I suggest waiting to introduce juice to your child until he is close to a year old. Nutritionally, children don't really need juice. In fact, lots of young children fill up on juice and then eat poorly at meals and snacks. Kids do need fruit in their diets, and an apple, for example, is always a better choice than apple juice because the apple has fiber. When you do start juice, look for 100 percent juice. Read the ingredient label, as "fruit drinks" and even "juice drinks" are not 100 percent juice. Limit juice intake to 4 ounces a day for young children, and 8 ounces a day for older kids.

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