Are Calcium Fortified Orange Juices Good For You, Are There Any Cons to Drinking It?

Question

i was wondering if was okay to drink calcium fortified juices particularly (Minute Maid Orange Juices from Concentrate that contain the added vitamins and calcium) i usually drink two cups of the fortified juice a day, and one cup of milk, to meet my daily calcium needs

Are there any cons to drinking Calcium and vitamin fortified juices?
Please help

Answer 1

If you don't like milk or it doesn't agree with you, you can always drink calcium-fortified orange juice. But will the calcium be absorbed as well by your body? A one-week study at Tufts University's Mineral Bioavailability Laboratory in Boston found that calcium was equally well absorbed from skim milk, fortified orange juice and calcium-carbonate tablets. When picking a calcium source, remember that all options involve a trade-off: Unlike orange juice, milk contains vitamin D--another essential nutrient for strong bones. Orange juice, on the other hand, has vitamin C and folate, which is good for your heart and helps prevent serious birth defects. The moral of the story: Getting nutrients from a variety of food sources is best.--S.C.

Answer 2

There is no con that I know of about drinking calcium in juice, except that juice tends to have a lot of calories, especially if it has high fructose corn syrup as a main ingredient. So if you are watching your weight, or aren't very active, you should make sure your juice doesn't have much sugar in it.

Answer 3

you need from 800 milligrams to 1200 milligrams of calcium daily and i believe the studies that support that there is no difference between taking calcium from natural sources or from manufactured ones because calcium is a mineral.
so id say yeah there good for you if you don't take more then 2 grams of calcium into your diet and were an active person so that it would be used by your body to support your bones.

Answer 4

They're supposed to be, but taste terrible. They're safe, though.
But I recommend not drinking the with calcium juices.

Answer 5

if you check the ingretents on the lable you will see that there is a higher percentage of calcium than other juices