Fruit of the Vine Pure Irish Apple Juice (Good Food Store Ballsbridge, Gourmet Rathgar, Mad Melon Dundrum, Cavistons Dun Laoghaire, Naturally Naas, Jim's Country Kitchen & Fruit `n' Nut Place Portlaoise, Simple Simon Donegal Town, 75cl £2.25-£2.50). This excellent new juice from Dublin vine nurseryman David Llewellyn uses a wide range of apples to produce three flavours, or sweetness levels. My favourite is Tangy with a Sharp Bite - but if you want to drink lots, Sweet and Fruity, made from Cox's, is the one to choose.
Innocent Cranberry & Raspberry Smoothie (Good Food Store Ballsbridge, Hopsack Rathmines, Cavistons Dun Laoghaire, Evergreen Galway, Tir na nOg Sligo, 250ml £1.85-£2.25). The favourite in the recent BBC Food and Drink juice tasting is one of a UK range of four smoothies selling like crazy since it was launched here a few months ago.
St Michael Freshly Squeezed Orange Juice with Raspberry (Marks & Spencer, 500ml £1.95). This thick, fruity and fresh-tasting juice is an absolute winner, with just the right balance of sweetness from the rasps and citrus bite from the orange to please most palates. To be consumed within a few days.
Eden Organic Carrot Juice (Down to Earth, George's Street and some other health food outlets, 75cl £4.05). Controversial, this. Although I actually liked its earthy, home-grown-carrots taste, my home tasting panel found it too like cold, sweet carrot soup for comfort. Expensive, too. But carrot juice - in moderation - is good for the liver.
Tropicana Sanguinello (widely available, l litre £2.69). Like our new juice bars, the success of the American Tropicana range shows Ireland is thirstier for health drinks than most of us might think. This one, made from Sicilian blood oranges, is especially pleasant to drink in quantity.
Ocean Spray Cranberry & Apple Juice (widely available, 1 litre £1.29). High-acid cranberry juice is particularly good for urinary disorders, but can be too bitter to enjoy. Purists may object to the touch of sucrose added here, but that and the apple element make for a thoroughly palatable drink.