Technically, any liquid intended for drinking is a beverage so named by a word derived from French and Latin verbs meaning ‘to drink.’ Healthy beverages are beverages with health benefits that attribute by its nutritional value. The use of healthy beverage for promoting health and relieving symptom is as old as the practice of medicine.

Thursday, March 02, 2017

Nutritional benefits of watermelon juice

Watermelon juice is a nutritional beverage with reported health benefits such as antioxidants, anti-inflammatory, and vasodilatory properties as a possible preventive beverage for cardiovascular disease.

Watermelon is rich in carotenoids particularly lycopene, β-cryptoxanthin, and β-carotene as well as α- and γ-tocopherols at the lower level. Watermelon juice is also a rich source of L-citrulline improving NO release, which have several positive health effects.

Other nutritional benefits including:
*It is fat free.
*It has very low sodium content.
*It is cholesterol free.
*It is a good source of Vitamins A & C

Watermelon juice has higher ascorbic acid than of numerous fruit juices such as apple, carrot, grape, peach and pear. Nutritional benefits of watermelon juice

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