We are a lot in love with Plenish here at Raw Halo HQ. If you haven’t heard of them before, they are the organic, cold-pressed juice cleanse company taking the UK by storm, and with their new range of nut mylks available nationwide in supermarkets, we wanted to let you know why we love them so much.
How did Plenish come to being?
Like so many yummy companies starting out, Plenish was born from personal experience. Founder Kara Rosen set up Plenish after spending years running on empty and constantly falling ill. She wanted to find a nutritional solution to help replenish her body in a practical yet healthy way, and to help her hit the reset button to restore her health and get her energy levels back on track.
She sought inspiration from food, not just any food, but foods with the power to heal. With wonderful ingredients sourced, she created a portfolio of products that she calls ‘health hacks’. Today the company prides itself on offering a product set that is easily integrated into life, tastes delicious, and keeps people running on ‘plenty not empty’ for the duration of their cleanse.
What is cleansing and why is it so good for you?
In a nutshell a cleanse is simply a way to kickstart a detox period and healthy eating plan. There are so many different types of cleanses that you can try, but on a Plenish cleanse you consume only raw, organic green juices. You preempt the cleanse by eliminating certain processed and known inflammatory foods from your diet before your juices arrive. That way the nourishing Plenish juices can work their magic without processed sugars, coffee, alcohol, meat or dairy interrupting your system and setting you back.
How much fruit and veg go into each juice bottle?
When Plenish cold press their ingredients, nearly 1kg of organic produce goes into each little bottle of green juice. This juice is then HPPed (high pressure processed) to maintain all of the raw fruit and veg’s goodness, without removing any of its natural, nutritional benefit. Just think of all those vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients that you will be ingesting to naturally and deliciously detoxify your pathways!
Who should go on a juice cleanse?
A juice cleanse is suitable for just about anyone (within reason). So whether you’re run down, juicing to lose weight, boost your energy or give your digestive system a break, whatever your reason for wanting to kickstart your system again, Plenish have a juice cleanse to suit your needs.
Why is cold pressed juice so much better for you than any other type of juice?
Essentially cold pressed juice is juice that has been pressed or ‘masticated’ out of the fruit and veg as opposed to normal juice extraction. Normal juice extraction creates heat, caused by the spinning blades that are used to extract the juice, thus destroying the nutrients within the foods.
Our final reason for loving them?
Soil, sustainability and their impact on the environment is top of Plenish’s priority list. Their produce is sourced seasonally and organically with all of the pulp from the cold-pressing going back to ‘plenish’ the soil that grew it.