Is V8 juice really good nutrition, or is it all commercialized hype?
an eight-ounce glass of regular V8 has 620 mg of sodium, so it can’t make a health claim on the label. Instead, Campbell is running magazine ads that say that V8 is “an excellent source of the antioxidants Vitamin A and Vitamin C.” They add this unapproved claim: “Research suggests that antioxidants may help slow changes that occur with normal aging.” It’s too early to know if that’s true. And it may be that other antioxidants like vitamin E–which aren’t plentiful in V8–are the ones that slow those changes. The ad is mum on one change that clearly occurs with aging: blood pressure inches up. More than half of Americans in their sixties have high blood pressure. And that’s a change that salty V8 makes worse.
