How to Pick a Ripe Cantaloupe
There’s truly nothing worse than the feeling when you blissfully cut into your fresh, new cantaloupe from the grocery store only to find that it is overripe and fermented. Gross, right? Sadly, we’ve been there before (more than once if you count other fruits). So, how do you find a perfectly ripe cantaloupe? Today, we’re going to answer that question with 4 tips on how to choose the best ripe melon out of the bunch: Check the Outside of the Cantaloupe Take a Peek at the Stem End of the Cantaloupe Tap the Cantaloupe Do the Smell Test Before we dive in, we have to go over the amazing health benefits of cantaloupe melons, right? Cantaloupe Health Benefits Not only are fresh cantaloupes deliciously sweet and low in calories, but they also aid in hydration, digestion, decreasing inflammation, and more! Adding more rockmelons (the Australian word for cantaloupe) into your diet will help you shower your body in vitamins and minerals. But how do you find the best cantaloupe in the produce section? Keep reading for our great tips!
How to Start a Juice Business From Home
What do successful juice brands like Suja, Sol-ti, JRINK, and Naked all have in common? They all started in someone’s home kitchen! If you don’t feel ready to take the risk of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars and signing a commercial lease, starting a juice business from home is a great way to start and can get you to a point where you feel comfortable making the investment for a real store front or commercial kitchen. Here are the topics we will cover that will help answer your questions on how to start a juice business at home: Some advice from successful juice entrepreneurs Information on juice recipes for your new home juice business Calculating cost of goods for juice Juicing equipment for your home kitchen Selling juice online Scheduling juice production Juice bottles and packaging Things to consider when offering juice delivery Resources for home juice businesses Note: This Complete Home Juice Business Design & Equipment List is a must-get if you’re starting a new juice business. Plan the layout of your home kitchen to produce more than 100 bottles of cold-pressed juice and nut milk per day. Download it for free!
Cold-Pressed Juice Bar Business Plans: The 4 Basic Models
If you’re looking for a juice bar business plan, you’ve come to the right place. In this article, I’ll go over the four basic business models for a cold-pressed juice bar / business.
9 Must-Read Juicing Books in 2020
One of the great things about juicing is that there are HUNDREDS of useful resources to guide you on your juicing journey. In addition to the plethora of online resources (like our blog), there are handfuls of great books and publications that you can benefit from. Not only are books timeless, but they’re also filled with great recipes, tips, and information that you can go back and reference time and time again. To help you on your juicing journey, we’ve categorized and compiled a list of the best juicing books for you to read this year!
How to Do a Juice Cleanse
Cold-Pressed Juice Bar Equipment List & Kitchen Layout
This article covers some of the most important aspects of starting a juice business. Click a section to skip to it: Juice Bar & Kitchen Layout Infographics Kitchen Flow Juice Bar Equipment List Total Cost of Equipment Using a Commissary Kitchen This article has been updated (originally published September 8th, 2016). How to Design a Commercial Juicing Kitchen Juice Bar and Kitchen Layouts One of the most common questions we get from people starting a juice business is how to set up a kitchen for cold-pressed juice. We decided to put together infographics that show simple setup, equipment lists, and flow diagrams for a cold-pressed juice kitchen and for a juice bar. You can download the free PDFs here:
How to Pick a Ripe Watermelon
Enduring a long quest to find the sweetest, ripe, and overall perfect fruits can be a challenge. Watermelon is the perfect year-round sweet and juicy treat, but how do you pick the best one? To help you avoid awkwardly long pauses in the produce section, today we’re sharing a few tips for selecting the perfectly ripe watermelon. This beautiful fruit is around 92% water, low-calorie, and packed with vitamins including Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Potassium, Magnesium, and more! Not only are you staying hydrated, but you’re showering your body with valuable antioxidants through an increase in lycopene. How do you choose the best watermelon at the grocery store or farmer’s market? Follow these tips to become a watermelon aficionado: Check the Watermelon’s Weight Search for Yellow Spots (Which Are Good!) Give the Watermelon a Smell Test Gently Tap the Outside of the Watermelon Look for the Tail
Juice Bar Regulations: 7 Tips to Help You Navigate the Health Department
Implementing Made-to-Order Pressed Juicing
With the release of the Goodnature M-1, operations are now able to produce a truly high quality pressed juice right in front of the guest when ordered. This will be the next trend in juicing, setting the early adopters apart from the competition.
How to Pick a Ripe Pineapple
Pineapples are truly one of the hardest fruits to figure out. Are they ripe? Too ripe? Or not ripe enough? To pick the perfect ripe pineapple, there are a few things you need to look for.
5 Easy Juicer Recipes That Can Help You Lose Weight
How Juice Companies are Dealing with the Coronavirus Pandemic
We sent out a survey regarding the pandemic to our email list last week and it was completed by over 400 juice businesses. I’ve learned a lot form this data, conversations with entrepreneurs, and the discussion going on at the Goodnature Juicing Facebook Group. I hope that sharing this with you—along with some useful tips—may help your business survive this crazy time and make it out the other side. If you have any other advice for the industry, please comment on this post below or better yet, on the Goodnature Juicing Facebook Group. How the Pandemic Has Affected Juice Businesses It shouldn’t be surprising that most juice bars, restaurants, and other juice companies are reporting a decrease in sales. About 62% report a decrease in sales. 21% report things are about the same. Some juice bars are being forced to shut down by government demand in their local region. The encouraging statistic is that about 17% of juice companies that completed the survey actually report an increase in sales during the pandemic. Out of the business types reporting decreases, restaurants have been hit the worst (80% reporting a decrease in sales) and juice trucks have been hit the least (only 33% reporting a decrease in sales). The business type with greatest number reporting an increase in sales is juice bars – with over 20% reporting an increase in sales. What’s Working Wellness shots / immunity boosters are selling well. Both wholesale brands and retail have reported a spike in shot sales. People are looking to increase their intake of immunity strengthening nutrients. Juice bars are adapting by offering pick up and delivery and finding other creative ways to keep their business going. Uber Eats is waiving their delivery fees for independent restaurants. Some juice bars are offering drive-through orders. Some juice bars have begun shifting to become more like organic markets, offering organic produce, snacks, and other essential items to their customers, which can fill a need when the local grocery stores are out of stock or don’t offer high quality health and wellness products. How to Keep Your Customers Safe It’s important now more than ever to practice good sanitation, and go above and beyond normal operating procedures. Here are some tips: Follow the ServSafe best practices for COVID-19. Use antimicrobial produce wash to clean your fruit and vegetables. This is a very important first step. If you don’t start with clean produce, nothing else matters. Once you’ve cleaned your produce, make sure you’re treating it as if it’s ready-to-eat: handle it with gloves, keep it clean, don’t let it become contaminated. Treat it as if you are serving it right now as food to your customers. When juicing, take extra care not to contaminate the juice. If any staff member is showing symptoms—or has been in contact with anyone with symptoms—keep them away from your business , customers, and other staff members. Make sure you are breaking down and cleaning equipment frequently. The FDA normally recommends every four hours, but do it more frequently to be extra cautious. If you normally do super-deep cleanings of your facilities every week or every month, increase it to every day if you can. Always wear gloves. Wash your hands before putting gloves on. Change gloves often. Now is not the time to cut back on glove costs.