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Cold-pressed juice in Lisbon

Cold-pressed juice in Lisbon is pressed fresh every morning at Aura Wellness Bar — at the Campo de Ourique flagship (R. Domingos Sequeira 11A), at counters in Santos and Campolide, and for delivery from that store on Uber Eats. Single juices are €7–8 and the 60ml SUNNY SHOT is €4. Six bottles make a cleanse day — IGNITE, RAW, BALANCE, SERENITY, VIBRANCE and the SUNNY SHOT — on 1, 2 and 4-day programs from €24 a day, delivered to Lisbon and Porto addresses the evening before you start.

What cold-pressed actually means

Cold-pressed is a method, not a marketing word, and it happens in two stages. Produce is first ground into a pulp; that pulp is then wrapped and squeezed between two plates under high pressure until the juice is forced out and the fibre stays behind in the press cloth. Nothing in the machine spins fast, which is where the name comes from: the cold refers to the absence of process heat, not to refrigeration.

A centrifugal juicer — the standard machine behind most café counters — works the other way round. It shreds produce against a grater turning at around 10,000 RPM and flings the juice out through a sieve. Fast, and it adds two things a press does not: friction heat, and a lot of air. The head of foam on a centrifuged juice is that air, and it is the easiest tell there is.

Heat and oxygen are what the fragile compounds mind. Minerals are indifferent to how you process them; vitamin C, several B vitamins and the more delicate polyphenols degrade with heat and oxidise on contact with air — the same chemistry that browns a cut apple. A press adds almost neither, so less is lost. Pressing also gets more juice out of leafy greens and fibrous stalks like spinach and celery, which is why green juices are nearly always cold-pressed. Aura presses every juice in-house, daily, on a hydraulic press.

The honest size of that advantage is modest: pressing loses less of what the vegetables already had — it does not add anything. And the bigger variable is not the machine at all, it is the clock. Vitamin C and the delicate polyphenols decline steadily from the moment of pressing whichever machine did it, so a juice pressed this morning beats a better-pressed juice from last week. Cold-pressed versus blended goes further into what each machine does to fibre, vitamin C and sugar absorption.

What juice does — and what it doesn't

No juice detoxes you. Your liver and kidneys clear waste from your blood continuously, whether or not there is a green juice in your hand, and nothing in a bottle switches that on.

What cold-pressed juice does do is narrower and worth having: proper hydration, concentrated micronutrients from more produce than most people would sit down and chew through, and a lighter load on digestion, because the fibre was left behind in the press cloth.

That last one is also the trade, and it cuts both ways: fibre is what slows sugar down. A crossover study in The Lancet compared whole apples, apple purée and apple juice at identical sugar content and found that removing the fibre made the insulin response markedly steeper and left people measurably less satiated — a result that has held up for nearly fifty years. Haber et al., The Lancet, 1977 · DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(77)90494-9

The practical consequence is simple: a juice works best between meals rather than instead of one, and if you want the produce without the sugar, reach for the vegetable-led presses. RAW is spinach, cucumber, celery, lemon, ginger and microgreens; IGNITE is beetroot, cucumber, celery and ginger with only a squeeze of lime.

What the research actually shows

Three findings carry most of the weight here, and each comes with a limit worth saying out loud. These are the same peer-reviewed papers cited on the cleanse page, linked so you can read them yourself:

  • Three days of juice moved the gut microbiome. A study in Scientific Reports followed 20 healthy adults drinking six cold-pressed vegetable and fruit juices a day for three days: gut bacteria shifted toward Bacteroidetes, the family associated with leaner metabolic profiles, participants lost an average of 1.7 kg, and plasma lipid peroxides — a marker of oxidative stress — dropped significantly. Twenty people over three days is a signal, not a settled result. Henning et al., Scientific Reports · DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-02200-6
  • Beet nitrate lowers blood pressure — at a dose, over weeks. A randomized trial in Hypertension found that 250 ml of cold-pressed beet juice a day reduced systolic blood pressure by an average of 8 mmHg in hypertensive adults over four weeks, through dietary nitrate converting to nitric oxide. Beet is the base of VIBRANCE and of IGNITE — but that result is a daily habit in people who already have high blood pressure, not one bottle on a Tuesday. Kapil et al., Hypertension · DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.114.04675
  • Ginger has the sturdiest evidence of the three. A meta-analysis in Nutrients pooled 16 randomized controlled trials and concluded that ginger supplementation produces a statistically significant reduction in CRP and other inflammatory markers. But a supplement dose in a trial is not the ginger in one press, so read it as direction, not dosage. Ginger is in RAW, BALANCE, IGNITE and the SUNNY SHOT. Morvaridzadeh et al., Nutrients · DOI: 10.3390/nu12010157

None of that makes juice a treatment. It makes it a concentrated, well-studied way to get more vegetables into a day. The cleanse page carries the full science section with every citation.

