 Can you name a fruit whose processed juice is healthier than just eating the fruit itself? Here's the VCEAC of fruits and their juice. The black bars are the fruit, the white bars are the juice. VCEAC stands for vitamin C equivalent antioxidant capacity. So for example, even though apples don't actually contain 150 mg of vitamin C itself, they have other antioxidants that add up to the equivalent of that much antioxidant power. As you can see across the board, as you go from fruit to juice, the antioxidant capacity is slashed. In fact, the only reason the grape juice was even that high is because it happened to have extra vitamin C added to it, so kind of cheated. But wait a second, what's this? A fruit juice that has significantly more antioxidants and even greater phytonutrient availability? And the answer is, tomato juice. About twice the antioxidant power of tomatoes and five times the phytonutrient lycopene. And no, it was not a trick question. You may use a tomato like a vegetable, but it is a fruit because it's got seeds. Don't tell that to the Supreme Court, though, who having nothing better to do ruled in 1893 that tomatoes were vegetables, though they were only a batch of justices away from those that ruled Mr. Scott was not a citizen. So I wouldn't listen to him. Arkansas decided to have it both ways, declaring tomatoes both the official state fruit and the official state vegetable.