In the trend of healthy lifestyle, the cold-pressed juice is advertised as the name of healthy drink. The cold-pressed juice squeezed a decent a mount of fruits and vegetables in the bottle, and it costs three to five times price higher than the regular juice. The question is, “Does cold-pressed juice really worth its price or it has been over advertised?” In the studies, there are several researches and news are commenting about the values about the cold pressed-juice, and why it worth the price.
The null hypothesis is that the cold-pressed juice does not worth its price and is not as good as what had been advertised.
Firstly, what the cold-pressed juice is? in more scientific explanation. “HPP” works by providing high cold pressure (not heat) to a bottle, squeezing juice in fresh way and containing the neutral nutrition, and the processes are known as “cold pressed” for those juice. The raw juice are placed into a bottle and sealed once it is squeezed by high pressure. The valid date for cold-pressed juices are not as long as the regular one, and it must be refrigerated in cool.
Why does it cost so much than the regular juice? The one reason is that the amount of fruits that actually squeezed in the bottle is way more than regular juice. For instance, the BluePrint’s Green juice, in every 16-ounce bottle they squeezed around six pounds of fruits. There are around one to two pounds of fresh fruits and vegetables are contained in Starbucks’ Evolution juice, in their 15.2-ounce bottles. And three to six pounds per 16-ounce bottle are squeezed in LA-based Neighborhood Press contains. The amount of produce is decent and a lot.
There is a more specific example about how much fruits in the bottle. “Tropicana orange juice contains juice with 16 oranges in a 59-ounce container, which comes out to about four oranges per 16 ounces. If an average orange weighs around seven ounces, that’s roughly 1.75 pounds of oranges in a 16-ounce serving of Tropicana orange juice.” The point of the fact is that the cold-pressed juice contains a lot more fruits than the regular juice. And in this case, the advertisement of cold-pressed juice is more focused on how many pounds of “real” fruits are in each bottle, and the regular juice has not even a competitive advantage on that, because its not their selling point.
However, the cold-pressed juices can replace the traditional fruits and vegetables in daily. Because once the fruit is juices, then the much of its fiber will be destroyed. “In addition, the calories and sugar of cold-pressed fruit juices can quickly skyrocket if too much is consumed.” By pay the higher price than the regular juice, the cold-pressed juice still can not replace the whole fruits and the vegetables in diet.
It’s more like a observational experiment, to compare the actual fruits in every ounce of the bottle. The further study can be more experimental, like analyze the actual fiber or actual vitamins in cold-pressed juice and regular juice. Or even the experiment of randomly select 100 people for drinking different types of juice, and compare their status of health in body can be conducted, to give more convincing evidences.
There are pros and cons about the cold-pressed juice, and based on the ratio of the fruits squeezed in the bottle and the price-tag, the cold-pressed juice is not over-priced. We reject the null hypothesis, because its price is still in reasonable range comparing to its produce. However, whoever wants to live in a “green” life has to afford the higher price for that. In general, next time when one is asking you why your cold-pressed juice costs so much than the regular juice, remember to tell him how what went into your bottle — “up to six pounds of produce and thousands of pounds of pressure.”
http://dailyburn.com/life/health/the-truth-about-hpp-juice-labels/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/07/cold-pressed-juice_n_4911492.html
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/eat-run/2014/08/08/cold-pressed-juice-is-it-worth-the-hype
I feel like most people think of “fresh” as being healthier. Fresh juice is usually really expensive though. I think having a blender and making your own drinks is definitely worth it and it’s fun! Another angle to look at is the less known, less respected, vegetable juice. Vegetable juice is also very healthy and good because most people skip the suggested vegetable intake per day. This also can get picky so you could combine fruit and vegetables in the blender to get a really healthy drink! http://www.healthguidance.org/entry/9959/1/Fruit-Juice-Vs-Vegetable-Juice.html
Cold pressed juices have recently been booming in restaurants and smoothie bars abroad. What makes it desirable is its highly nutritious content. Even with this in mind, I never truly appreciated its price tag… That being up until now. With up to six pounds of top-shelf produce, that tag now now resembles that of pure livelihood. If you enjoy living within your means and have a working kitchen I highly recommend making these juices at home. You could save some major bucks! http://www.crazyvegankitchen.com/cold-pressed-rainbow-juices/ “The juices extracted from fresh-raw vegetables and fruits are the means by which we can furnish all the cells and tissues of the body with the elements and nutritional enzymes they need in the manner they can be most readily digested and assimilated.”