What makes BarleyMax® such a nutritionally excellent product?
Why do we consider it the next best thing to fresh juicing?
For reasons that range from the selection of the seeds to the packaging, each phase of how we produce BarleyMax® ensures that you get the best barley juice powder mix possible.
Read on for a behind-the-scenes look at how we make this incredible product…
The organic barley and alfalfa in BarleyMax® are grown in the US at an elevation of 5000 ft on over 900 acres of certified organic land. This high elevation promotes slower growth due to the cooler weather, which allows for the high nutritional content in our plants. Environmental factors, such as the amount of rain or the temperature during the growing season, mean BarleyMax® may have some variation in its look or taste, but this is natural: BarleyMax® still contains all of the nutritional value you’ve come to expect.
In addition, while there is an abundance of natural minerals in the ground, we never leave ground maintenance to chance. Some of the proactive measures we take to ensure that it is done properly for optimal crop – and nutrition – yield include:
Cycling the barley and alfalfa, with dormant times for the land.
Implementing a healthy organic fertilization program that involves: growing the alfalfa and then “green chopping” it into the ground; composting with barley pulp (left over from juicing) and aged compost; and allowing this mixture to work in the soil over the winter.
Irrigating from deep mineral-rich wells on the farm and from an aquifer in the area.
Allowing the land to rest for a year’s period every seven years.
We harvest the plants in the spring and autumn while they are young and tender to get a better crop yield and a superior nutritional product. After harvesting, the grasses are ground and then slowly pressed into juice, which is then strained of any remaining pulp, and placed in a chilling tank where it is held at 34 degrees to maintain nutrition and enzyme values.
Then the juice is dried. While other manufacturers use freezing or spraying to dry their juices, we use a special patented drying process that takes the product to less than 5% moisture, which is key to having a stable powder. The moisture that comes off the product replaces the air that surrounds it, thus minimizing the susceptibility to oxidation (which promotes product degradation). Moreover, because heat damages nutrition and enzymes, especially when the product is wet, the maximum temperature ever attained during this proprietary drying process is 98 degrees F.
Once the barley and alfalfa juices are dried, they are converted into powder form, then mixed together in their proper proportions in specially designed blenders that render the combination into the fine powder consistency. All in all, it takes an average of 25 pounds of fresh barley and alfalfa grass to make one and a half gallons of juice, which makes one pound of fresh BarleyMax® powder.
After the mixing is complete, the BarleyMax® powder is packaged on-site in food-grade plastic containers to help protect it from sunlight, the environment, and possible damage during shipping.
This entire process results in a barley juice powder concentrate that is superior in nutrition to any other on the market today.
Try BarleyMax® for yourself, and experience the convenience and tremendous health benefits today!
Making CarrotJuiceMax™ and BeetMax The production process for CarrotJuiceMax™ and BeetMax is the same as that of BarleyMax®, with one exception: due to the high natural sugar content of the organic carrots and organic beets, it is necessary to add a small amount of organic brown rice syrup during processing to provide stability and to allow each of the powders to be free flowing.
Both CarrotJuiceMax™ and BeetMax are nutrient-dense juice powder concentrates that give you Maximum nutrition when fresh carrot and beet juices are not available.
CarrotJuiceMax:
BeetMax:
All of our Max products – BarleyMax®, CarrotJuiceMax™ and BeetMax – are just some of the complementary products of The Hallelujah Diet®. Check out the others here!
The following names are all registered trademarks, trademarks or service marks of Hallelujah Acres, Inc: Hallelujah Acres®, BarleyMax®, Get Healthy! Stay Balanced®, The Hallelujah Diet®, Back to the Garden®, The Hallelujah Health Tip®, Hallelujah Acres Café®, B-Flax-D®, CarrotJuiceMax®, Hallelujah Acres Lifestyle CenterSM, Hallelujah Acres UniversitySM, Hallelujah Diet & LifestyleSM, Health MinisterSM, WaterMaxTM, Hallelujah Acres Diet & LifestyleTM, Hallelujah Acres Living WomanTM, and You Don't Have to be SickSM
The organic barley and alfalfa in BarleyMax® are grown in the US at an elevation of 5000 ft on over 900 acres of certified organic land. This high elevation promotes slower growth due to the cooler weather, which allows for the high nutritional content in our plants. Environmental factors, such as the amount of rain or the temperature during the growing season, mean BarleyMax® may have some variation in its look or taste, but this is natural: BarleyMax® still contains all of the nutritional value you’ve come to expect.
Then the juice is dried. While other manufacturers use freezing or spraying to dry their juices, we use a special patented drying process that takes the product to less than 5% moisture, which is key to having a stable powder. The moisture that comes off the product replaces the air that surrounds it, thus minimizing the susceptibility to oxidation (which promotes product degradation). Moreover, because heat damages nutrition and enzymes, especially when the product is wet, the maximum temperature ever attained during this proprietary drying process is 98 degrees F.
Once the barley and alfalfa juices are dried, they are converted into powder form, then mixed together in their proper proportions in specially designed blenders that render the combination into the fine powder consistency. All in all, it takes an average of 25 pounds of fresh barley and alfalfa grass to make one and a half gallons of juice, which makes one pound of fresh BarleyMax® powder.
