Juicing Queens: SHOPS 28 | BOROMAG.COM | JANUARY 2014 Now that we’re at the start of the 2014, the season of resolutions is upon us. Knowing that one of them is often to eat healthier, we thought we’d help you out by showing you a few places where you can get a delicious glass of fresh juice and smoothies! Fresh Start Market This popular natural foods market offers, along with its wide selection of grocery items, a number of freshly prepared foods, including fresh juice. All the fruits and vegetables they use in the juices are 100% organic, so there are no worries about harmful chemicals in your juice. They offer a whole menu of fruit and vegetable combinations that will no doubt appeal to a variety of tastes. Popular juices on the fruit side are the Cowboy, made with blueberry, banana, peach, apple; and the Cowgirl, made with banana, mango, strawberry, acai, and orange juice. On the vegetable side, the Imaginarium is also much beloved, made with ginger, beet, parsley, orange, celery, carrot, and flax seed oil (high in As is the case at most juice bars, the Green Juice omega-3s). is a favorite drink, too. It includes some kale and/or chard, but also green things like apples, Fresh Start’s staff will also make you a juice cucumber, parsley, and celery. They also offer made entirely from green vegetables, as well as wheat grass shots, and more recently they’ve wheatgrass shots. They’ve recently rearranged been preparing ginger-cayenne shots, which the store so you can easily watch them making pack a serious and awesome punch. It’s spicy but your glass of juice! incredibly warming, and the cayenne is good for increasing metabolism. All vegetables and fruits Fresh Start Market, 29-13 23rd Ave, are 100% organic. Astoria, NY 11105, (718) 204-7868, www.fsorganic.com They also have a smoothie menu sporting combinations like a Banana Colada and Berries Go Natural and More. Shakes are also offered, containing Health Food protein powder, maca, and spirutein. In your smoothie, you have a range of milk options, too This popular natural foods store in Sunnyside — whole, skim, almond, and soy. packs a lot in its small space, including an organic juice station behind the counter. They’ll Go Natural Health Food, 45-03 Queens happily make you juices, smoothies, and shakes, Blvd, Sunnyside, NY 11104, either from their menu or a combination you (718) 482-0008 come up with. Fresh carrot juice is a solid choice (also good mixed with apple), but the Vegetable Mix is their most popular juice. It starts with Igloo green vegetables, and you’re free to add any Part diner, part ice cream parlor, and also part other vegetables they have to that. juice bar, Igloo delivers big time on the fresh juice, whether its one of their predetermined combinations of fruits and/or vegetables, or something you come up with on your own. It’s easy to choose one of their combinations, since so many of them are well designed. Carrot figures prominently in a lot of their vegetable juices, which is mixed with everything from the classic apple all the way to more elaborate combinations like carrot, beet, and parsley. Fruit juices feature fresh orange juice as a base, mixed with everything from pineapple to pear. You can also devise your own combinations of fruits and/or vegetables, as per the Juice Bar sign hanging on the wall behind the counter. Popular additions are ginger, protein powder, as well as wheatgrass, which can also be ordered by the shot. A green smoothie, made with vegetables like kale, chard, cucumber, and parsley, is also available and is one of Igloo’s most popular juices. They also make a number of smoothies, either with just ice or with Tasti-D-Lite. Particularly Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Blends Story + Photos meg cotner
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