Frequently Asked Questions

We love blending and juicing because:

Both are a wonderful way to get more fruits and vegetables in your diet.

Both blended drinks and juice are easier to assimilate than solid food because they have been liquified.

Both are a healthy way to start any day!

Pros

Depending on which juicer you may have, it can be faster to make a smoothie with less cleaning up involved.

Some fruits and veggies, like bananas and avocados, don’t juice well and can be blended easily.

Because the pulp is still in the smoothie, it can ward off hunger longer than the juice can.
Most people already have a blender, so start-up costs are minimal.

Cons

Many hard/root vegetables (beets, carrots, etc.) are difficult to blend and taste better when juiced.

The fibre in the smoothie slows down the absorption of (micro) nutrients and the nutritional value is not as high as a glass of juice.

Pros

Freshly extracted fruit and vegetable juices furnish the body with the perfect balance of vitamins, minerals, amino acids, carbohydrates, antioxidants and enzymes.

The juicer breaks open the cell wall of the plant, releasing vitamins, minerals, enzymes and living juice.

Juice has a higher nutritional value per kilogram. It would be very difficult, if not impossible, to eat a kilogram of carrots, beets, and other leafy green vegetables in one day.

Juicing helps give our digestive system a break. Our bodies use most of the energy to digest food, so it is vital that we consume things that are quickly and easily digested. Fruit and veggie juices are basically pre-digested, making the nutrients more bio-available for our bodies to absorb.

Even if your digestive system is impaired, you can assimilate almost 100 percent of the nutrients contained in juice. Without all the insoluble fibre, the juice is absorbed into the body quickly and without any strain on the digestive system whatsoever

Cons

Usually involves more clean-up time.

More expensive than blending, as it requires more fresh produce and juicers are more expensive than blenders.

The great news is that you don’t need a juicer to make fresh juice. If you only have a blender and still want to juice, you still can! If you get a cheese cloth, nut milk bag or something similar, you can strain your blended drink and turn it into juice. It is recommended that you drink the juice immediately, or at least within a few hours as blending at high speed creates heat, and oxidisation, which starts killing off some nutrients.

With our DIY Juice Packs you can make fresh juice whenever you want to. Simply remove your juice pack of choice from the freezer and place it in the blender, allow it to thaw for a few minutes or simply add some water, blend, strain, pour and enjoy! The pulp that remains is fantastic for composting, feeding birds or making treats for your dogs.

Check out the video below to see how easy it is to make a juice in your Nutribullet:

No – although all the insoluble fibre (pulp) is removed from the juice, all juices still contain pectin, which is a form on soluble fibre that forms a gel that slows the emptying of the stomach and helps to slow glucose absorption. Soluble fibre has also been found to help lower overall and LDL cholesterol.

Insoluble fibre slows down our bodies absorption of nutrients; it cannot penetrate the intestinal wall and does not feed the body. It is only needed, in small quantities, to keep things moving.

It’s great that we are finally becoming aware of the harmful effects of sugar on our health. However, fruit sugar is unfortunately being tarnished by being painted with the same brush as white, refined sugar. The truth is that live fruit and vegetable sugars are not the same as white, refined sugars and do not cause the same harm.

Not really. Whatever the number is, they’re healthy calories.

Don’t be concerned about getting fat off of juice because you can look at the back of a potato chip bag and see that it has similar calories. A juice calorie isn’t the same as a potato chip calorie. These are very healthy calories, and if you’re worried about juice calories, you’re in the wrong mindset to being healthy.

Look more at the other amazing nutrients that could be in your glass. An avocado has a ton of calories, but you’ll never find anyone saying avocados will make you fat.

No, you can enjoy just 1 glass of juice a day and feel the benefits of it. Juicing for all of your meals is called a juice cleanse (aka ‘juice fast’ or ‘reboot’) and should be done with intention. One juice a day is a great way to get your daily dose of health.

All our products contain absolutely NO added or refined sugars, artificial colours, artificial flavourings, preservatives, added salt or refined fats. They are pure liquid gold with no nasties whatsoever.

We juice everything in a slow cold-pressed machine and immediately lock in the high-quality nutrients by blast-freezing them. We then deliver the juice (still frozen!) direct to your door.

Simply take the juice out the night before, place it in the fridge, and drink it when you want to the next day. Frozen juices are great additions to the lunchbox as they serve to keep things cool and by the time the kids break to eat/ drink, the juices are ready to be enjoyed!

Blast freezing is a rapid-freezing process where products are frozen at extremely low temperatures over a short period of time. The benefits are as follows:

Damaging bacteria within products are rendered inactive

Rapid temperature reduction greatly reduces the growth potential of harmful bacteria

Product colour, texture and nutritional value is sealed in

The prevention of large ice crystals forming which can damage food texture/quality

You may refer to the ‘Best Before’ date printed on each bottle for information on specific products. In general, once the juices have been blast frozen on the date of production, they can be safely stored in your freezer for up to 3 months!