2016.12.01
Naoko Goto

5 Popular Restaurants Offering Fresh Juice in Osaka

Osaka
Food

Osaka is a city famous for having delicious food. It's great to be able to drink healthy smoothies and juices on a trip where you're enjoying delicious food. Here are 5 restaurants with recommended juices.

Index

1. Prana Hakkou Bishoku Cafe
2. Vitamin Paradise
3. Mauloa Acai and Cafe
4. SALONIC
5. PARACHUTES

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1. Prana Hakkou Bishoku Cafe

This cafe offers macrobiotic dishes made using techniques that bring out the sweetness and flavor inside the ingredients. They use fruits and vegetables raised with organic farming, natural farming, or specially cultivated agriculture techniques. They use their own fermented drinks like homemade plum vinegar and kombucha in their fermented cold-pressed juices (648 JPY (incl. tax) per cup). You can get a big pack for take-out for 1,620 JPY (incl. tax). Cold-pressed juices are juices made by pressing fruits and vegetables with pressure using a low-speed juicer that does not use heat at all. These juices are healthy and made to be macrobiotic.

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1. Prana Hakkou Bishoku Cafe

Pearl Shinsaibashi 103, 1-16-26 Kita-Horie, Nishi-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka

2. Vitamin Paradise

This is a cafe with big windows and a view that will calm you. The healthy meals and the special smoothies are popular. There are three types of smoothies (each 500 JPY (incl. tax)), green, pink, and orange, that are all made with very nutritious fruits and vegetables have become a hot topic as a delicious way to up your dietary fiber intake. There are often seasonally limited variations (around 600 JPY), so you might be able to enjoy a smoothie made with the flavors of Japanese autumn.

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2. Vitamin Paradise

Touei Building 2F, 2-2-7 Koraibashi, Chuo-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka

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3. Mauloa Acai and Cafe

This cafe's menu is centered around the acai bowl, a dish very popular in Hawaii. Of course, they also offer plenty of acai drinks, including the acai original smoothie (750 JPY (incl. tax)). Acai is called a superfood, and it's full of amino acids, vitamins, polyphenols that are necessary for energy. It's said acai has 30 times the polyphenols that wine does. The drinks from this shop brings out the best of the acai, so you can have them as an energy charge for your trip.

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3. Mauloa Acai and Cafe

1-3-19 Oyodominami, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka

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4. SALONIC

This shop offers juices under the supervision of a senior fruit sommelier. The blended juices are made without any loss of nutrition and formulated for a balance of ingredients and deliciousness, and they're known to be easy to drink for everyone. There are 6 variations of the popular cold-pressed juices (972 JPY (incl. tax)), but the Katsu flavor for energy made with strawberries, bell peppers, tomatoes, and more are great for tired travelers. Also, the seasonal blends (around 1,100 JPY) should definitely be checked out!

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4. SALONIC

1F, 3-2-6 Dojima, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka

5. PARACHUTES

This is a cold-pressed juice stand from the brand hanafru that's managed by Fruits Nakamura, a famous shop offering only carefully selected seasonal fruits and vegetables from a huge network created over 30 years with farmers from all over Japan and the world. The line-up currently has 8 flavors (1,080 JPY - 1,296 JPY (incl. tax) depending on the type). You can choose which one you'd like based on your current condition, such as if you want more Vitamin A or want something made for beautiful skin.

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5. PARACHUTES

Kawazu Building 1F, 1-1-13 Sonezakishinchi, Kita-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka

These special juices allow you to take in the best of fruits and vegetables in order to give yourself energy and strength. Please have one so you can enjoy your trip in your best condition!

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