Monday, April 30, 2012

Juice Nashville

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"Did she just say juice cleanse?", you are asking your self, and indeed you read correctly.  A juice cleanse it was.  Nashville has a new company (Juice Nashville) from which you can buy a day's worth of juices with which to cleanse your body.  The important thing is that they are unpasteurized and you do not have to do any of the juicing work yourself.  Let me just tell you right now that juicing is a serious hassle.

In fact, I find juicing to be such a hassle that I gave my juicer to my neighbor.  Juicing is out of the realm of my time and talent.  I will say, though, that a freshly made juice is so delicious that you will not really want to hit your Minute Maid unless you just need a sugar high.

Also, I read this great blog post about pasteurization from Lauren Talbot.  The most common sense element of the idea of pasteurization is that while the juice is safe and will keep for a long time, it has been heated to a point that most of the benefits of a juice are lost.  It has become a sugar wasteland.  

Now that I have a Vitamix, I generally just throw everything in the  blender and drink it like a shake.  I am always sort of disturbed by the amount of pulp/fiber you lose when juicing, as I think the whole food is probably very important, thus my Vitamix.

Anyway, I got down a juicing rabbit hole, and I want to tell you all about Juice Nashville.  If you want to do a three day juice cleanse, like something that Gwynneth Paltrow would tell us to do on Goop, or if you want to order a week's worth of unpasteurized almond milk or carrot juice or what evers your heart may desire, you can order online at Juice Nashville.  Juice Nashville will deliver to your home or you can pick it up at the Nashville or Franklin Farmer's Market.  The Juice was great and packaged well.  I thoroughly enjoyed every juice.

Juices were as follows:
1) apple, kale, collard, lemon
2)apple, beet, kale, ginger
3) orange, grapefruit, apple, ginger
4) carrot
5) apple, carrot, ginger
6) almond milk

All the juices were a burst of fabulousness to my palate. Really delicious.  I will keep the labels forever so that I can create identical combinations in my Vitamix.  The most delicious and fascinating to me was the almond milk.  It was great.  I drink almond milk at home, and it is tasty.  BUT, the fresh unpasteurized almond milk was a whole unexpected experience in freshness.  It tasted like a liquified raw almond.  I have no interest in investing in an nut milker (is it me or does "nut milker" sound totally filthy like Cinemax after dark???!!!), so I can see investing in an almond milk a week for cereal and such.  HOWEVER, it is $6 dollars for each 16 oz bottle of juice; 2 cups of juice for $6!!!!!.  THAT IS A LOT, in case you are unversed in food pricing.  If I bought one almond milk a week, I could stretch in into one bowl of cereal and one of my oatmeal bakes.  I may try the almond milk for a few weeks and see how it goes.

In conclusion, Juice Nashville is amazing.  If I win the lottery, I am for sure having their juices delivered on a regular basis.  Until then, I will buy the almond milk and make my own concoctions in my Vitamix.  Womp Womp.  Would really like to win the lottery.

2 comments:

  1. I am doing this cleanse now...and I am finding it difficult to choke the juices down. I don't know how anyone could find them "delicious." :(

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