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Thanks to their many vitamins and rich nutrients, pressed juices are considered extremely healthy. In this blog, we want to explain to you what juicing options are available, what you need to look out for and why these vitamin bombs are rarely produced regularly and, above all, permanently in the home kitchen.

Space and time problems when juicing

Although pressed juices are extremely tasty and healthy, only a few households still regularly prepare the drinks themselves. There are several reasons for this. On the one hand, many different types of fruit and vegetables are required. On the other hand, the time factor also plays a role here.

Not everyone who enjoys the drinks has the space to squeeze two glasses of orange juice for themselves and their partner, for example. In addition, not everyone who works or studies full-time has time to prepare juice every morning. Juicing should also be learned. After all, not all juices are the same.

There are two options for home-pressed juice from the home kitchen: the centrifugal juicer and the slow juicer. Due to the high number of revolutions, many nutrients are lost during juicing in variant 1 due to the heat generated by the centrifuge. Slow juicers, on the other hand, grind the fruit and vegetables more slowly without generating heat. This is a much gentler way of juicing and preserves all the nutrients.

In both cases, however, the juice can only be kept for two to three days. Thanks to our special high-pressure process we obtain LiveFresh all the nutrients. However, you can enjoy our vitamin-rich drinks for at least 6 weeks without any loss of quality or taste.

Product quality is the be-all and end-all

However, the most important thing when juicing yourself is and remains the quality of the fruit or vegetables and the know-how of which varieties are actually suitable. For example, we source our fruit from the best growing regions for each fruit and know all of our suppliers personally. We therefore also recommend that you buy your products from the (organic) store around the corner or your trusted market trader.

Fruit and vegetables in particular, which have a high liquid content, provide an ideal basis for juicing. Examples include citrus fruits, apples, carrots and celery stalks.

If you follow the tips mentioned above, you will be able to enjoy extremely tasty juices in the future. However, if this is too much for you and you're looking for a solution to your space and time problems, you've come to the right place. Open the fridge - take out the small bottle - and you can enjoy a cold-pressed juice from LiveFresh enjoy. Click here to go to the online store.

Anyone who has ever bought bananas will be familiar with this phenomenon: some of them start out green and unripe, but within a few days they can develop into sweet and tasty sources of energy. But what is the reason for this change? And does a change in appearance also mean a fundamental variation in the ingredients? You can find out this and more in this edition of the LiveFresh blog.

The maturing process

During the ripening process of fruit, the composition of the ingredients changes depending on the degree of ripeness. While unripe fruit still contains a lot of starch and gradually breaks down, the proportion of sugars such as glucose (grape sugar) and fructose increases as the ripening process progresses. In addition, the breakdown of tannins during the ripening process makes fruit tastier as it becomes sweeter.

In addition, secondary plant substances are formed towards the end of the ripening process, which leads to changes in the color of the fruit. The vitamin content is highest in ripe fruit and fiber changes during the ripening process, making the fruit softer and therefore more pleasant to eat.

Ethylene - plant hormone with great influence

A basic distinction can be made between two groups of fruit: post-ripening and non-post-ripening fruit. The type of fruit depends on the plant hormone ethylene. This organic compound is produced by post-ripening fruit, which influences its own ripening and ageing processes. However, as ethylene is also released from the fruit into the environment, this also has an effect on other nearby plants. This can also influence the development of non-ripening fruit, for example.

The riper the fruit, the healthier it is

Fruit that does not ripen should only be harvested when it is actually ripe on the plant. Otherwise, this not only has a negative impact on the taste, but also on the fruit's ingredients.

Colorful fruit bowls are beautiful - but not always recommended

As mentioned above, over-ripening fruit can affect the quality of non-over-ripening fruit. Care should therefore be taken when storing fruit together. Apples or bananas, for example, can be real fruit spoilers due to their strong secretion of ethylene and can accelerate the ripening process or trigger wilting processes in both non-ripening fruit and specimens of their own species.

However, this effect can also be put to good use. Apples, for example, can accelerate the ripening process if they are added to unripe fruit varieties, turning sour produce into juicy fruit.

Conclusion: If you do not want to deliberately trigger a ripening process in your fruit bowl at home, you should not store overripe fruit together with unripe fruit.

It is becoming increasingly popular and is now the most widely cultivated citrus fruit in the world: the orange. The fruit, which originates from Asia, not only tastes delicious, but is also an important source of nutrients for the human body. Here we explain why not only the fruit itself, but above all the squeezed juice is particularly healthy and why you should regularly reach for our liquid gold in the upcoming winter season.

