Tropicana Products Inc. will stop claiming that its Healthy Heart orange juice will reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke, under a settlement reached with the Federal Trade Commission on
Thursday. The ads, which ran from 2002 to early 2004, claimed that drinking two to three cups of Tropicana orange juice each day would lower systolic blood pressure by 10 points, raise HDL cholesterol
by 21% and improve the HDL-to-LDL cholesterol ratio by 16%, increase blood folate levels by 45% and lower blood homocysteine levels by 11%.
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