make in my power juicer.

Dr. Oz certainly stirred things up recently when he aired this show announcing that several popular brands of apple juice contained unsafe levels of arsenic. This is highly controversial since the FDA standards allow for up to 23 parts per billion in apple juice, and only about 10 ppb in drinking water.

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