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What is certified organic?
What about the enzymes?
Why plastic bottles instead of glass?
Why not one big bottle instead of seven little ones?
Why hydroponic instead of in soil? Are your juices certified organic? To be certified organic you must meet all the requirements of a government approved organic certifying body – such as OneCert. However, each country has its own certifying bodies and they have different requirements. This means that it is impossible for a product to satisfy the requirements for all the countries in which it sells its products.
At VEGUS, we start with certified organic seeds. All our products are grown and bottled absolutely with:
NO genetically modified material
NO unnatural chemical fertilizers
NO hidden additives
ONLY certified organic fertilizer
ONLY safe gentle natural cleaning agents for the equipment
LOTS of love and care
This means that your juices have been produced all the way from seeds to whole, raw juice in a bottle strictly in accordance with the rules for organic production. That means: no GMO’s, no nasty fertilizers that leave residues, only using certified organic seeds, making sure that all the way through the production cycle there are no unnatural contaminants. What about the enzymes? We know that the enzymes are important to you so we take special care to ensure that we do not harm them as we make your juices. The plants get optimum nutrition, especially from the Ocean Grown fertilizer so that the plants have the best opportunity to do what they do best – convert light and water and fertilizer into nutrient dense biomass. When we squeeze and press the juice form the biomass we are careful to use a low speed unit so that the enzymes are not sheared and so that the juice is not heated.
Next we use a pharmaceutical grade system for putting your juice in the little bottles and capping them.
Then to be sure that there are no pathogens such as e: coli or salmonella in your juice we subject it to a lot of hydrostatic pressure. This kills the bugs without hurting the enzymes. Best of all it does the job without heating the juice. (Remember that heat kills enzymes)
We put 7 bottles of juice in every package. The box is made of nice recyclable cardboard which also blocks the light so that the enzymes are protected from light. Why plastic bottles instead of glass?
We came to this question with open minds. Here’s what we found. PET is the most recycled plastic out there – even has a Number “1” in the little triangle symbol. In terms of sustainability and carbon footprint it beats glass by a wide margin. All kinds of studies support this conclusion but we especially like the plain language but factual calculations and explanations given at:
http://www.triplepundit.com/pages/askpablo-glass-vs-pet-bottles-002415.php
This is not a Public Relations exercise from some murky group secretly funded by an oil company. (There are some out there!) Just good common sense merged with solid observation and math. PET beats glass. Why not one big bottle instead of seven little ones?
Remember, we said that enzymes don’t like oxygen? Oxidation degrades the activity level of enzymes. If we used a nice big bottle we would save money but the juice would suffer. Every time you drank one serving you would be closing up the bottle with a fresh supply of air and as the bottle gradually empties there would be more and more air. More and more oxidation too. So that as you go down the bottle the quality of the juice would get worse and worse. So we use a small bottle.
Why hydroponic instead of in soil?
If we were growing lettuce or tomatoes we might give in to an emotional pull to grow them in soil. But we are really processing seeds to the sprout stage and that’s a different world.
To get the full nutrient value from the plants we have to be sure that in their very short life span they get the optimum nutrition all day every day. Not too much, not too little, but the Goldilocks “just right”. In soil, that would be very difficult to manage but with the help of Ocean Grown fertilizer and a hydroponic system we can be sure that every single seed gets what it needs when it needs it.
By the way, to produce a perfect crop every time and do it on a reliable schedule in soil we would have to find a location that offers:
- a perfect climate – not too hot, not too cold, not too humid, not too dry, etc
- unpolluted water
- perfect soil that does not need amendment – and that never wears out or depletes
- regular hours of sunlight
- no animals to feast on the plants
If anyone can show us that place we will probably want to go there. Meanwhile, our enclosed environment chambers do all of that for us with a hydroponic system.
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