While providing healthy catering at festivals, people often ask about the health benefits of juicing. Juicing is a great way to support your immune system, improve digestion and help with losing weight.

Immune System Benefits

Fresh pressed juice energizes the body and helps cleanse the body of toxins. Fresh pressed juice builds up the immune system and can slow the aging process. Vegetable and leafy green based juices provide unbeatable nutrition. When making fresh pressed juice at home no list of ingredients is required. Juice is easy to drink and it tastes great.

Juicing fruit and vegetables provides a fast way to absorb nutrients, leaving energy reserves for deeper cleansing, repairing and healing cells. Fresh pressed juice contains specific vitamins and minerals that are natural and easy to absorb. Fresh pressed juices also contain phytochemicals – a substance linked to good health and is only found in plants, fruits and vegetables. They are a good source of non-meat Protein especially smoothies with seeds, wheat germ or whole grains.

Juicing Benefits Digestion

The body quickly absorbs juice. Juice requires less digestive work so saves your body energy and helps maintain your supply of digestive enzymes. Fresh pressed juice contains healthy sugars that are simple and unrefined. Fresh pressed juice is a complete package – natural sugars, enzymes, nutrients, vitamins.

Juicing Benefits weight loss

Juicing helps to mobilise fat and encourage fat to exit the body via the main route of elimination – the bowels. Juice is a superb detoxifier, excellent for a healthy liver and digestive tract, aids kidney function and helps kill bacteria. Drinking fresh pressed juice daily will lower blood cholesterol and stimulate fat cells. It will also sustain blood sugars, reduce cravings and boost energy.

Juicing Benefits Disease Prevention

A significant health benefit is using juicing for disease prevention. Fresh pressed juice contains enzymes, vital for health and well-being. Enzymes help us breakdown food and spark the essential chemical reactions we need to live including food digestion, stimulating the brain, cellular energy and tissue repair. Enzymes are only found in RAW food.

Juicing Benefits Detoxification

Not only does juicing provide us with that all essential, quick off the mark boost, but it supplies us with a wealth of crucial nutrients & eliminates harmful toxins. A fantastic way to Detox and feel great!

What is it that makes fresh pressed juice the answer for increased and sustainable energy levels? The secret is in its ‘living’ component. Raw fruit & veg are packed with ‘living’ enzymes that assist with digestion. If digestive enzymes are being replenished by these additional enzymes, the body will spend less energy on digestion and have more energy for repairing cells. Unfortunately, bottled and canned fresh juices don’t contain this living constituent due to the pasteurisation process. Pasteurisation kills these enzymes, this means less expendable energy.

Not only does juicing maintain this ‘living’ element, but it extracts the vital minerals and makes them easier for the body to absorb. This means the full health package: vitamins; minerals; natural sugars; and enzymes, in an easy to soak up form. Juiced fruit & veg takes a mere 15 minutes to digest, so the energy boost is almost instantaneous.

That’s energy on tap!

If you are planning an event, party, festival or retreat, consider hiring a mobile juice bar like Passion 4 Juice. While the summer calendar is filling up fast, there are still some time – get in touch with Trish at trish@passion4juice.com Trish Tucker-May is an expert in nutrition and healthy catering at events.

Another significant benefit of juicing is all the leftover pulp. This is a natural by-product of juicing. The juice contains concentrated amounts of nutrients; the pulp retains the fibre and a substantial amount of the nutrients as well.

Put it into cakes and slices – re-use pineapple and apple pulp in our home made cakes or fruit slice.
Pulp is great for garden compost – except citrus.
Put pulp to worm and pig farms – they both love it!
In the winter it is great in porridge – especially apple as it gives a great flavour and excellent amount of fibre
Concerned about extra fibre, add a teaspoon of the fibre to your juice – stir it in and sip away!
Also put left over grated carrot fibre into the evening meal – kids won’t notice ad it is very good for them.
Pulp is great in frozen desserts, soups, sauces, casseroles, vegetable stock, dressings, baked goods, salads and many other dishes. Pulp can be stored in the fridge if used within a day. Otherwise freeze in 2 cup quantities for later use.

Get juicing today. With benefits to health, energy, immune system, weight loss and detoxification it is easy to see why juicing is becoming a popular way to flood the body with nutrient dense, delicious tasting fresh pressed fruit and vegetables.

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If you are new to juicing check out our recipe book available in our shop http://www.passion4juice.com/shop

Do you struggle with finding healthy food at festivals?

Are you a family who struggles with the cost of food at festivals? How do you like the sound of FREE stuff at your favourite festival? Passion 4 Juice understands how expensive it is to feed a family at a festival. Our life is festivals and events and we are always travelling with our kids. At Glastonbury Festival this year we hope we can help solve some of the problems facing people on special diets, limited budget and travelling with kids.

What can you get for FREE at Passion 4 Juice – healthy festival catering?

To help families at Glastonbury Festival Passion 4 Juice offer Free fruit for kids, free cups of tea with waffles and free water bottle refills. There is also the opportunity to recharge for phone for free if you are a regular customer.

To help those on special diets, there are vegan, raw, dairy free, gluten free, paleo and nut free options. Talk to the staff about your concerns of known allergens.

There is a voucher available that offers the chance for you to shout your mate a free juice. You can download this and present it to a helpful member of staff who will be happy to look after.

If you like our Facebook page www.facebook.com/passion4juice you will get a FREE energy shot. That will keep you dancing longer or cure a big hangover.

Passion 4 Juice staff are experts in nutrition.

If you are struggling with a hangover, headache, PMT, constipation, funny tummy, lost voice, sore throat or aching feet, the staff will be happy to assist with nutritionally dense real food remedies to save the day.

