Freshly made, natural and delicious. Juices are the easiest way to take the raw fruits and vegetables you need, à la carte: detox, energy, antioxidants … Choose the best combination for you!
ENERGY SHOT OF LEMON AND GINGER
It is a digestive juice, anti-inflammatory and protects mucous membranes, skin and sight. In mini format!
TONIC JUICE TO BREATHE BETTER
Protect yourself from infections with this juice based on celery, onion and beets.
MINERALIZING JUICE WITH DULSE SEAWEED
This juice gives you useful vitamins to fight aging such as C and E.
AMINOS SHOT, ELIXIR OF LIFE
Another juice in mini format that charges your batteries based on wheatgrass.
CARROT AND CELERY TONIC FOR LIVER
Its cleansing effect helps you expel toxins and feel fresher.
SUPER-ANTIOXIDANT JUICE OF RED FRUITS
A juice rich in antioxidants that favors the flexibility of your blood vessels.
Every day there are more juice shops and juice bars where you can taste the most diverse juices (without fiber) or smoothies (with fiber) of fruits and other freshly made vegetables.
We might think that we are facing a new fashion. However, consuming juices is a centuries-old tradition.
And it is not surprising that it resurfaces in our times with such intensity. It is the logical reaction to the bad habits of a society that abuses surperrefined, modified foods, loaded with chemicals and added sugars, so little nutritious and whose habitual consumption favors the appearance of degenerative and inflammatory diseases: diabetes, irritable bowel, thyroid problems, cancer, skin conditions …
VEGETABLES TO THE RESCUE
Those who consume more fresh and raw fruits and vegetables are generally less likely to suffer from inflammatory and degenerative diseases. Now, to benefit from its rejuvenating properties it is recommended to consume at least 5 servings of vegetables and 3 of fruits every day, preferably raw.
Most of us, with our schedules full, do not have the time or opportunity to consume such amounts each day. Adding fresh juices to the diet, especially vegetables, is an ideal way to complement it with the extract of the most nutritious foods and antioxidants, true elixirs of life.
Juicing is not only an easy and effective way to get the necessary daily ration of vegetables, but they allow the digestive system to rest by not having to digest so much fiber (in exclusively vegetable diets).
They have an almost immediate energetic and revitalizing effect, since their digestion is fast and light. And more if they are taken on an empty stomach in the morning!
2 WAYS TO MAKE JUICE
To extract the juices, we need to crush or crush the vegetables, ideally with a machine that separates fiber and liquid. There are several models, but I would highlight as a key difference the one between chewing extractors or cold press and centrifuge extractors with blade.
- “Cold press” extractors: these “chewers” or “cold press” extractors have a roller system that rotates very slowly to crush or “chew” food without heating or oxidizing it and preserving its properties to the maximum.
- Fast extractors: they crush by centrifugal cutting at high speed, so they have a more oxidizing effect on the juice obtained.
The important thing, whatever extractor we have, is to think about making juices daily and consume them freshly made. By separating fiber from the biological water contained in food, it oxidizes very quickly and its benefits are reduced or even lost. What was once antioxidant becomes oxidative.
The case of shakes is different, because when the pulp is maintained, oxidation is slower.
MULTIPLE BENEFITS OF JUICES
Another advantage of drinking raw juices is the ease with which nutrients are assimilated. When we consume whole vegetables, some enzymes, phytonutrients, vitamins, and minerals get trapped in the fiber; Consuming vegetable juices allows them to be incorporated into the bloodstream quickly.
The juices also have a slight laxative effect. They thus assist the body in the daily morning purification, which occurs naturally from 4 in the morning to 12 noon.
By providing the biological water of the vegetables – loaded with nutrients and phytonutrients – they help to replace the liquids lost in the metabolic processes. They also increase the alkalinity of organic fluids – especially juices that are less sweet and richer in chlorophyll and minerals – which stimulates the proper functioning of the immune and metabolic systems.
GREENER THAN FRUIT
It is vitally important to favor the use of green vegetables and use little or no fruit, or give priority to little sweet fruit. Otherwise, the juices would increase blood sugar levels too quickly and, if taken regularly, would not benefit the balance of the immune system or the brain.
- Less is more: when preparing juices, give priority to simple combinations. Choose 3 or 5 ingredients maximum to facilitate the work of the digestive system and assimilation.
- Put chlorophyll: include tender green leaves – spinach, lettuce, kale, parsley, basil, mint, beet greens … – or stems such as celery. They alkalize and provide chlorophyll, carotenes and minerals such as magnesium and iron.
- Do not forget the skin: when you make juices include the skin of fruits and vegetables – except that of citrus fruits, which is bitter. The skin is where more antioxidants are concentrated. Of course, make sure they are organic, because the skin also accumulates more pesticides in conventional crops.
