#FITGIRLCODE testing: Uzuma Green Juices
It’s not always easy to get your daily dose of fruits en veggies into your system. Especially not when you’re really busy and don’t have time to think ahead and do some food prepping. Last week Aranka and I had a real busy week with a lot of deadlines, social activities, workouts, boyfriends, cleaning etc. So to us it was the perfect timing to try the Uzuma Green Juices.
The Fit Program
Uzuma produces juices in which veggies form the basis. A lot of veggies, combined with fruit. Nothing is added to the juices. No fragrance, colours or flavours. Absolutely nothing! Uzuma uses an innovative slow juice process. Therefore you benefit from 100% pure force of nature. Reading this we got really enthusiastic to start the Fit Program. Uzuma offers different kinds of programs, but this program only required me to drink two juices a day. You don’t have to replace any meals by juice, just eat what you normally eat, drink two juices a day and enough water (2 liter) to keep all the vitamins flowing trough your body.
So many veggies in a tiny bottle
Uzuma recommends to drink your first bottle in the morning at 10 pm and your second bottle at 2 am. Before we popped open our first bottle we checked what the exact content of the bottle was. For example, the Uzuma Zen Juice contains: 1 1/5 apple, 4 cm cucumber, 20 grams fennel, 1/8 avocado, 12 leaves of spinach, 3 Chinese cabbage leaves, 1 kale leaf, ¼ broccoli stalk (stem and flowers), 1 dash lemon juice, a little ginger. OMG, how do so many veggies even fit into such a tiny bottle? Apparently one bottle equals 1kg vegetables. Wauw! When you drink the juices you definitely taste a LOT of veggies. I have to admit we liked the one better than the other. But it didn’t really matter to us. The fact that you instantly fill up your body with so many vitamins and minerals gave us a real good feeling. Aranka and I agreed unanimously: our favourite juice was Uzuma Rise. Which among other things contains pineapple, apple and carrot. I think we liked this juice the best because it contains the most fruit. When I make a smoothie myself I sometimes add some spinach but I wasn’t a real expert yet in the green smoothie department. I think you just have to get used to the veggie taste because drinking green juice has so many health benefits.
More energy troughout the day
Drinking two Uzama juices a day definitely made us feel more energized. Normally, around 10/11 in the morning, after you have had breakfast, you start to think about lunch. This is the perfect timing to drink your first juice. After drinking it you’ll easily sit it out until lunchtime. The same goes for the second juice. To be honest, most of the days we didn’t drink this juice at 2 pm. At this time we still felt satisfied enough with what ate during lunch. Most of the time we postponed drinking our second juice until 3/4 pm. Most people experience the well-known afternoon dip at this hour of the day. After finishing another bottle of Uzuma we were ready to finish some more work before the end of the day.
