Fruit Blend
Juice Plus Fruit Blend capsules contain acerola cherry, apple, beet, cranberry, date mango, lemon peel, orange, pineapple, and prune juice powder concentrates, as well as additional plant based vitamins.
As would be the case with whole fruits, the benefits of the Juice Plus Fruit Blend supposedly lie in its vitamin a and c and folic acid content. However, all of the ingredients are lumped together in a proprietary blend with all of the doses obscured.
This means anyone seeking a specific benefit of one of the natural fruits it contains will have no way of knowing if it will be able to provide it. To be fair though, given the overall weight of the product, we can fairly safely assume all of the ingredients present are used in tiny doses.
That essentially means this Juice Plus product amounts to nothing more than the global health industry's most overpriced multivitamin tablet (1).
Vegetable Blend
Juice Plus Vegetable Blend capsules feature acerola cherry, beet, broccoli, cabbage, carrot, kale, garlic, lemon peel, parsley, rice bran, spinach, and tomato powders, plus additional plant based vitamins.
Anyone who has ever used a greens powder to replace whole foods in their diet before will be familiar with many of these ingredients, as they are quite common. The problem is, they are usually added to more effective ingredients, rather than them being the heart of the powder.
Worse still, with everything again being lumped into a proprietary blend, we can't tell the exact quantities of each ingredient present. So, while we don't know if it will be of little use or no use, we certainly know it won't provide any great benefit or be worth what it costs (2).
Berry Blend
Juice Plus Berry Blend capsules consist of artichoke, bilberry, blackberry, black currant, cocoa, blueberry, cherry, concord grape, cranberry, elderberry, pomegranate, and raspberry powders. It then also has additional plant based vitamins.
This is perhaps the best Juice Plus blend as, while the vitamin content is again very low, berries are rich in antioxidants. Clinical trials prove that these provide vital benefits to the human body, such as boosting heart health, fighting diseases, and reducing inflammation.
Unfortunately, the amount you will get by consuming Juice Plus products is still far below what you would get from eating whole fruits, and clinical trials by health professionals at Harvard University suggest a dosage of this size is essentially worthless (3).
Omega Blend
Juice Plus Omega Blend capsules use a mix of algae, fruits, and seeds. It includes pomegranate seed oil, raspberry seed oil, sea buckthorn berry oil, safflower seed oil, tomato oil, and algae oil. It is said to be rich in a balanced mix of both EPA and DHA omega 3, 5, 6, 7, and 9 fatty acids.
Unlike most of the other blends, the Juice Plus site is fairly vague on what the Omega Blend actually contains, and you can only find the details by looking at the label on the tub itself. When you do examine it though, it quickly becomes clear why they are being so secretive.
For starters, it doesn't include any of the top plant based sources of omega fatty acids, such as flax seeds, walnuts, seaweed, canola oil, hemp seeds, edamame, kidney beans, or chia seeds.
Then there is the dose of omega fatty acids that the blend actually uses. It is recommended that you consume between 1.1 and 1.6 grams of omega 3s alone each day, which is more than the entire 925 mg blend of omega fatty acids in each serving of Juice Plus Omega Blend (4).
Put all of this together, and the Juice Plus Omega Blend has neither the quality or quantity of omega fatty acids required for it to back up the health claims the brand make about the blend.
References
https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/MVMS-HealthProfessional/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6047871/
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/antioxidants/
https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Omega3FattyAcids-HealthProfessional/#h2