Until I visited Japan for the first time in 2009, I never knew purple carrots existed. So I was a little more than surprised when I first saw this drink in a convenience store…

Kagome Juice
Purple carrots in a juice box!

The name of this drink is yasai seikatsu 100 「Vegetable Life 100, 野菜生活１００」 and the packaging says the drink has 20% more polyphenols (a type of antioxidant) from the purple carrots.

Ingredients of the drink include:

  • mostly vegetables:
    • grape
    • apple
    • lemon
    • purple carrots
    • purple potatoes
    • purple cabbage
    • sweet potato
    • red bell pepper
    • cabbage
    • eggplant
    • asparagus
    • celery
    • Chinese cabbage
    • radish
    • kale
    • lettuce
    • watercress
    • spinach
    • parsley
    • beets
    • pumpkin
  • …and some fruit:
    • pomegranate
    • blueberry
    • prune
    • raspberry
    • blackcurrant
    • cranberry

The ratio of vegetables to fruit is 50/50, making this a 100% natural drink.

Nutritional information per 200ml (the size of this drink):

  • Energy: 80kcal
  • Protein: 0.7g
  • Fat: 0g
  • Sugars: 18.9g
  • Dietary fiber: 0.6g
  • Sodium: 69mg
  • Calcium: 23mg
  • Potassium: 350mg
  • Vitamin K: 0 ~ 8μg
  • Folic acid: 0 ~ 8μg
  • Sucrose: 3.1 ~ 4.7g
  • Polyphenol: 110mg