How so?

[Zacs-Master]

I bought a bottle of fresh orange juice from M&S today and it proudly proclaimed on said bottle that it had no less than 8 freshly squeezed oranges in it yet, it also stated that it was just one of my five a day. Bizarre ey?

[bednobs]

juice can only be counted as one of your five a day

[funnygirl]

It should have said 'one of your 8 a day'

[jamesnan]

Five different fruit or vegetables is what is usually meant

[sherrardk]

Surely it should have said five of your five today and three of tomorrow's?

[Zacs-Master]

'juice can only be counted as one of your five a day'
Who says? And more to the point, why?

[sherrardk]

I think (though I could be horribly wrong) that it's something to with fibre content. My kids drink litres of fruit juice every week but it only counts as one of the five a day thing.

[annie0000]

smoothie however counts as two ;o)

[ummmm]

It's botox..

It's to encourage people to eat better foods.

We don't need '5 a day'

We need those things on a regular basis. 'Sausage and chips' idiots need it spelling out to them!!

Some people eat 'egg 'n' chips' and think it's good enough.

Eggs are good for you...right?

[Zacs-Master]

Damn, I almost bought a smoothies too!

[ummmm]

Don't drink too much smoothie. You get fruit over load and it makes you feel sick...

(especially if you've just drank 2 cups of coffee)

[Chinajan]

The juice of a fruit is not the same as eating the fruit itself.

If you go by the rule that one of your five as about the size of your fist, then a fist-sized portion of orange juice would need to contain the juice of many oranges.

Oh dear, that sounds rude. :D

[Zacs-Master]

It does rather.

[Chinajan]

And anyhoo, that bloke on the recent Channel4 series The Hotel stated he'd never eaten a vegetable in his life. And he looked healthy enough.

Am I remembering correctly that some years ago there was a boy in all the newspapers who only ever ate beans? Sorry for the tangent OP.

[annie0000]

Yes Ummmm - I remember seeing a programme where someone said they picked 5 a day not based on any scientific basis, purely because they thought that 5 should be achievable by most people and was a decent enough target to set.

[ummmm]

My cousin only eats crisps and mini chedders. Only drinks coke...

He's in his late 40's now.

[ummmm]

Annie...I think it's 9 in America.

Wonder why??!!

[annie0000]

that's cos their stuff is all even more full of chemicals than ours. I bought a non organic bag of apples last week and despite washing them thoroughly they still tasted like plastic!!