The health benefits of pure apple juice aka sweet cider

From ‘Help with Cooking.com‘, some interesting nutritional information about pure apple juice, or sweet cider:

Vitamins: A, B and C

Minerals: Calcium, magnesium, phosphorous and potassium

Therapeutic benefits: Historically, apples were prescribed to remedy virtually every illness going and today we still have the popular saying “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”.

Apples may help with arthritic and rheumatic conditions, as well as calming, soothing and cleansing the digestive system.

Pure apple juice [sweet cider] is particularly effective at treating constipation and diarrhoea and is known to tone up the liver.

Apples contain pectin, a substance that is said to soak up bad cholesterol, thus reducing levels in the blood.