Even though countless studies have proven the importance of a diet containing plenty of fruits and vegetables, as many as 80 percent of people worldwide simply don’t eat enough on a daily basis. But results of a new study may make that statistic an easy one to change, according to researchers at the University of California Davis.

They say adding vegetable juice to the diet may help people reach the recommended 4 servings of vegetables per day.

Scientists followed a group of adults aged 40 to 65 for a period of 12 weeks for their findings. They found that when participants drank at least two cups of vegetable juice a day they met the daily recommendation. That’s compared to just 7 percent of subjects who didn’t drink a vegetable drink, like V8 juice.

In addition, participants with borderline high blood pressure were able to significantly reduce it by drinking one or two servings of vegetable juice a day.

Participants who drank the juice say they enjoyed it and felt like they were doing something good for themselves. Researchers say that makes drinking your veggies a solution that could work for people everywhere. "Enjoyment is so critical to developing eating habits you can stick with for the long-term. Health and nutrition professionals must help people find simple ways for people to get their vegetables or they simply won’t do it, and that means they won’t reap the benefits of a vegetable-rich diet. Vegetable juice is something that people enjoy, plus it’s convenient and portable, which makes it simple to drink every day," said the study’s co-author Dr Carl Keen.