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MELU Juice and Health Bar – Coal Harbour

July 28, 2015 by foodgressing Leave a Comment

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Disclosure:  I was invited by MELU Juice and Health Bar to attend a tasting session.  All opinions are mine alone.

MELU Juice and Health Bar opened this month in Coal Harbour and is the area’s first premium cold-pressed juice and health bar.  At MELU, it’s about unique ingredients, creative recipes, nourishing meals and guilt-free desserts that are so good you’ll be wanting more.  Aside from cold-pressed juices, MELU has other raw, unpasteurized, vegan, and gluten-free options including nut mylks, smoothies, detox waters, salads, overnight oatmeals, and health bars (more on that below).  I spent an afternoon with co-founder, Angela Luo, where we had a fun and *guilt-free* tasting session and discussed MELU’s concept and offerings.

Healthy Addiction

MELU’s naturally formulated cold-pressed juices are created in-house and use 2 – 3 lbs of fresh vegetables, fruits, and roots.  Some unique ingredients used include jicama, bamboo charcoal and winter melon.

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MELU currently offers 8 cold-pressed juices flavours, 4 nut mylks and 4 smoothies including Berry Beetiful, Grapefruit Heartbeet, The Pink Elephant, and Cacao Monkey.

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The juices retain high nutritional content by processing them using the cold-pressed method.  Furthermore, MELU’s juices have benefits include mood boosting, glowing skin, and promoting weight-loss.  To understand the health benefits of each type of juice, MELU has developed an easy-to-understand guide which is seen on one of their walls.

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The benefits of each juice can be easily found on the back of the bottle.

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After sampling all of MELU’s cold-pressed juices, my personal favorite is the Black Magic.   The black colour of the juice was not appealing at first, but I surprisingly enjoyed the flavour.  It contains activated bamboo charcoal but has a citrus flavour as it includes lemon.  Other ingredients include cayenne, Himalayan pink salt and agave.

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In regards to MELU’s nut mylks, they were smooth and sweet.  Chocolate lovers like myself would no doubt enjoy the Cacao Monkey.   The Pink Elephant is a fun summertime flavour with strawberry, raw vanilla bean, agave nectar, and Himalayan pink salt.

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I also enjoyed The Cob smoothie which has corn, house-made cashew mylk, banana, and avocado.  The fusion of flavours from the ingredients made a delicious, rich and only slightly sweet drink.

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MELU Juice Cleanse

MELU just announced their juice cleanse programs available as 1, 3 or 5 days.  The detox waters are rich in flavor like cold pressed juices and but not as thick as smoothies.  Who knew that they would also be that pretty?

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Guilt-Free Desserts

The Instagram universe is abuzz with MELU’s eye-catching yet healthy and delicious health bars.  These bars are not heated or baked to retain the utmost nutritional content without any added sugar, addictive, or preservatives.

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I loved the Mangolicious bar, which had mango, walnuts, almonds, cashews, coconut mylk, shreeded coconut, dates and agave nectar.  It was just subtly sweet with mangos on top.

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Other yummy bars include Kind of a Fig Deal, Frosty the Carrot Cake, Cold Brewhaha and So Fudgin Good (a must for chococlate lovers!).

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Clean, Bright Space

MELU’s clean bright space includes a torn up brick wall (for artistic purposes) and a painted rug.

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Overall Impression

MELU Juice and Health Bar has some creative, delicious yet nourishing offerings in today’s busy and demanding world.  Their mission to deliver a healthy alternative to fast food is on the right track.  MELU’s health bars are sinfully tasty, but you can happily eat them without regret.

Website: http://www.melujuice.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/melujuice
Twitter: http://twitter.com/melujuice
Instagram: http://instagram.com/melujuice
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