The 20176 American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines for Juice Consumption by Children states that juice can do more harm than good to young children under the age of one and advises parents not to give them juice. At the same time, the American Academy of Pediatrics also recommends that children under the age of 18 should also limit the amount of juice they consume and are advised to eat fresh fruit directly. Juice is absolutely unnecessary for children under 1 year old Previously, the American Academy of Pediatrics had been recommending against giving juice to infants under 6 months of age. But they said they decided to raise the age recommendation for not drinking juice, from 6 months to 1 year, in light of growing evidence that juice consumption may trigger childhood obesity and tooth decay. This guideline recommends a limit on juice consumption for children under 18. For children under 1-3 years of age, the maximum daily intake of juice should not exceed ½ cup (about 120 mL); for children 4-6 years of age, the maximum daily intake of juice should not exceed 3/4 cup (about 120-180 mL); and for adolescents 7-18 years of age, the maximum daily intake of juice should not exceed 1 cup (about 240 mL). This guideline also suggests the following: 1. Don’t give your children juice to drink from bottles or portable straw cups, as this will keep them drinking juice all day. 2. Don’t drink juice before bedtime either. 3, Parents should get their children into the habit of eating fresh fruit. 4.No matter what age group of children, it is strongly recommended not to drink fruit juice products that have not been sterilized at high temperatures. 5, the body dehydration or diarrhea, also not suitable for drinking fruit juice. 6, children taking some specific drugs can not drink grapefruit juice, may affect the medicinal properties of the drug. 7, do not make the mistake of not drinking fruit juice will be detrimental to the child’s dietary nutrition. Liquid intake, for infants and young children, breast milk or formula is sufficient. For older children, low-fat/skimmed milk and water are also sufficient. Why is it not beneficial to drink more fruit juice? If you think that fruit juice is the same as fruit, you are completely wrong. Fresh fruit has more dietary fiber, fewer calories and less sugar than juice, and a glass of juice is a combination of multiple servings of fruit sugar. Take apples for example: half a cup (120 ml) of apple slices contains 1.5 grams of fiber, 30 calories and 5.5 grams of sugar, while half a cup (120 ml) of apple juice contains 0 grams of fiber, 30 calories and 13 grams of sugar. Freshly squeezed juice vitamin loss is serious, the researchers measured the freshly squeezed cucumber juice, pear juice, watermelon juice, carrot juice, and found that there are varying degrees of vitamin loss, the most serious even lost 90% of the vitamins; after the freshly squeezed, the fruit’s cell wall is destroyed, vitamin C will be exposed to the air oxidation occurs. Fruit juice in a large number of fructose is very easy to be converted into fat by the liver, children often drink it is easy to get fat, but also will make children prefer sweets, increasing the risk of obesity in children. Dietary fiber has been damaged to varying degrees, if you drink for a long time, it is easy to lead to constipation.