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Who is Norman Walker?

Norman Walker is a British businessman who was a pioneer in the field of juicing. While he may not have created juicing himself (which has roots as far back as 150 BC), he did take a look at the juicers of the time and realized that they weren’t quite right. Norman Walker Bio Norman Walker, d.SC, Ph.D, was born in Genoa, Liguria, Italy in January 1886. After having a breakdown as a young man, he observed the women in the kitchen of a peasant house peeling carrots, taking notice of the moisture on the underside of the peel. He decided to try grinding them and thus his first cup of carrot juice was born. When he became ill as a young man, he decided to begin drinking fresh fruit and vegetable juices in order to cure himself, which proved to be successful and thus his fascination was born. Later on in his life, he moved to Long Beach, California where he teamed up with a doctor and opened a juice bar, offering home delivery. By 1930, the two created dozens of fresh juice recipes for specific conditions, such as colon cleansing. With this success, he created his own juicer, the Norwalk. It had two parts, the first being a grinder to slowly grind the vegetables and the second being a press to extract the juice. One problem though: the San Francisco health department banned unpasteurized vegetable juices. That didn’t stop Norman. Instead, he moved to Anaheim where he kept his plant open despite the steel shortage during World War I. Eventually, he sold his share of his factory and began his own health publication. When he moved to Arizona, where he passed away, he devoted himself to writing. Thanks to his diet of fruits and vegetables, rumors swirled that he was as old as 119 when he died. His real age upon death was 99 (according to his grave marker and the US Social Security Death Index). Dr. Norman Walker’s Views Raw Foods Norman Walker believed that all cooked or baked goods were “dead” and therefore unhealthy. He also was a strict vegan who was against the idea of eating meat, dairy, or dairy products (although some of his recipes included dairy and eggs). The raw foods diet also meant no bread, pasta, rice, or refined sugar. Walker believed that juicing was the way to get maximum benefits from raw fruits and vegetables. Solid foods require hours of digestion, whereas pulp-free juices go directly into your bloodstream, the nutrients soaking in within 15-minutes of consumption. Colon Health Walker found that your colon was an indicator of your health. He felt that raw vegetable salads, fresh fruits, legumes, and unprocessed grains, along with plenty of distilled water, would keep your colon nice and healthy. Drink Pure Water We all know that the body is dependent on clean water in order to survive. When water is not distilled, the minerals, parasites, and bacteria in the water sticks around and cannot be utilized by your body. Regular Exercise Exercise is another thing that we all know that the human body needs to function properly. In Walker’s program, he felt that walking is the best possible exercise. Not only does it help burn calories, but it also helps tone muscles, helps weight control, relieves stress, and improves your mood. It has also been found to help deter cancer. Emotional Health Your spiritual and emotional health are also incredibly important. Stress, anger, and other negative emotions can affect your physical health. Walker believed in happiness, optimism, and laughter as some of the best ways to prevent serious health issues.

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Introducing the Goodnature World Juicing Championship

The WJC has been developed to help encourage creativity in the juicing world and show the food and beverage industry that juicing can be exciting and fun.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.”

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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.

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Chef Gary LaMorte making aguachile with the goodnature X-1 Mini juicer.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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