1st ingredient: CARROT
Carrots are an all natural energy blast! They are an excellent source of vitamin C, including most of the B complex, iron, potassium, phosphorus, and sodium and beta-carotene. Carrots are easy to digest and cause the liver to release bile and excessive accumulated cholesterol. Carrot juice is most beneficial for improving eyesight, as well as bones and joints, and it prevents anemia, especially in young adults.
Serving size 1 cup:
Fat 0%
Saturated Fat 0%
Cholesterol 0%
Sodium 2%
Carbs 4%
Sugar 6g
Protein 1g
2nd ingredient: APPLE
Every person needs to add fluids to their body every day. Fresh fruit juice is a healthy way to add fluid to your diet without adding many calories. Apple juice contains Vitamin A and Vitamin C. It relieves arthritis and rheumatism pain, and also cleanses the kidneys and the liver. Phytonutrients slow the break down of bad cholesterol and therefore help prevent build up of cholesterol in the arteries.
Serving size: 1 cup
Fat 0%
Saturated Fat 0%
Cholesterol 0%
Sodium 0%
Carbs 7%
Fiber 20%
Protein 0%
3rd ingredient: GINGER
This beige, knobby root has a bite, a sweetness and woodsy aroma all its own. Ginger aids in healing vocal chords if you have laryngitis. It also acts as expectorant, helping rid the sinus cavities of mucus and the lungs of phlegm. The knobby bulb causes blood vessels to dilate so that at first you perspire and then feel cool. This property makes ginger a good food to ingest if you have a fever. This herb contains essential oils, protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, vitamin C, choline, folic acid, inositol, manganese, panthotenic acid, silicon, and a small amount of vitamin B3. All together about 50 types of antioxidants are identified in extract of ginger root.
Monday, May 3, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Fresh Orange Pineapple Juice
This is really the easiest and yummiest raw recipe! Juice oranges and pineapple. It's so simple and yet so good. Pineapple contains bromelain, a special enzyme that is used in muscle injuries. It aids in digestion, blood thinning and rheumatoid arthritis. It thins mucus, is anti inflammatory, and speeds up wound healing. Oranges contain excellent portions of vitamin C, a healthful water-soluble antioxidant. Vitamin C combats harmful free radicals in the body, preventing damage, fighting infections and protecting cells that could otherwise be susceptible to diseases. Vitamin C also increases iron absorption within the body, helping prevent an iron deficiency. This is our fresh juice this week - always juiced with fresh/never frozen fruit. Stop by the cafe and try a juice! Small - $1.99 Large 2.65 Enjoy!
Friday, February 19, 2010
Fruit & Vegetable Color Pigments
The color pigments of fruits and vegetables contain different health components that are necessary for good health and vitality. Processed foods have little or NO positive nutritional value. Uncooked fruits and vegetables are an imperative part of the human diet because they are whole foods that grow naturally on this Earth, full of live cells, enzymes, fiber, and vitamins that help catalyze all of the complex chemical reactions in our bodies.
Phytonutrients are natural bioactive compounds found in plants. They act as antioxidants, stimulate detoxification enzymes, strengthen the immune system, positively affect hormones, and act as antibacterial or antiviral agents. Common phytonutrients include carotenoids, coumarins, flavonoids, indoles, lignans, isoflavones (including genistein and daidzen) organosulfurs and phytosterols. Hundreds of other phytonutrients have been discovered, usually related to the color of fruits and vegetables — green, yellow-orange, red, blue-purple, and white.. This leads to the recommendation that you should eat fruits and vegetables of varied color each day.
Despite these benefits, only 10% of us are able to follow this advice. Most people find it hard to eat this many servings of fruit and vegetables on a consistent basis. For those of us facing that challenge, we are probably not consuming the necessary dosage of vitamins and minerals that our bodies need to stay healthy. Traditional vitamin supplements do not provide us with phytonutrients.
If you are concerned about getting a sufficient amount of phytonutrients, juicing provides a great, natural way to get the vitamins your body needs. Maximize your phytochemical intake with fresh whole fruit and vegetable juice. If you find it difficult to eat the 7-9 servings of fruits and vegetables each day, especially in the recommended variety that give you the broad range of vitamins and nutrients that you need, our fresh juice fusions are the perfect thing.
Always different every week - we never use powders or frozen fruits/vegetables. Juiced with fresh whole fruit and vegetables. Our juice right now is "Flower Power" - Pineapple, Flowering Kale, Granny Smith Apple, and Carrot. Just think of all of the daily servings of fruits/veggies you can get out of just one of these juices:
* Pineapple contains 131 percent of the DV for vitamin C. It also has 2 percent of the DV for vitamin A, 2 percent of the DV for calcium and 3 percent of the DV for iron. A serving of pineapple has 2mg of sodium, which is less than 1 percent of the DV for sodium.(1 cup serving size)
*Flowering Kale - Low in Saturated Fat, Cholesterol and Sodium. High in Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Vitamin B6, Calcium, Potassium, Copper, Manganese, Dietary Fiber, Protein, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Folate, Iron, Magnesium and Phosphorus.
