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"Drink to your health"
After years of catering to the Japanese, producing top-quality tomato and vegetable juices, Kagome has opened a facility in Los Banos. The company, the largest producer of tomato and vegetable products in Japan, hopes to convince Americans to drink their vegetables. Their no-nonsense, super-healthy tomato-vegetable juices, packaged inside pretty yellow bottles, are loaded with lycopene, beta carotene and lots of other phytonutrients known to fight everything from viruses to cancer. Flavors include a very basic Sweet Summer Tomato juice; a slightly more flavorful True Vegetable Garden, which includes a dash of lime plus various vegetable juices; and a thick, rich Carrot Ginger Zest. The 100 percent vegetable juices, which come in 11.5 and 30-ounce bottles, sell for $2.19 and $4, respectively. They are available at Whole Foods and Berkeley Bowl. The company also makes 100 percent fruit juices. Visit www.kagome.us/index.aspx for more information.