Apricot juice and nutrition

Apricot juice is very nutritious. Apricot has about as much vitamin C in its fruit if it is gathered ripe or quite hard. On the other hand the carotene builds up to a high level during the final ripening period so that the fully tree ripened apricot has more than 200% extra. Select well coloured, tender fruits that are neither greenish nor tending to shrivel. The perfect fruit will keep for only a day or so before becoming unfit to eat. It is therefore best to freeze the juice, if you can. In therapy the main use of apricot juice is as an extra provider of vitamin A and in giving a variation to the flavour when incorporated as an addition to other fruit and vegetable juices.