How a soup cleanse can support your gut

The Importance of Gut Health

The microbiome in your gut regulates not only your gut health but your skin, metabolic, and brain health. There’s no wonder it’s often referred to as your second brain. With this in mind, it is crucial that we take care of our gut health - we believe that if we can improve our customers' gut health, we can improve their overall health.

In our modern world, there are several factors that can affect our gut health, from stress, to lack of sleep and poor sleep quality, as well as our increased consumption of highly processed and sugary foods. Our soup and juice cleanse aims to counter these effects and make it easier to access food that works with your gut, not against it.

Why a Soup Cleanse?

Whilst we generally promote a whole food diet, we believe that sometimes the body can benefit from a deeper cleanse or reset. A proper cleanse needs nutrients that support the body’s innate detoxification systems, as well as anti-microbials that encourage a “good” gut environment. This is where soup and juices come in as they can help deliver those nutrients quickly and easily; the food avoids the process of digestion that involves whole foods and is, therefore, gentler on the digestive system.

Our Soup Cleanse can be the perfect reset or healthy kickstart, built to deliver fast results, whilst encouraging long-term benefits.

Potential Benefits:

Soup is the ultimate comfort food, and teamed with fresh juices, it also comes with other significant health benefits.

• Cooked food gives your digestive system a rest, allowing it to process nutrients more efficiently.
• Our fresh juices and soups will flood your body with an abundance of bioavailable nutrients that can efficiently be absorbed directly by your body.
• The high veg content also means a low glycemic scale and high fibre content which should result in regulated energy levels. 
• Achieve maximum diversity: 75% of the world’s food is generated from only twelve plant and five animal species. Essentially, this means that both our taste buds and our gut microbiome are missing out on a lot of variety. The consequence? The restricted diet is thought to starve off microbiota that requires a diverse nutrient supply, and may very well explain why, compared to our ancestors, our GM diversity as a population has taken a hit. The more diverse the plants in your diet, the more diverse the nutrient supply for your GM. All in all, this equates to a well-fed and diverse range of happy gut microbes
• Our soups and juices are sure to spice up your life: spices and herbs add more polyphenols (a class of phytochemicals, which is just the sciencey name for a group of plant chemicals), whilst boosting their flavour.
• A cleanse is effective in lifting you out of a lethargic state, providing a boost of energy, and clearing a mental block.
• What’s more, a cleanse can be known to help with weight management 

Tips to take on after the cleanse:

Often what you put into your body after a cleanse can be more important than the cleanse itself. Your gut is ready to absorb all the nutrients you consume; sticking to a varied, whole-food diet will ensure that you really feel the effects in your body and your mind. Continue to ease slowly back into a lifestyle that suits you. Try to minimise your caffeine intake, as well as processed food and drinks, sugars, gluten and dairy so as not to counteract the effects of the cleanse. If you want to reap the benefits of the cleanse for as long as possible, we recommend booking one of our meal plans to ensure your fridge continues to be stocked with fresh and exciting plant foods you have discovered on the cleanse. Please do contact a member of our team if you need any further advice on this.

You can order our Soup Cleanse here.