You can juice up for one-fourth the calories and carbs by turning your juice drink into a sparkling juice “spritzer”:

Just fill the glass 1/4 full with fruit juice and top off with club soda or seltzer. You also can:

• Mix the recipe by using 1/2 juice and 1/2 club soda if you want more juice flavor.
• Use flavored club soda to add more flavor to the drink.
• Add a garnish of fresh fruit—lemon or lime is fine for a squeeze of citrus flavor; apple, peach or other favorite fruit provides a mini snack. A sprig of mint is another option.

“Spritzer,” by the way, comes from the German “spritzen,” to squirt or spray. Americans adapted the word around 1915-1920 to refer to adding sparkling water to give carbonation to a beverage. A wine spritzer adds club soda to wine.

Add some spritz and a wedge to your fruit
juice. Photo by Torsten Schon | IST.