The orange and its vitamin C

Winter is just around the corner: in addition to the icy cold, darkness on the way to work and on the way home, illnesses and stubborn colds are the main things that get us down. We have no cure for the cold and darkness. However, we can do our bit to protect ourselves against viruses and other pathogens.

Vitamin C - the nutrient supplier par excellence

Vitamin C is an indispensable source of nutrients for strengthening the immune system and shortening illnesses. Hardly any other fruit contains so
many vitamins and health-promoting substances as the orange. As the human organism is not able to produce ascorbic acid - the scientific name for vitamin C - itself, we must obtain all the vitamin C we need from our diet. According to the German Nutrition Society, we should consume around 100 milligrams of vitamin C per day - this corresponds to one to two oranges, 1 bottle of LiveFresh orange or 1 bottle of LiveFresh Orange meets guarana. Our juice is therefore a perfect vitamin base for the day at breakfast, but it also serves as a tasty source of energy and a vitamin-rich kick in between meals.

Study confirms: Orange juice is healthier than orange

According to a 2016 study by the University of Hohenheim, those who prefer squeezed orange juice to the citrus fruit itself help their body even more, as vitamins and nutrients can be better absorbed from the drink. In addition to the aforementioned vitamin C, it is primarily carotenoids that can be absorbed in much greater quantities through the juice. Carotenoids are secondary plant substances that are not only beneficial to health, but also form the precursor of vitamin A and a protective shield against radicals. The fact that the intake of carotenoids in oranges is significantly lower is due to the indigestible fiber, which is found in higher quantities in the fruit itself than in the juice.

Cold-pressed instead of highly heated

The study has therefore shown that pasteurized or cold-pressed orange juice is more valuable for the human body than the orange itself. However, what is not mentioned:
Vitamin C is sensitive to heat. As almost all conventional orange juice undergoes the pasteurization process, valuable vitamins and nutrients as well as bacteria are destroyed. But not with LiveFreshThanks to the special production process our juices are cold-pressed and never heated. As a result, we retain all the important vitamins and nutrients in the pressed juice for several weeks and combine them with the higher number of carotenoids in our bottles than in oranges.

In order to stay as healthy and vital as possible through the coming winter, we recommend that you always reach for orange products. In what form is ultimately up to you. Our little vitamin bombs are certainly a perfect solution for everyday life.

People who consistently do without meat and dairy products are very interested in the fact that food is correct. Is it even possible to find your way around the daily supermarket jungle? The big problem is that not all ingredients have to be declared in the food industry.

Why is that and especially why do certain ingredients don't have to be declared?

First of all, two terms have to be distinguished: ingredients are substances that are actually included in the product. Processing aid substances are substances that are mixed in the processing process but are no longer included in the end product. Therefore, according to the legislator, they do not have to be explicitly mentioned on the packaging. A popular processing aid for juices is gelatin. Gelatin is a substance that is produced from animal proteins, which is mainly obtained from pigs and cattle. Gelatin does not have to be mentioned on the label, since it is no longer measurable in the end product.

Why is gelatin used in the beverage industry?

With the help of gelatin it is possible to clarify cloudy juices, such as the crystal -clear apple juices from the supermarket. In cold -pressed juices, the cloudy in the juice and the setting are to be understood as a quality feature. Gelatin is most common in apple juice. However, there are people who do not consume a gelatin in principle and thus consider it important to be informed about it. Vegans and Muslims would not buy the product, if declared correct. Therefore, we are firmly convinced that it is important for many consumers to declare processing aid. In our juice manufacturer we never use processing aid substances. That is the first principle in our philosophy. In the near future we will therefore equip our cold-pressed juices with the V-label (vegan label).

What is Velcorin and why is drinks added?

Not only gelatin is often used in the beverage industry as a processing aid, but also Velcorin. Velcorin is a highly poisonous and popular chemical disinfectant in the beverage industry. It is mainly used to kill germs. After a few days, the poison evaporates. According to research, residues are harmless. Not all use this fabric to keep your drinks super sterile. According to our research, we were very surprised at the prevailing declaration policy and believe that everyone who uses such substances should also declare them.

LiveFresh loves cold -pressed juices.

We claim that at least 90% of all juices on the market that are durable for longer are heated at high temperatures and then moved with artificial additives. At LiveFresh we consistently do without additives & heat. We only use the natural fruit so that the taste of ourscold -pressed juices can vary something depending on the season and origin. We see this feature as a clear quality feature, which it should be in today's diversity of dishonest products.

Cold -pressed juices are 100% vegan and never heated.