20+ Must Read Articles if You're Starting a Juice Business
Since we started the first commercial juicing blog in 2014, we have been writing articles on every aspect of juicing from creating recipes, buying produce, making juice, and even calculating profit while running a juice bar. Below are more than twenty articles that our readers find the most educational.
How to Pick a Ripe Mango
Finding a perfect, juicy, and sweet mango at your local grocery store or farmers market may seem like a challenge. If you’re unsure of what to look for to find a perfectly ripe mango, read on.
2 Nutritious Vegetable Juice Recipes That Your Taste Buds Will Love
Let’s be honest, most people don’t like eating their veggies. We can snack on fruits all day long but when it comes down to eating broccoli or kale, we struggle. Thank goodness for juicing. Drinking veggie juice actually helps your body absorb nutrients better than eating cooked vegetables. Plus, you don’t have to struggle to enjoy it. Today we’re sharing our favorite vegetable juice recipe for you to try. But first, let’s examine the benefits. Benefits of Vegetable Juice Did you know that the average person should consume two cups of fresh vegetable juice every day? I know what you’re thinking: that sounds like a lot. Even if you can only manage one cup of juice a day (or every other day), it’s worth it. Some of the health benefits of drinking green vegetable juice include: Lowers Risk of Chronic Disease Vegetable juice is high in antioxidants including vitamin A, beta-carotene, lycopene, phenolic compounds, and phytonutrients. These antioxidants can help your body fight off the risk of healthy cells turning into cancerous cells. It can also lower your risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and even some autoimmune diseases. Improves Heart Health Potassium, iron, and vitamin C can help stimulate proper circulation, improve the amount of collagen in your body, lower your blood pressure, and reduce the risk of damaged blood vessels and arteries. Improve Skin & Hair Drinking vegetable juice regularly can help reduce the look of blemishes, acne, wrinkles, age spots, eczema, rosacea, and psoriasis. The nutrients also help prevent hair loss and will give you lush long healthy hair! Supports Detoxification Whether you went out and binged for a weekend or you’re just looking to jump-start a new diet to help with weight loss, vegetable juice supports the detox process within your body. This is especially true for your liver. What Vegetables Can You Juice? When picking vegetables to juice, whether it be for a fruit juice or a vegetable juice, you want what is going to give you the most flavor, the most juice, and the most nutrients. Water-based veggies like cucumber make your base juice while vegetables like kale and spinach provide the nutrients. Some of the best vegetables to juice include: Cucumber Carrots Broccoli Sweet Potato Cabbage Celery Kale Swiss Chard Spinach Wheatgrass Celery If you’re unsure about which juicer to use, look at our guide to juicers here!
Juice Served Here is Returning as a Wholesale Beverage Brand
Exciting news Thursday as Juice Served Here announced that they are returning this fall as a wholesale brand. According to an article on BevNET, JSH will “potentially feature 20 SKUs in multiple categories, including cold-pressed juice, cold-pressed lemonade, sports drinks, kombucha, and coffee.” Owner Greg Alterman admits “Obviously, a lot has happened in the juice world in the last 18 months — there’s been some price erosion. But with us having been the Rolls Royce or Bentley of the juice space, I think there’s room for a beverage with the DNA like ours to be able to reinvent itself by being more price relevant and reassessing the functionality in our beverages.”
Juice Companies Using Term "Wellness Shot" Receive Cease and Desist Letters
Multiple juice companies have received cease and desist letters for using the term “Wellness Shot” in their marketing and packaging.
How Chef Gary FX LaMorte Uses His Goodnature X-1 Mini Pro
Juice presses are gaining popularity in the culinary scene with chefs getting creative with how they are using the equipment as part of their tool-set. Chef Gary FX LaMorte, specifically, is expanding the concept of “cold-pressed” to include broths for traditional seafood cuisine. “Having the Goodnature X-1 Mini in Our Arsenal of Equipment Gives a Competitive Edge in the Kitchen. Cold-Pressed Savory Raw Broths Such as Aguachile and Gazpacho Are Far More Superior than Traditional methodology.” – Chef Gary FX LaMorte
What are Goodnature Customers Saying?
