By COLlive reporter
One of the companies catering to the popular liquid diets is the Los Angeles based Pressed Juicery which creates drinks from fruits, vegetables and nuts.
The company offers 16-ounce bottles of organic, nutrient-packed, fresh-pressed juice. The company places a bottle of juice into a cold chamber of water and applies pressure to it, creating a soft-serve ice-cream-like result.
Two stores locations reported to have a high volume of frum clientele are the Williamsburg branch at 166 N. 7th Street in Brooklyn and at The Grove in Los Angeles, California.
In response to an inquiry by COLlive.com, a representative of the company stated that “Our products are certified kosher.”
The OU kosher certifications indeed lists “Pressed Juicery” on their website. It names 41 products of the company that are OU Pareve, noting that a “Symbol required. Not Kosher for Passover.”
But it wasn’t clear whether the fresh products made on premises of Pressed Juicery branches are certified as well.
The OU Letter of Certification, dated January 5, 2018, states: “This is to certify that the following product(s) prepared by Pressed Juicery, 1550 17th St., Santa Monica, CA 90404 are under the supervision of the Kashruth Division of the Orthodox Union.”
“The address on the form is our corporate headquarters in Santa Monica,” said Ashley Demoff of Pressed Juicery. “Our products are all made at our manufacturing facility in central California, deliberately close to many of the farmers we source our produce from.”
A kashrus expert told COLlive.com that, in general, “Pressed juices from a kiosk or store that is not kosher certified can have kosher concerns.”
A few examples were adding non-kosher additives to the juice product, grape juice not being mevushal and no foods are being brought in for commercial sale or personal and employee use.
Update (Monday, January 8, 2018):
The OU made the following statement: “The Orthodox Union only certifies sealed Pressed Juicery drinks produced at their plant. We have no affiliation with the stores and do not recommend anything other than sealed products bearing the OU symbol.”
This article has been updated to include new details
For those scrolling through col, they assume there is no problem with the product. Please change it
I myself emailed the OU a few months ago. The actual packaged juices can have an OU symbol (which would be okay to drink from the sealed bottle) HOWEVER, as soon as the bottle or package with an OU is opened and they put it in their ice cream maker, there is no supervision. Besides for the fact about washing the machines… Basically, the package/bottle itself can have a hechsher, but the store does not. Same way we don’t eat everything in a 7-11 just because one package of nuts had a hechsher. Some products in the store can be… Read more »
vegans have absolutely no problem with non kosher grape juice, wine or balsamic vinegar. It’s also a big issue if they use Israeli produce without a hechsher
getting your own juicing machine produces juices that can prevent disease if you do a little research to design your juices, and if you juice regularly. even cancer can be prevented if you drink wheat grass juice.
but just regular apples, oranges, carrots and celery – which is more delicious than any bottled juice – has tons of health benefits.
working with their doctors, people have gone off of medications when going on juice fasts.
but you do not have to fast. juicing regularly has amazing health benefits. including weight loss.
Last I checked, the freeze solutions all have OU hechsher on the bottle, and are processed through a cold machine to freeze them. One step better than slurpees, since all the juices are kosher
Are you joking? Denying yidden of food in an already limited market? With love and respect, you’re delusional, my friend. There are 300 different options for potato chips nowadays. There are thousands of options for everything. There is more kosher food available today than there ever was, and frozen juice is not a vital necessity. We’re talking about the middle of Brooklyn and LA here, not the Appalachian foothills. This is pure taiveh and this is why chassidus warns us about allowing yourself taivas heter; because eventually you become so fargrebt, so self-absorbed, so completely bought into your own self-delusion,… Read more »
I am not from thoze that the first thing when i see food i try to figure out why its not kosher
Mayby thats because i don’t make a living off of kashrus and i am a shliach in a small city where i have to make things easier so when i see a food item i try to figure out why its kosher
But yidden from Brooklyn and LA
really
Do you need an item that dosent have a proper hechsher especialy when its such a waste of money
Gut shabbes
Why eat at a place that has no hechsher? Because that is the way it was for hundreds and thousands of years. A recent practice should shut down a parnasa and deny yidden food in an already limited market? A chossid puts another’s gashmius before his own ruchnius
Made from…coconuts!!
Go to https://oukosher.org/letter-of-kosher-certification/ and enter Pressed Juicery as the Company. You get a list of all the OU certified products. The stores are obligated to only buy from the Pressed Juicery manufacturing location(s).
If you would buy a Slurpee at 7-Eleven or a Coca-Cola fountain drink, then this is no different.
None of the freezes have dairy or animal products because it is labelled VEGAN. I doubt such a company would even risk putting any animal products in because if vegans found out they were cheating, that would be the end of a business. And they cant lie about ingredients becuase of allergies.
I would say its safe to assume that pressed freezes are kosher because:
All the juices are o-u
Everything is vegan (no animal products whatsoever, including honey)
Thats the only things they serve in the store
Every edible is treif, if you examine it close enough.
Coconut is NOT a cow
Coconut milk has no milk. Its just called that
#12 is right on.Make MHM happy and get certified and open 50more stores. Especially ירושלים👍👍👍💍
never walked into a starbaucks in my life … don’t get anyone who walks in there … the place is not kosher , sells non kosher products and doesn’t have a mashgiach.
since when did frum jews eat drink from a place like that?
i grew up in a place where if going out of town you took a flask with u !
Can a Rav please respond to this clown
Here is the tragedy….
This is definitely a lot less of an issue than any coffee shop or any other public source one may get a coffee like the airplane etc. All products used in the machinery have ou cert.
Why eat at a place that has no hechsher
No, not all reliably Kosher certified grape juice is automatically mevushal. The processing DOESN’T automatically take it into mevushal temperatures. Kedem davka has non mevushal grape juice if I recall.
Is the coconut milk cholov Yisroel?
These juices are good. Everyone says they are fine. They taste pretty kosher to me. Who is this person to come and potentially assur awesome drinks for everyone?
It’s amazing how people want to find a heter in everything one of their main ingredients is coconut milk which requires a Hechsher. If there is no one verifying the source of the coconut milk how can one say it’s ok to drink
Just curious as they are the ones who give a hechsher on the drinks. I did wonder how frum people were getting the freeze?.
It would be great if we could get clear answer if it is kosher or not.
This article pertains to the ice cream only.
To whomever this may concern,
First off, All the juices are kosher under the OU and on their website there are flavors which are officially kosher. Second, if you go to LA by the grove, there is a letter that says according to one of the rabbonim that they say it’s kosher.
So before you make a whole post.. maybe look into it
BS”D This is some of today’s youth-what could be unkosher about it
Isnt all kosher grape juice mevushal due to boiling if so does this process have to be bishul Yisroel
Thanks
Are we frum or not. Without a reliable supervising agency at each store, there isn’t any guarantee of kashrus. First kashrus needs to be vetted, then we can decide if we want to patronize the store. Shocking how easy ‘mode heter’ seems to have invaded some frum people or how weak the teachers and leaders are in not making people aware of modern kashrus concerns that need to be addressed.it’ll never be as simple as it once was.
These would all be issues except it has a reliable ou pareve hechsher!