Are you a green junkie, cool crush or in need of a sucker punch? Or do you simply like to go nuts?
If any of these names sound familiar to you, then you must have had a taste of Raw ME products – Qatar’s First Health Food & Beverage Co. offering a variety of products and customised services to help you navigate a healthier on-the-go lifestyle for ladies.
Everybody knows (or at least reads) that they should eat healthy and get their portion of fruit & veggies per day but due to busy lifestyles, does not find the time to follow through with it. Because isn’t it so much easier to just order on food delivery apps? And have you checked the kids’ lunch boxes for school lately? Instead of an apple and pear a day, you will find a pack of chips and some chocolate.
So how can one create a healthier diet while having a busy lifestyle with limited time to cook real food and prepare your lunch box for work or school every day? Including some raw juice treats in your diet might just be the answer and if you buy them ready to drink or get them delivered to your home or office door there will be no excuses anymore to become healthier.
People living in Qatar will agree that the country is putting in a lot of effort in the past few years to promote an active and healthy lifestyle. There are many events and activities being held for families and athletes, but exercise is just part of the solution. Following a healthy diet is just as important to ensure you manage a healthy weight and it also plays a major role in people suffering from diabetes in the country. It definitely starts with changing your mindset and especially the parents’ mindsets to also give their children healthy food & snacks for school. The cool kids should be the ones with the fruit in the bags, not the one with chips and chocolates!
And this is just what Raw ME’s goal and main focus was when they opened up their doors back in 2011 to develop an easy and quick, but also healthy way to get all the important nutrients into your daily diet, and what could be a more convenient way than sipping it down in juice form. Raw ME is currently the first and only service of its kind in Doha, which offers juice cleansing and detox packages to be delivered at your door. The ingredients are fresh and the juices are made in a Qatar-based kitchen. A range of options are available.
Cold pressing, used to create these raw juice products, is a relatively new concept to Qatar and adding vegetables to juice has also became a familiar scene recently. Due to the country’s geographical location and desert type of environment, 98% of the countries’ food is imported. There are only around five companies that produce their food or products fresh in Qatar, and Raw ME is one of them.
Hand picking every fruit and vegetable they include in the products, it is also good to know that they support local agriculture by buying some of the seasonable vegetables when available – starting with green veggies above all.
But Why Raw?
By using high-tech cold pressing machinery more of the fresh ingredients’ nutrients stay intact. Ensuring you that you fully get the benefits of a daily fruit and vegetable intake. Most people think they should cook breakfast, lunch and dinner but don’t always realise that you lose a lot of the “important stuff”, and as mentioned before, if time is limited and you have a busy on-the-go lifestyle, Raw ME’s products can really open a whole new world for you.
They focus most of their time on delivery services rather than becoming a retail outlet, to ensure the products get delivered fresh into the consumers’ hands. Limiting any form of excuse not to try and eat healthy.
Layla Al-Dorani, founder and CEO of the business, says that “You won’t believe it but our beetroot juice mix is a best seller among kids, they actually think it is strawberry juice! It tastes so good! It’s the best surprise, but shhh… don’t tell them!”
Of course, you can also make your own juices at home when you have the time and energy! A recipe recommended by Raw ME follows something like this:
Green Envy
- A handful of green grapes
- One cucumber
- One green apple
- A handful of greens: Kale or Spinach
Benefits: A dose of iron – the key for healthy blood cells and muscle function.
Special Tip: Make your juice a smoothie by adding fresh avocado. Pour the juice into a blender and add ½ avocado to give it a creamy texture and delicious taste!
Sounds kinda cool to jump on the juice bandwagon doesn’t it? So if you’re keen to hop along but have no time to prepare your raw juice mix at home why not check out www.raw-me.com and order some products online!
Try it and return to Mother Nature – eat more pure and natural food, even if it is just one meal per day!
Words by: Eulogy van Dyk
Photos by:Raw Middle East