As you read through these inspiring stories from our customers, you will find that it’s not just about the awesome juice our juice machines make, but more importantly about the willingness and ability to provide support to our Goodnature family all over the globe, in every possible way that we can.
Best Juice Bars and Juice Cleanses in San Diego
San Diego is known for having delicious, locally-sourced food and drinks, including juice! Everyone loves treating themselves to a crisp, cold-pressed juice. If you’re looking for the best juice bars around San Diego, you have found the right list. Best Juice Bars in San Diego Liv Juice Bar and Smoothies 1225 University Ave, San Diego, CA This small but quaint juice bar in San Diego carries a handful of various raw juices. In addition to juice cleanse plans, they offer juice selections with intuitive names such as their Skin Tonic Juice, Eye Opener Juice, Flu Fighter Juice and more. I’ll take 100, please! Liv Juice Bar also serves a large array of healthy smoothies, sandwiches, and soups. Juice Alchemy 3156 5th Ave, San Diego, CA Juice Alchemy is a made-to-order juice shop that focuses on serving fresh ingredients from local farmers. They offer fresh juices, smoothies, wellness shots, and more. If you like starting your morning off with a fresh-pressed celery juice, Juice Alchemy has you covered. Juice Wave 3733 Mission Blvd, San Diego, CA In 2014, Juice Wave made its first debut in a food truck at the North Park Farmer’s Market. After a year of operating out of the food truck, they opened their first-ever brick and mortar location in Mission Beach. Their menu includes a wide array of cold-pressed juice, wellness shots, acai bowls, nut mylk and more! I’m not sure about you, but the Blue Velvet almond milk with alkaline water, blue majik vanilla bean, and dates sounds amazing! Best Juice Cleanses in San Diego Nekter Juice Bar They offer four locations around San Diego Regardless of where you’re at in San Diego, you’re bound to find a Nekter Juice Bar location near you. They serve handcrafted juices, smoothies, and bowls packed with nutrient-dense ingredients you can’t say no to! Nekter also provides foolproof cleanses and juice detoxes for their customers – choose from their two packages, Celery Detox or Classic Detox. Through their website, you can easily customize your cleanse duration and any add-ons that you would like. If you’re looking for fresh and easily accessible juice in San Diego, Nekter Juice Bar is a great place to visit! Vitality Tap 5980 Village Way, San Diego, CA 650 1st Ave, San Diego, CA Vitality Tap carries organic juice, shooters, superfood bowls, smoothies, and juice cleanses! You can easily stop in and grab your favorite juice while on the go (they also offer 64oz growlers so you can stock up for later). Choose from their wide selection of juice cleanses such as the Starter, Lifestyle, Slimming, and more.
Juicero Rises From the Dead as a Soap Machine
Juicero is known as one of the worst technology startup disasters in recent history. The company raised $120 Million from big name VC’s like Kleiner Perkins and Alphabet Inc. (yes, that’s Google), and about a year later went kaput.
