Flushing Your System: Juicing in Shanghai

Flushing Your System: Juicing in Shanghai
By Sam Elliot , eChinacities.com

Feeling a touch of malaise? When you live in Shanghai it’s all too easy to live on fast food and takeaways as well as coffee, alcohol and cigarettes all of which can lead to the buildup of toxins in the body and excess body weight. Not being one to let Western trends to pass them by, several companies in Shanghai have caught onto the juice cleanse craze. A juice cleanse is a type of fast in which you restrict your diet to raw fruit and vegetable juices. Juice cleanse advocates argue that this facilitates the flushing out of toxins in the body by giving your digestive system a break from breaking down large meals.

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Below are some of Shanghai’s leading providers of juice cleanses:

1) Body Awakening

Run by American nutritionist Jessica Simkin, Body Awakening has variety of juices and dietary supplements on offer which they claim to have all sorts of wonderful properties such as alleviating constipation and aiding digestion, easing muscle cramps as well as promoting sleep, weight loss and stress management. All of their products are designed in-house by certified nutritional practitioners. Their products are listed on their website in American dollars and their dietary supplements range from 20 USD to 39 USD.

Their top product, the Cleansing & Detox Kit, costs 180 USD and is designed to promote weight loss, raise energy levels, alleviate digestive problems and give clear, healthy skin.

Body Awakening has a strong commitment to the environment and all of their cardboard packaging is made from recycled material. In addition to this, they bottle their products in high quality glass whenever possible. They maintain that this has the additional benefit of being free of the chemical toxins that exist in plastics, citing research that shows that this can interfere with male and female hormone levels.

Although they are based in Hong Kong, Body Awakening does deliver free to Mainland China. Orders are shipped by express Airmail and usually take 5 working days.

Add: 1003, 43-55 Wyndham Street, Central, Hong Kong.
Tel: +852 8192 7636
Website: http://www.body-awakening.net/shop/

2) Juicycle View In Map

Started by two Chinese students who had been away studying in America, Juicycle is a quaint little cafe in Jing’An that serves a variety of juices such as green apple, coconut water and blends such as organic cucumber, lemon and mint. These range from 20 RMB to 40 RMB. All of their juices are squeezed on-site and have no added sugar or water. They also try to source as many ingredients as possible from local organic farms.

Like many other health conscious cafes in Shanghai, Juicycle have designed their own juice cleanse, a three-day program that costs 900 RMB and consists of 24 fruit and vegetable concoctions.

Add.: 36 Nanyang Lu, near Xikang Lu, Jingan District, Shanghai
地址:上海市静安区南阳路36号, 近西康路
Opening Hours: 08:30-19:30
Tel: 6253 9593

3) VCleanseView In Map

Said to be the first juice cleanse company in Shanghai, VCleanse distinguish themselves by using the ‘cold-press’ method of making juice which uses high pressure to extract juice so that the fruit’s temperature remains cold. This ensures that there is a minimum of heat and mixing of air with juices preserving its natural flavors, as well as the life-giving enzymes and nutrients. This is said to be a much more efficient process than conventional centrifugal juicers which spins fruit at high speeds, exposing the juice to greater heat and oxygen. VCleanse claim that their method extracts up to 100% more juice and is modeled on the same technology used by leading alternative cancer treatment centers who prescribe nutritious juice to patients.

VCleanse’s juice cleanse is a three day regime,costs 450 RMB and is delivered directly to your door every day.

Add: Room 312, 570 Yongjia Lu near Yueyang Lu, Xuhui District, Shanghai
地址:上海市徐汇区永嘉路570号312室
Tel: 4001 842 779
Opening Hours: Weekdays 08:00 – 20:00; Weekends 10:00 – 20:00
Website: http://www.vcleanse.com/

4) Farmhouse Juice

Farmhouse Juice used to operate out of a pop-up window store beside the Avocado Lady shop on Wulumuqi Lu until their acrimonious break up in 2013 but it lives on through its website which stocks the same old juice that they were known and loved for.

In order to address some concerns about the safety of juice cleanses, Farmhouse Juice stresses the nutritional benefits of its drinks, emphasizing how its ‘live’ juice cleanse both removes toxins and possesses strong therapeutic effects by supplying the body with all the essential vitamins, minerals and enzymes that it needs in a way that is for it to process and absorb.

Farmhouse have a variety of juice cleanses on offer that range from a 1 day (204 RMB) that aims to add a ‘spark’ to your system to a somewhat daunting 15 day program (3,060 RMB) that purports to ‘fight off degenerative diseases’. 

Their individual bottles of juice range from 34-45 RMB each and have some rather memorable names. They include the ‘Green Elixir’, a mixture of kale, spinach, romaine, parsley, celery, cucumber, apple, ginger and lemon and the ‘Internal Fix’, a blend of pineapple, apple and mint.

Website: http://www.farmhousejuice.com/

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Keywords: Juicing Shanghai Healthy Detox

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RobertZimmerman

Yeah you gotta stay on top of your nutrition here. Get yourself a blinder and go at it. Remember to juice your vegetables and eat your fruits.

Sep 29, 2014 13:40 Report Abuse

Nessquick

juice the fruit and eat the vegetable, wouldn't you just say ?

Sep 29, 2014 15:30 Report Abuse

RobertZimmerman

No I wouldn't say that. Read somewhere that juicing fruits looses some of its nutrition but hey I have been known to mix up some strawberries and bananas into a smoothie.

Sep 30, 2014 12:00 Report Abuse