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Growing up in a warm country, a prerequisite for a blistering hot day – about 10 months out of the year –was to pay a visit to the juice bar around the corner from our flat.  The proprietor would stack the counters up with colorful pyramids of oranges, beets, mangoes, guavas and pomegranates, depending on what was in season.  Vases filled with rods of sugar cane and long carrots anchored the artful arrangements to create an edible landscape.  Once the juicers started to whir, the sweet scent of freshness would dance through the steamy streets, luring customers in like a pied piper.   He’d create his own signature fruit and veggie ‘cocktails’, mixing beet with orange, carrot and mango, a soulful blend of sweet and savory.  At a time when soda made it to our side of the globe, juicing was just pure refreshment.  

Now, we know that fresh juice provides us with pure goodness in a glass.  Some even believe it can transform your health, with medical experts like Dr. Oz extolling the virtues of green drinks.  Packed with live enzymes, vitamins, minerals, fiber and antioxidants, fresh juice also helps boost metabolism, fight infection, build tissue and strong bones…and help everything move along the way it’s supposed to, if you know what I mean.

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month and eating a diet rich in fiber and plant based nutrients has been linked to reducing your risk. Here’s 5 Reasons Why Juicing At Home Is a Savvy Thing.

• It’s alive!  Most of the juice you purchase at the store has been heat pasteurized, which destroys bacteria along with many of the beneficial nutrients. Making it at home, you get the benefit of live enzymes that activate your digestion.
  
  
• The cleaner way to leaner.  You get the best of F+V, including fiber and concentrated nutrients, while reaping the benefits of quick-release energy in a flash.  This can make you feel fuller faster with few calories. 
  
  
• You get your daily dose.  Squeezing in your 5-9 a day in a glass is a cinch when you sip it.
  
  
• Kids love the action.  Get them involved and introduce them to healthy eating habits.
  
  
• Saves you dough.  At only about $.40 a glass, you can’t beat that at any juice bar. 
  

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We love the Samson Juicer because it’s powerful, easy to clean and quiet.  Plus it makes pasta and baby food so what’s not to love about it?  Pick one up and get two FREE bottles of our Fruit + Vegetable Wash Concentrate.

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JUICY CONCOCTIONS. Important Tip: Make sure to clean all fruit and vegetables with Eat Cleaner Fruit + Vegetable Wash and Wipes before you juice to enhance safety and flavor.  If you’re washing a lot at once, pick up our Fruit + Vegetable Wash Concentrate, add 2-3 capfuls to water and let them soak for 2 minutes.  Scrub with a veggie brush and you’re in business. The ABC Elixir Eat Cleaner Insight. Beets are an incredible blood tonic and natural cleanser for the liver.  This combo is rich in vitamins beta carotene, zinc, vitamin C, and chromium, excellent for boosting carbohydrate metabolism. Makes approx. 14 ounces 1 green or golden apple cut into slices 1/2 small uncooked beet 5 celery stalks, ends trimmed 1/2 lemon, peeled 1/2- to 1-inch piece ginger root, peeled In a juicer, push through apple, beet, celery, lemon, and ginger. Stir the juice and pour into a glass. Serve at room temperature or chilled, as desired. Watermelon Carrot Chiller Eat Cleaner Insight. Watermelon contains even more Lycopene than tomatoes, which has been linked with cancer prevention.  The added benefits of beta carotene from carrots rounds out this tasty warm weather welcome.  Makes approx. 12 ounces 8 Large Carrots 3 Large Rindless Watermelon Wedges 1 Large Fresh Mint Sprig In a juicer, push through carrots and watermelon wedges.  Chill for at least one hour.  Garnish with fresh mint sprig. Cool Cuke and Honeydew Fizz Eat Cleaner Insight. Cucumber is a good source of folic acid, potassium, vitamins A and C and is a natural anti-inflammatory, maintaining overall health and wellness.  Honeydew melons are also chock full of vitamin C and are naturally low in calories.  Combined with sparkling water to give it a fun fizz, Cukes and Honeydews are the perfect mates. Makes approx. 16 ounces 1 cucumber, peeled, seeded and chopped 2 cups cubed honeydew melon 1 cup sparkling water 1 Fresh lime In a blender, pulse cucumber and honeydew until smooth.  Add sparkling water and blend thoroughly.  Pour over ice or chill and finish with a squeeze of lime.   Get Juiced Up Packed with live enzymes, vitamins, minerals, fiber and antioxidants, fruit and veggies make the best juice ‘mocktails’ when mixed together, also helping to cut the sugar.  They can also help boost metabolism, fight infection, build tissue and strong bones…and help everything move along the way it’s supposed to, if you know what I mean.  So when you eat cleaner, you’re doing it from the outside-in.  There, I said it! Plus, you can’t beat beets for their blood boosting properties.   The Red CAB Mocktail 4 large carrots 2 green apples 1 beet 1T grated ginger Pass the ingredients through a juicer.  Serve chilled with a slice of lemon.

 

Dr. ‘Dad’ Shawki Ibrahim is a Ph.D. Environmental Health Sciences and M.S. Agriculture.  Mareya Ibrahim, Chief Executive Mom of EAT CLEANER, is a natural foods industry veteran and food safety education advocate based in Orange County, CA.