Spread the Juice – Denver
Denver has long been known for its craft beer and is the home to more breweries than any city in the United States – with the exception of Chicago. It is no wonder then, that the mile high city’s appreciation for quality handcrafted beverages has resulted in a juice boom with a growing demand for true, cold pressed juice. A few weeks ago while traveling to Denver for a conference, I decided to take the opportunity to visit some of our juice bar customers and see what they were up to. As I started doing my research, I realized that the majority of the juice bars offering fresh, cold pressed juice in Denver are part of the Goodnature family! I made it my mission to visit as many of them as I could, including two new lifestyle brands that are opening very soon. Stay tuned for juice recipes from some of these awesome juice bars! Read on for a tour of some of the best places in Denver to find real cold pressed juice or scroll down for the list. The Juicing Tree Website: juicingtree.com Instagram: juicingtree.com This is where it all began. The Juicing Tree was the first cold pressed juice bar to set up shop in Denver, opening in 2012. Fast forward seven years, The Juicing Tree is a solid fixture in Denver with two locations. Paul started The Juicing Tree with just a few Norwalk juicers and since then has added two Goodnature X-1s to keep up with the demand. The thing that stood out to me more than everything else at The Juicing Tree is the extensive menu with its unique and flavorful juices. Paul credits his large variety of juice and juice ingredients on his need to ‘always be creating’ and perfecting recipes that can be consistently replicated. I was able to sample many of the juices and nut mylks, all of which tasted amazing, but my two favorites were “Jumpsuit” (Arugula, fennel, celery, granny smith, ginger and lime) and “Insalata” (kale, spinach, romaine, chard, celery, cilantro, cucumber, leek, jalapeno and lemon). Jumpsuit had a very distinct licorice flavor due to the fennel, which I love. Insalata tastes uncannily like gazpacho, and in my opinion is a great meal replacement juice. Sound yummy? Well they are!
The War on Raw Juice
It’s a warm day in Miami, the type where the sun feels good but not too hot, the perfect amount of ocean breeze. I’m laying on a reclining chair on the beach, head tilted back, enjoying the peaceful rumbling sound of the ocean in the distance. Like the Millennial I am I opened my phone to check Instagram… I saw something that gave me a sinking feeling in my stomach. Our fellow juicepreneur Katie Raquel, owner of Katie’s Coldpress in Monterey, California, was forced by the government to shut down her new juice bar that she opened on her local Army base, the Presidio. It was just three months earlier at JuiceCon 2018 that Katie announced she would be opening that very same juice bar, with much support from the audience. Not in my country…? At first I thought there must be some mistake! Certainly our own US government wouldn’t make it illegal for our service men and women to nourish their bodies with the water from fruit and vegetables! But then reality set in—this is America where we have the juxtaposition of being the largest consumers of raw juice in the world, yet also have the strictest regulations, banning it for wholesale distribution. And apparently, any distribution at all on a Navy base according to their Tri-Service Food Code. Here is the language regarding juice in the food code: 3-202.110 Juice, treated* Commercially processed Pre-PACKAGED JUICE shall– (A) Be obtained from a processor with a HACCP system as specified in 21 CFR Part 120 – HACCP Systems; N and (B) Be obtained pasteurized or otherwise treated to attain a 5-log reduction of the most resistant microorganism of public health significance as specified in 21 CFR Part 120.24 – Process Controls. So, there you have it. If you plan on bringing bottles of juice onto a military base, even if it’s sold direct to the consumer, it must be pasteurized or HPP’d. This was a surprise even to the inspectors that approved the space, and to the excited troops and Commander who hosted a ribbon cutting ceremony for Katie. Word came down from the higher-ups that Katie must CEASE and DESIST immediately selling juice to the troops, for their own safety (oh, please). Terrible? Yes. But surprising? Not really. The government has generally taken a strong stance against the distribution of raw juice in the US since 1996, immediately following the Odwalla E. coli outbreak.
5 Inspirational Photos by Goodnature Customers
Lately some of the Goodnature family have been getting really creative with veggies and their juice machines on Instagram, check out what they’ve been up to. Can you top these?? Tag @goodnaturepro on Instagram with hashtag #goodnaturefamily and we will re-share with the community! Juice Box Las Vegas The first one is from @thejuiceboxlv with a celery display on their X-1 Mini: Juice Life This display of asparagus in their Goodnature X-1 is by @juice.life.salisbury: Glow Juicery This one—possibly the most unique—is by @glowjuicerpei in Canada. Although I don’t recommend juicing tulips, I certainly won’t say it can’t be done! Main Squeeze These two are my favorites, displaying full recipes in the hopper of their X-1, by @mainsqueezejuiceco_lc: Excited to see how this trend develops, what can you do with your juice press? #Goodnaturefamily