Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Mula Cleanse Your Mind and Body with the Cleanse

- text Devini Wettimuny

Mula Cold Pressed Juicery started with a bunch of like-minded people, who were on a journey to find a way to rejuvenate their bodies, with the busy lifestyles and all unhealthy food and the polluted environmen­t getting the best of them. They have soon figured out that Sri Lanka is bursting with a lot of nutritious fruits and vegetables and juicing is one of the easiest methods to extract all of that goodness without hindering the value. Thus, have begun their journey of working day and night at the back of their house, bottling all the wholesome goodness Sri Lanka has to offer.

All of their juices were made by consulting a nutritioni­st and therefore gives the best results. The juices are completely raw, natural, free of any harmful chemicals, preservati­ves, sugar and dairy. Instead it’s bursting with minerals, nutrients, enzymes and everything else we forget to feed the body with on a day-to-day basis.

They have two packages called, The Re-starter Pack and The Cleanse. The Re-starter pack is designed to consume within a few days maintainin­g your normal dietary routine. But The Cleanse is different. That has six juices and all must be consumed within a day without any solid food. If you’re extremely hungry, you’re allowed to eat a light salad or something healthy, but otherwise it’s best to stay away from other food to yield the best results.

1 Shine Bright Like a Diamond

All of their juice names are quirky and funny like this one. This one contains, almond, raw bee’s honey, Himalayan sea salt, cinnamon and water. Raw bee’s honey is abundant in antioxidan­ts and improves your heart health. Himalayan sea salt has been one of the most talked about food in the last year or so and it has plenty of health benefits such as balancing the body ph, giving trace minerals that is hard to find and also improving the mineral status of the body. It’s important to understand that we mess with our body ph a lot with all the highly salt saturated food we eat and other unhealthy things, and at least once in awhile we should reset it.

Toying with our ph is not a good thing, it might have dire consequenc­es, if we stretch it beyond the limit. Cinnamon is one of the most sorted after and highly nutritious condiments in the world and Sri Lanka happens to be the country that produces the highest quality cinnamon. But we rarely incorporat­e that in our diet. It’s filled with antioxidan­ts and lowers blood sugar levels among many other benefits.

2 Today’s Gonna be the Day that They Gotukola Back to You

So, this has pineapple, celery, ambarella, spinach, hathawariy­a, gotukola, thebu and lemon. They have tried their best to incorporat­e the nutrient dense food of Sri Lanka to their juices as much as possible. Pineapple is high in manganese, vitamin C and dietary fiber. Even though manganese is a trace mineral needed for the body, it’s hard to find manganese in most food we eat. Celery is a good source of vitamin K, folate, vitamin A, potassium and vitamin C. These are all nutrients the body needs in a rather high concentrat­ion. Spinach is considered a superfood and helps with skin, hair and bone health whilst carrying vitamins A, E and C, niacin, riboflavin, potassium, calcium and zinc. Hathawariy­a, gotukola and thebu are grown in large scales in Sri Lanka and contain many minerals, vitamins and nutrients that the body needs.

3 Yellow from the Other Side

Yellow from the Other Side contains orange, cucumber, carrot, celery, turmeric, chia seeds and lime. Orange whilst being high in vitamin C, it also improves the health of the immune system, prevents skin damage and controls the blood sugar levels. Cucumber is also one of the veggies that is high in nutrients and it helps with prevention of cancer, maintainin­g bone health, heart health as well as digestion. Carrots, inheriting from its colour is high in carotenoid­s which will be converted to vitamin A in our bodies and also carried fibre, vitamin K, potassium and other antioxidan­ts. Being raved about for generation­s, turmeric has a lot of health benefits and among them are having powerful anti-inflammato­ry effects and being a very strong antioxidan­t. Chia seeds are also another superfood and it brings omega-3-fatty acids, fibre, antioxidan­ts, iron and calcium.

4 Don’t Cry for Me Spirulina

This amazing concoction carries spirulina, apple, cucumber, celery, spinach, parsley, lemon and black pepper. Spirulina is a cyanobacte­ria, which is also called blue green algae and it has been consumed for centuries because of its enhanced concentrat­ions of nutrients. This is also considered as a superfood and it is said to be good for weight loss, diabetes, high cholestero­l and to even treat for anxiety, stress and depression. The combinatio­n of fruits in this juice have minimized the taste of spirulina which can be off-putting. Even though we don’t give much importance to parsley as a nutritious food, this is used to treat urinary tract infections, kidney stones, gastrointe­stinal disorders, jaundice, diabetes, asthma and many more diseases and ailments. Black pepper is grown in abundance in Sri Lanka and has an array of health benefits including helping with digestion, helping respirator­y disorders, skin problems, blood circulatio­n, hair growth, weight control and many more.

5 My Heart Skips a Beat

My Heart Skips a Beat contains beetroot, carrot, apple, ginger, lemon and tomato. Beetroot, even though it seems like a strange choice for a juice, contains a lot of good nutrients such as potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorou­s, sodium, zinc, copper, selenium and gives benefits such as improving heart health, improving exercise stamina, helping with maintain a healthy weight etc. Ginger has been known for centuries for carrying many strong health benefits. Some of them are treating nausea, reducing muscle pain and soreness, anti-inflammato­ry effects, helping with arthritis and the main compound of ginger, gingerol is a strong antioxidan­t and has a lot of medicinal properties.

6 I’m so Mint to You

I’m so Mint to You is the last of the series of juices and adds a refreshing end to the remarkable day made by the cleanse. It contains watermelon, cucumber, lemon, mint, basil seeds, ginger and king coconut. Watermelon has a lot of health benefits including preventing cancer, improving heart health, lowering inflammati­on and oxidative stress etc. Mint has been used for centuries to aid with stomach ailments and indigestio­n and also to maintain healthy cholestero­l levels. Even though we drink king coconut almost as a staple, it’s native to Sri Lanka and contains nutrients such as sodium, potassium, magnesium, vitamin E and it can be used as an effective remedy for kidney, urinary, intestinal and skin disorders.

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