So if it is taste sensations, energy and nutrition you are looking for, seek out Passion 4 Juice in Silver Hayes and near the John Peel Stage. You will be served fresh, raw, cold pressed and made to order. We do it the hard way – fruit and veg, prepared before your very eyes. Open 24hrs so that people can get a juice when they need it most, before the hangover kicks on.

Passion 4 Juice is organic healthy catering.

We have 16 years’ experience on the festival circuit in the UK and Australia. People come to us for rehydration, nutrients and energy. We have often been told we are the best juice bar on the circuit and have punters across festival sites in the mud to come to us. We are niche, and are top quality. Years of training in nutrition means we are able to help people who come to us with headaches, constipation, dehydration and fatigue. We are there to provide hugs and laughs. We are also trained in clowning and physical theatre, The juice bar becomes the theatre. Last year we were given flowers by a customer because every morning we made her laugh.

So if you are looking for FREE stuff at Glastonbury – like a cup of tea, a hug, somewhere to charge your phone, an energy shot, or free fruit for your kids, come and say hi.

Current Juicing Trends – Juicing is not just for the pretty ladies.
Over the last seventeen years of making juice at festivals in the UK and Australia, there has been a significant shift in juicing trends. In the late 90’s when Passion 4 Juice was founded at festivals in Australia the most common customers were health conscious young women. When Passion 4 Juice expanded and started juicing at music festivals in the UK, the trend was similar.

Juicing at a wide range of festivals, steam rallies and sporting events presented a similar experience. It was common for middle aged guys to approach the award winning colourful juice bars, look slightly confused and ask ‘what is it?’ Upon discovering it was a juice bar serving organic veggie juice sensations many would run for cover at the nearest beer tent or bravely ask for an orange juice.

Times certainly have changed. With the help of films like Joe Cross’s “Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead”, Jason Vale’s “Super Juice Me” and the success of the Natural Juice Junkie, now we see men of all ages getting into the juicing way of life. It is common to see middle aged men confidently order the ‘Detox Special’ with organic beetroot, celery, carrot, apple and ginger.

At Bestival, The Radio One Festival recently held on the Isle of Wight, a regular Passion 4 Juice customer said he missed his juice fix at Boomtown Fair. His name is Max. He was gutted that Passion 4 Juice took a year off Boomtown. He lives Passion4juice! Like the man says, re-hydration, nutrients, no Chewing required. Max partied hard at Bestival and he swears that passion 4 Juice saves him at all his favourite festivals. It seems that the juice movement is not just for the pretty girls.

What is your favourite festival? Passion 4 Juice can be found at regular festivals in the UK including Glastonbury, Womad, Fieldview, Barn on the Farm, Purbeck Valley Folk Festival, End of the Road and Bestival. If you would like to see this award winning juice business at more festivals then get in touch. via social media. Connect on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram.

How to make a dairy free, a healthy chocolate milkshake the whole family will love – dairy free, sugar free.

Adding extra goodness to your smoothies and juice is easy and very worthwhile for added health benefits. Here is an extensive list of power supplements that are natural, whole foods. I use a range of extracts and concentrated herbs, tinctures and ground foods to boost the immune system and increase energy.

Start with 1 tbsp. Cacao, 1 litre of water, a few cubes of ice and 1 banana. This is the basis for a great milkshake. It depends on who is drinking this. If you are trying to get more veg into your kids add a handful of spinach – more than likely they won’t even notice. Cacao is an unprocessed ground chocolate powder. It is full of flavonoids, which act as natural antioxidants. Antioxidants protect the body from ageing and disease caused by free radicals. Cacao has also been found to help regulate blood pressure and reduce cholesterol while building the immune system. It is also rich in magnesium, an energy mineral and vital electrolyte. Cacao is rich in minerals and lowers cholesterol.

If you are a pre or post-menopausal busy mum add some Maca. It is the ultimate root, high in protein, amino acids, vitamins and minerals. Maca is known to increase libido, fertility, general energy and stamina. It is said to have powerful aphrodisiac effects for both men and women. It can also be used as a natural hormone balancer for women and can be used to reduce insomnia and acne for both sexes. It is a natural balancer both inside and out.

If you are a busy person that needs more energy, especially if exercising really hard, Chia Seeds are among the healthiest foods on the planet. They are loaded with nutrients that can have important benefits for your body and brain. They are packed With Antioxidants, this should increase fullness, slow absorption of your food and help you eat fewer calories. Plus they contain a decent amount of protein. They also contain a good balance of essential amino acids. Chia Seeds are packed with anti-oxidants fuels the body and mind. If you find these too expensive, Linseeds or flax seeds are just as good and are grown here in the UK – so they are cheaper and local. Grind them up first before adding them.

A good all round addition for the entire family is organic hemp seeds. They are a great source of easily digested protein and a good alternative to soy. Hemp seeds contain all 10 essential amino acids. Packed with both omega-6 fat which is called GLA (gamma linolenic acid). GLA is a great anti-inflammatory, it fights against the symptoms of PMS, Hair loss, bad skin, This can be helpful to anyone with an inflammatory conditions: asthma, MS, fibromyalgia and arthritis. Plus it lowers cholesterol! Organic Hemp seeds are protein rich and a great all-rounder.

If you are working out and sweeting a lot, himalayan rock salt is a natural salt, it is harvested in mountains in Pakistan and is prized for its nutritional content and the fact that it is unprocessed. It also contains 60 to 65 trace minerals and can help keep your blood pressure in check as well as aiding in cardiovascular function.

If you are like me and want abundant energy, are busy and trying to jam a lot into your day then throw the lot in. Post lunch it is a fantastic way to stay energised, vibrant and buzzing for the entire day.