While there is no scientific evidence that proves juicing is healthier than eating whole fruits and vegetables, many people believe that the body absorbs nutrients better when it is in juice form. This is thought to be because the body doesn’t have to waste energy to break down the fruits and vegetables as the juicer has already extracted all of that for you.

Also, you use a much greater quantity of fruits and vegetables to make a juice than you would typically eat at a meal. This means you care getting higher amounts of micronutrients and phytochemicals than if you were eating whole fruits and vegetables. Honestly, most people aren’t fans of choking down huge quantities of celery, carrots, and cucumbers to try to get our daily nutrients. Luckily, juicing helps us get all the nutritional benefits from the fruits and vegetables in a convenient and fast way!

Fresh pressed juice, like the ones on the Alpha Dessert Juice Café menu, have become a popular way to for people to “cleanse” their body of unhealthy toxins. Just search up “juice cleanse” in Google and you will see millions of results appear (my Google showed me 29,000,000 results for juice cleanse)! Many people will say that fresh-pressed juices can grow bacteria. While this is true to an extent, the vast majority of people drink the juice they make or buy within an extremely short time frame, and it is perfectly healthy.

This brings up the question of pasteurization. If it can grow bacteria, why not pasteurize it? At Alpha Dessert Juice Café, there is no need to pasteurize our juices. We fresh press your juice right when you order it. This gives you all the health benefits of fresh squeezed juice without having to worry about how long it has been sitting in a bottle. Plus, we want you to get all the nutrients possible out of your juice, and pasteurization, while it prolongs shelf life, degrades some of the nutrients in the juice. The longer the juice is on the shelf, the more nutrients it loses. You don’t have to worry about any of that when your juice is fresh squeezed right in front of you at Alpha Dessert Juice Café.