yebaah!

a wad of skin care products now claim to have vitamins or anti-oxidants in them to give your skin that glow, that radiance, etcetera… whatevaah.

it’s better to have those nutrients IN your skin than ON it!   To me, a yummier way is to drink orange juice.  It’s a good source of Vit C, potassium, folate, thiamine, B6 and other nutrients.  It’s also easier to drink a glass or two than chomp through 2-4 oranges a day.

but wait! before you grab that bottle of OJ (or God forbid, a packet of powdered juice!), you might wanna veer off to the fresh fruit section of your supermarket instead.  yup, you STILL gotta have it from the real thing.  Fresh!

y’see, a lot of OJ’s nutrients get lost during the pasteurisation and packaging process.  the “all natural” label isn’t quite true.  those that claim to have Vit C, just added it back!  But Vit C and some nutrients get lost through oxidisation.  So you wonder what’s left by the time a bottle gets to the supermarket, to you opening it and after a few days of it sitting in the fridge.   i’d wonder even more when it’s powdered!

when in Davao, i buy the small green mandarins that they sell for around 40 pesos per kilo.  it doesn’t have to be the expensive ones.  and if you don’t have a juicer, you can manually do it.  i do, nowadays, because it gets me enormous amount of good beneficial fibre into my glass which i didn’t get with my electric juicer.  you could tell.  the juice is a lot thicker.

i’m promoting Mother Nature here.  nothing beats the real thing!  it’s better for your skin and by far cheaper than any cosmetic product that claims to have Vit C .

mine and hubby’s morning dose…               i buy them by the boxful! 

my trustee hand juicer which also squeezes out the fibre.   around $10 from Woolworths.  see it roarrrr!!!

PS: 

to those of you who think i’m snooty to snob powdered orange juice… as a healthy drink?  you’re damn right, i’m snobbing it!  it’s too processed, too artificial and with loads of preservatives!  hey, i drink Eight O’clock juice when i’m in the  Philippines, but certainly NOT for health reasons.