Why Juice?

There’s no doubt about it. Juicing is one of the easiest ways to make your life a whole lot healthier.

Raw juices are simply freshly pressed fruit and vegetables – carrots, apples, pears or even celery and beetroot - just chopped up and put through a juicer machine to extract all the juice and goodness. That’s it.

While we don't promise instant beauty or eternal life, drink fresh juice regularly and you will probably:

  • Feel full of energy and be revitalised
  • Have smoother, brighter, clearer complexion and a smile to match
  • Find you lose a bit of excess weight
  • Have a healthier, happier lifestyle

So what's so good about fresh juice?

  1. 'Fresh' really means fresh - The real meaning of 'fresh' is extremely important to us. Our juices are all made right there in front of you. No apple, carrot or spinach leaf gets juiced until you give us the nod. Heat-treated, bottled smoothies, however, can sit in a supermarket chiller for over a week!
  2. More energy - Food is fuel. Without the right fuel, the body simply can't run at its best. Fresh juice is packed with all the important bits - vitamins, nutrients and minerals that are vital for all kinds of chemical reactions in the body.
  3. Natural high - Juicing gives us an instant energy hit without the usual suspects of refined sugars and caffeine.
  4. Easy nutrients - Lots of important trace elements, vitamins and minerals are trapped in the fibrous parts of fruit and veg that our bodies love. Juicing releases all those ultra-healthy nutrients so they can be easily absorbed into the bloodstream.
  5. Living enzymes - Enzymes are the all-singing, all-dancing types of 'phytochemicals' that are critical for literally hundreds of chemical reactions taking place in our bodies every day. Raw juices are just-pressed, raw and brimming with these incredible little things. Bottled juices and pre-packaged smoothies, however, aren't so lucky. Pasteurisation, no matter how 'gentle', leaves them devoid of enzymes. Erm, that's why we don't do it.
  6. Easy peasy lemon squeezy - Most of us know we should be eating more fresh fruit and vegetables. It's not rocket science but being healthy can somehow seem like really hard work. Rustling up a mung bean vegetable stew from scratch might be an effort. Drinking a deliciously fruity, just-pressed juice on your way to work isn't.

Our Smoothies

Our smoothies are made to order, that means if you would like to add or take something out, we can make it so it's just as you like it.

The only ingredients we put into our smoothies are fruit, yoghurt and 100% juice. In fact we are quite purist in what we do and each large smoothie in reality has at least 2 portions of fruit and we don’t use ice to bulk out our smoothies. With the exception of our Bananarama (where there is a little ice to cool it down!) –

The fruit we use is snap frozen fresh, so it keeps as much of the nutrients as possible and helps to keep the consistency just right and what you've grown to expect from a Crussh smoothie.

Our frozen yoghurt is made just for us, so you won't find it anywhere else but in our smoothies. If you prefer your smoothie without yoghurt, no problem, our stores also stock sorbet which they can add in replacement.

We use 100% pure orange, apple and pineapple juice and although they are made from concentrate, we understand there is a perception that made from concentrate has some negative connotations when we are providing a healthy product. The degradation in reality is about 50% on the amount of vitamin C when compared to fresh juice, however it is worth bearing in mind that the bulk of the nutritional content also comes from the actual fruit we use for the rest of the smoothie.

We are proud to be able to say we use more fruit in our smoothies than any other juice bar chain we are aware of and by quite a long shot. We've also taken years of experience to get our recipes just right and hope that you enjoy them as much as we enjoy making them!
 
     
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