* Apples are a good source of Vitamin C with 8.4mg, which is 14% of the daily value in a 2,000 calorie diet.
*Carrots are nutritional heroes; they store a goldmine of nutrients. No other vegetable or fruit contains as much carotene as carrots, which the body converts to vitamin A. This is a truly versatile vegetable and an excellent source of vitamins B
and C as well as calcium pectate, an extraordinary pectin fiber that has been found to have cholesterol-lowering properties.
Don't have time to eat 1 cup of pineapple, a handful of flowering kale, one green apple, and 2 carrots? This is the miracle of juicing! You can get all of these fruits and veggies in just one 12oz cup of juice! Stop by for a juice today!! :-D You won't believe how much healthier you feel with juicing!
Phytonutrients are natural bioactive compounds found in plants. They act as antioxidants, stimulate detoxification enzymes, strengthen the immune system, positively affect hormones, and act as antibacterial or antiviral agents. Common phytonutrients include carotenoids, coumarins, flavonoids, indoles, lignans, isoflavones (including genistein and daidzen) organosulfurs and phytosterols. Hundreds of other phytonutrients have been discovered, usually related to the color of fruits and vegetables — green, yellow-orange, red, blue-purple, and white.. This leads to the recommendation that you should eat fruits and vegetables of varied color each day.
Despite these benefits, only 10% of us are able to follow this advice. Most people find it hard to eat this many servings of fruit and vegetables on a consistent basis. For those of us facing that challenge, we are probably not consuming the necessary dosage of vitamins and minerals that our bodies need to stay healthy. Traditional vitamin supplements do not provide us with phytonutrients.
If you are concerned about getting a sufficient amount of phytonutrients, juicing provides a great, natural way to get the vitamins your body needs. Maximize your phytochemical intake with fresh whole fruit and vegetable juice. If you find it difficult to eat the 7-9 servings of fruits and vegetables each day, especially in the recommended variety that give you the broad range of vitamins and nutrients that you need, our fresh juice fusions are the perfect thing.
Always different every week - we never use powders or frozen fruits/vegetables. Juiced with fresh whole fruit and vegetables. Our juice right now is "Flower Power" - Pineapple, Flowering Kale, Granny Smith Apple, and Carrot. Just think of all of the daily servings of fruits/veggies you can get out of just one of these juices:
* Pineapple contains 131 percent of the DV for vitamin C. It also has 2 percent of the DV for vitamin A, 2 percent of the DV for calcium and 3 percent of the DV for iron. A serving of pineapple has 2mg of sodium, which is less than 1 percent of the DV for sodium.(1 cup serving size)
*Flowering Kale - Low in Saturated Fat, Cholesterol and Sodium. High in Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin K, Vitamin B6, Calcium, Potassium, Copper, Manganese, Dietary Fiber, Protein, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Folate, Iron, Magnesium and Phosphorus.
* Apples are a good source of Vitamin C with 8.4mg, which is 14% of the daily value in a 2,000 calorie diet.
*Carrots are nutritional heroes; they store a goldmine of nutrients. No other vegetable or fruit contains as much carotene as carrots, which the body converts to vitamin A. This is a truly versatile vegetable and an excellent source of vitamins B
and C as well as calcium pectate, an extraordinary pectin fiber that has been found to have cholesterol-lowering properties.
Don't have time to eat 1 cup of pineapple, a handful of flowering kale, one green apple, and 2 carrots? This is the miracle of juicing! You can get all of these fruits and veggies in just one 12oz cup of juice! Stop by for a juice today!! :-D You won't believe how much healthier you feel with juicing!
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Good Nutrition is Priceless
Who ever said that eating healthy has to be expensive? Or taste bad? Here at The First Edition Cafe we offer menu items prepared with fresh whole-food ingredients, made with love, and at the lowest prices in OKC. Anything out of a can, box, or bag just won't do for us - and why would we want to sell unhealthy junk food to you? If we wouldn't eat it - we don't expect our customers to. We try to purchase organic when affordable and available (we're a very small business - we do everything we can - when we can.)
America is evolving into a more health conscious society, and we're realizing that these big time dollar-hungry-corporate-food-chains may not necessarily have our best health interests in mind. We totally do, and you can tell by the food! True everything we serve is not healthy, but there has got to be balance, we think. We can't all be perfect all of the time, and we'll be the first to admit. Healthy living/eating habits don't just happen overnight. You really have to work on them constantly to gain the positive results you want. Come show us your support OKC! BONUS - for giving us a few minutes of your time - mention you read this blog and receive a 10% discount on your next purchase at the cafe!
America is evolving into a more health conscious society, and we're realizing that these big time dollar-hungry-corporate-food-chains may not necessarily have our best health interests in mind. We totally do, and you can tell by the food! True everything we serve is not healthy, but there has got to be balance, we think. We can't all be perfect all of the time, and we'll be the first to admit. Healthy living/eating habits don't just happen overnight. You really have to work on them constantly to gain the positive results you want. Come show us your support OKC! BONUS - for giving us a few minutes of your time - mention you read this blog and receive a 10% discount on your next purchase at the cafe!
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