Drink Your Way to Optimal Health

  • Category: Food
  • February 6, 2017

Eating healthy these days can be tough with our hectic schedules. But with Dubai’s first homegrown cold pressed juice brand—Essentially— it doesn’t have to be. Wiebke Katsoudas, Founder of Essentially explains more…

The Benefits of Cold Pressed

Cold-pressed juices contain three to five times the nutritional content of those produced by a standard juicer AND cold-pressed juices keep the live enzymes intact for a much longer period, explains Katsoudas. She adds, “Cold-pressed juice never compromises. Juice should never be cooked. Pasteurization, no matter how ‘gentle’ heats juice and kills vitamins, minerals, and live enzymes. We never pasteurize, pressure pack, use concentrate, freeze, or water down our juice. We never add sugar, sweeteners, fillers, or preservatives.”

Probiotics

From the day you were born, Katsoudas points out your digestive tract has been exposed to a steady stream of bacteria – some helpful, some harmful. “One key to intestinal health is maintaining a balance of these helpful and harmful bacteria,” she says, as over time, many factors including diet, aging, antibiotic use, travel, medications, illness, stress, and hormonal changes, can disrupt intestinal balance. Probiotics are live bacteria and yeasts that are good for your health, especially your digestive system. To help level the playing field of good and bad bacteria, you should add a daily supplement or probiotic fortified foods and beverages to your diet.

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Tips to Improve Gut Health

  • Fresh vegetables and vegetable juices, fruits including avocado, healthy fats such as coconut oil, nut butters, flax and olive oil, probiotic rich foods such as fermented cabbage (such as German Sauerkraut) and bone broth (only from guaranteed organic bone marrow) are great for your gut health.
  • Avoid all processed foods such cookies, crackers, chips, microwavable meals, and packaged cold cuts.
  • Steer clear of processed sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and all artificial sweeteners.
  • Conventional meat, poultry, and dairy is almost certainly always treated with antibiotics and as a consumer you’re exposed to consume MORE antibiotics without realizing it.
  • Dairy causes immune reactions for many people and can be responsible for an imbalance in the gut flora.
  • Avoid food containing GMOs – our bodies are not designed to digest GMOs and the very presence of them can alter the delicate bacterial composition.
  • Soy is difficult to digest and – unless organic – usually a genetically modified crop.Essentially_EssentialGreens

 

The Brand

Essentially is Dubai’s original homegrown one hundred percent organic cold press juice company that serves and delivers cold-pressed juices, super soups, nut milks, cold brews, healthy snacks, and fully plant-based clean food programs to Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Essentially products are available online at www.essentially.ae and at the Ripe Farm Shop, Physique57, Pret A Manger, and Mawasim in Abu Dhabi.