Drink good juice and wear good shoes. new moon note March 2024

About this month's juice, events and stalls from spring, my favorite shoes lately, etc.

Today is the new moon of March. Spring is fast approaching, and our special juice for March is "Spring Green Juice."

As spring approaches, many people worry about hay fever. This year, perhaps due to the warm winter, it seems like hay fever is starting to appear early. Even at our stores, we've been getting a lot of questions from quite early on, such as "Which juice is good for hay fever?"

Juice that helps with hay fever! Rather than saying, "Drink this and your hay fever will improve!", I think it's important to take in the nutrients from living plants, boost your immunity, improve your intestinal environment, and increase your body's strength to make your body resistant to pollen and free of symptoms. That's why it's good to "drink lots of fresh, high-energy juice on a regular basis!"

Among these, there is one ingredient in nature that is particularly effective against hay fever. That ingredient is "Jabara." Lately, it has become more common in convenience store throat lozenges, so many people may be familiar with it. For more information, please see the website of the Japan Jabara Association, but it has been scientifically recognized that Jabara is effective against hay fever. This month's special juice is a green juice that contains Jabara and delicious komatsuna, and is packed with green nutrition. It is especially recommended for those with hay fever, so please give it a try.

The jabara that Sunshine Juice has been using for a long time now comes from Kawasaki-san in Saga Prefecture. We met in 2015 when we made cold-pressed juice and vegan soup using Saga ingredients for a project called "Saga Prize" in Saga Prefecture. I visited Saga Prefecture for the first time back then and was surprised by how delicious the citrus fruits were, how beautiful the sea was, and how delicious the vegetables and fruits were made in the soil containing minerals from the sea. We also made soup using salt and seaweed from the Ariake Sea (this is the seaweed sesame lotus root soup that we still sell today). We use the jabara that we found at that time every year to make juice. This refreshing and delicious green juice made with jabara, which is effective against hay fever, will be available in stores this year as a frozen juice! Please give it a try.

With spring approaching, it seems that there will be more events and pop-ups. The first one will be held on March 16th at Banabasa in Kamakura, in collaboration with Vivo Barefoot (Vivo). We will meet at Banabasa in Kamakura at 9am. We will try on Vivo shoes for about two hours, or walk barefoot in your favorite style. After that, we will all go to Banabasa for a fresh start! Let's start your Saturday with some delicious juice. Please join us! For more details, please see Instagram.

I've been enjoying wearing VIvo Barefoot shoes lately. I was born with bunions and have a bad foot shape, which I thought would affect my running, so I'd been quite conscious of gathering towels, but when I heard about the Vivo concept , I thought, "This is amazing!" For me, they're not really shoes for running, but shoes that I can wear on a daily basis and use my feet more consciously.

Rather than "I only feel good when I run," I think it's wonderful to approach it from everyday life and fundamentally improve the balance of your feet to improve your performance when running, walking, and living. After hearing this story, I felt that vegetable juice is the same. Drink it just once and cleanse for just one day. Instead, by drinking it regularly, your body's cells and taste buds will adapt, and by experiencing how good it feels, your original diet will change and you will become healthier. I want it to be that kind of item. So there's a lot to learn from Vivo, such a wonderful brand, and we're holding the event on Saturday morning at another of my favorite stores in Kamakura, Banabasa, so please join us for a wonderful morning.

Another reason why I became a fan of Vivo is that they also make shoes for children, which are sold at a much cheaper price. It would be great if children's feet could get used to these shoes from an early age, but they will soon grow out of them... It's a clever idea to allow children to wear shoes in the right size, which I thought was wonderful. Children are welcome to participate in the next event!

The vernal equinox is approaching, and I feel even more happy that spring is coming this year. Please look forward to our upcoming events and stalls, which we will announce on Instagram. And as always, we will be at the Ebisu store, working as many shifts as possible on Wednesdays and Saturdays, so we look forward to seeing you in Ebisu and at events around the country.

I feel that drinking high-energy juice every day feels good! So I hope to deliver more powerful and energizing vegetable juice to you all so that you can have a juicy spring! Thank you for your continued support this month.