OH! Juice Brings a New Taste to San Diego

For lucky San Diegans, our favorite city has a new one-stop shop for delicious and nutritious juice. Earlier this year, OH! Juice opened their Tasting Room in Carlsbad, a unique twist on one of our favorite healthy lifestyle habits. Founded by Hanna Gregor, the juices range in flavor from sweet and chocolatey, such as Cacao Pow, to green and vibrant, like Fiji Fusion. Both gluten- free and dairy-free, this innovative company offers beverages at a low price per ounce with a high amount of nutrition and quality.

Before OH! Juice came to fruition, founder Hanna Gregor was a nutrition coach who worked with approximately ten clients each week. She would coach her clients on efficient grocery shopping and how to create the best smoothies for their diets. Once she realized she couldn’t keep up with the demand, Gregor decided to expand her business and promote health on a bigger scale. "OH! Juice is really an outlet to be able to handcraft and produce a high-quality product on a bigger scale for the community," says Gregor. Her interest in nutrition and health began at a young age, and she had always enjoyed making juice for family and friends, then her clients. Now, Gregor has turned OH! Juice into a healthy staple for San Diego.

And why shouldn’t it be? Juice is a nutritious, natural and simple way to revitalize your body. One specific way juice can change your life is through a juice cleanse. OH! Juice cleanses are designed to eliminate unhealthy additives and unwanted toxins to help you begin a journey towards a healthier lifestyle. Each bottle contains around two to three pounds of raw, cold- pressed produce. Nut mylks are often used to replace desserts, and green juices fill your recommended vegetables for the day. Not only are OH! juices organic, they are also cold-pressed.

This means that, although the juices are more expensive than comparable or big brand-name products, OH! juices have significantly more nutritional value because the juice is not extracted with heat. The juice is a raw product, which means it remains in its exact state after being bottled—it’s never altered to extend the shelf life.

To prep for a juice cleanse, or to have a tasty treat, OH! Juice’s new Carlsbad Tasting Room is a must. In a normal tasting, you won’t have to spend a cent. Sit down at the juice bar and chat with juice consultants. These consultants will learn your health goals and pour juices just for you. If you have time, sit for a full tasting, but don’t be shy! If you’re in a hurry and know exactly what you want or like, you can quickly purchase the juices you want for around $10 to $12 each. But a full tasting is ideal, as you can go through every juice, determine what you like and even purchase juice to take home. OH! Juice lets you try different blends without any financial pressure to purchase.

OH! Juice is a certified organic company with 90% of its ingredients hailing from over 50 local farms. As a way to make good on their promise of freshness, they strive to sell out of their fresh juice within the last three hours of every day, thus keeping only fresh juices on their shelves. "Everything is made fresh, every single day, in every single variety," founder Hanna Gregor confirms. Unfortunately, that means OH! Juice may sell out of your favorite blend, but the company has an ingenious solution: they allow customers to pre-order their juices online to ensure they have the right amount and type of ingredients delivered daily.

OH! Juice prides itself on being eco-friendly. Each juice is poured into a glass bottle, which makes it easier to reuse and reduces the amount of plastic the company uses daily. Better still, they also dump their compost on their local farms to help grow more produce.

Although OH! Juice has plans to expand in the future, their main goal is to continue to focus on their customers and their overall health. Unlike companies who mass produce, Gregor and company look out for their consumers by not cutting corners and investing in the best produce and machinery for their products. "If we cared about profit, we’d be in plastic bottles [and] we wouldn’t be certified organic," adds Gregor. "We operate with high standards."

Stop in and take a sip—with juice this fresh and delicious, you’ll be saying "OH!" in no time!