Quick Juice Tip

I was in my local supermarket and saw this new kind of juice on sale: Kagome. Three brilliant colors beamed through squarish-plastic bottles: red, purple, and orange. Looking closer, I saw it was vegetable juice, mixed and ready to go. On the expensive side at $5 per 30 oz., but it was on sale 2 for 1, so I got a couple. 

The red (called Autumn Reds) is a mix of tomato, red bell pepper, beet spinach, parsley, lettuce, cabbage, apple, grape, grapefruit, and lemon juices. Just like my old juicing days! It tastes great, is good on the blood sugar (for you hypoglycemics and diabetics), and aligns with the food combining table perfectly. Great stuff!

Turns out the company, Kagome, bases their blends on color. I'm not sure of the depths there, but it sure seems to work. I've been drinking the stuff for a month now (about 8 bottles so far), and it has been consistant quality, great tasting, and all-around keen.

A bit of behind-the-scenes discovery: my girlfriend & I went to a Japanese market here in Portland (there is a really big one in Beaverton), and what did we see? A whole line of Kagome drinks, only in Japanese! I suspect the home company is in Japan and has probably been making these kinds of juices for a long while. They seem to be new on the American market, however. I'm glad they are here.

I looked into buying from the cmpany direct, to see if I could get the colors not carried at my local market (white, for one), but no dice. They don't sell to individuals. Maybe if we got a dozen people together and offered to buy five or six cases, we could get a deal and the different flavors. Which reminds me of a friend I had back in San Luis Obispo that would order Tim's Cascade potato chips by the case (before they had good distribution down there), and we could all 'chip in' (har har) for whatever we wanted. Ah, it was a good day when the five-foot high box would arrive via UPS, and we'd all show up and pick up our ten or so bags of those delicious chips. Thanks, Joe!