Fresh-pressed or shelf-stable?

An unpasteurized cold-pressed juice is roughly a 72-hour product, refrigerated and sealed — and best on day one. So a bottle labelled cold-pressed with a three-week date has usually been through high-pressure processing (HPP) or pasteurisation: legitimate, well-tested methods that hold juice stable for weeks, but a different thing from juice pressed this morning.

Aura's answer to that is logistical rather than chemical: every juice is pressed each morning on the hydraulic press in the Campo de Ourique store, bottled in glass, and sold or delivered the same day — no preservatives, no concentrates, never pasteurized. Cleanse bottles carry the same rule: keep them at 4°C or below and drink them within 72 hours.

Six things tell you which one is in your hand, wherever you buy it:

  • A date in days, not weeks. Unpasteurized pressed juice is roughly a 72-hour product. A three-week date means the bottle has been stabilised some other way.
  • Cold the whole way. An ambient shelf is the giveaway. The clock starts at the press, and refrigeration is the only thing that slows it.
  • Foam, or the absence of it. A pressed juice comes off dense and almost foam-free. A visible head of foam is air that a spinning blade whipped in.
  • Settling is normal. Nothing has been added to hold the solids in suspension, so the juice separates in the bottle. Shake it; don't read it as a fault.
  • Glass over plastic. Glass is inert, so nothing leaches into an acidic juice, and the bottle can go back to be sterilised and refilled — at Aura that is worth 50 loyalty points a glass.
  • A full ingredient list. Every ingredient, in order, with no proprietary blend standing in for the ones you would rather not read.

By what you need

  • RAW — greens, minerals, almost no sugar (€7) Spinach, cucumber, celery, lemon, ginger, and microgreens — the green juice to reach for when you want chlorophyll, electrolytes, and minerals with very little sugar. Suits anyone trying to eat vegetables they would not otherwise chew.
  • BALANCE — immunity & heart (€7) Orange, carrot, lemon, and ginger — vitamin C and beta-carotene in a bright, citrus-forward press. The easiest one to start with if green juice is not your thing yet.
  • SERENITY — stress & clarity (€7) Celery, pineapple, and mint — cooling and deeply hydrating, with bromelain from the pineapple for digestive comfort. The mid-afternoon one.
  • VIBRANCE — cardiovascular (€7) Apple, carrot, and beet — beet nitrates convert to nitric oxide in the body, supporting blood flow and oxygen delivery. The one to drink before you train.
  • IGNITE — digestion & circulation, no fruit sugar (€8) Beetroot, cucumber, celery, and ginger with only a squeeze of lime — the one fully vegetable press on the cleanse roster, and the pick if you skip fruit juice.
  • SUNNY SHOT — immunity (€4) A concentrated 60ml press of ginger, lemon, orange, and turmeric — curcumin paired with ginger for bioavailability. A small ritual rather than a drink.

Every ingredient is listed on the bottle and on the juices & shots menu — no proprietary blends. If the shot is what you're after, the blog explains what ginger and turmeric shots actually do. If smoothies are more your thing, see the guide to getting a smoothie in Lisbon.

By neighbourhood

  • Campo de Ourique / Estrela / Lapa. The Aura flagship at R. Domingos Sequeira 11A carries the cold-pressed range — RAW, BALANCE, SERENITY, VIBRANCE, IGNITE and the SUNNY SHOT — pressed on site.
  • Santos. Aura's counter inside MVMT Studio (R. das Janelas Verdes 128C) serves juices and shots before and after class.
  • Campolide / Amoreiras. Aura runs the counter at Fine Club, Lisbon's first Lagree studio, at Rua de Campolide 293A.
  • Porto. Outside Lisbon, find Aura inside Prescription at Rua Fonte da Luz 217.

How Aura compares to other Lisbon juice spots

Lisbon has a small but real juice scene, and more than one place does it well:

  • Levantino. Fresh juice, made to order.
  • YAO Pressed Juicery. A cold-pressed juicery in central Lisbon.
  • Liquid. A Lisbon juice spot with its own following.
  • The Detox Company. A detox brand built around multi-day juice programmes delivered to your door.
  • Maria do Bairro. A Lisbon detox delivery brand, ordered online.

The honest split is convenience against proximity. If what you want is a multi-day programme that arrives at your door and nothing else, the delivery-only brands are built around exactly that job. Aura's trade is the other way round: a counter you can walk into for a single €7 bottle, juice pressed the same morning you drink it, and a cleanse that is delivered too — so you can taste a juice before committing to four days of them.

What is specific to Aura is the combination: a functional menu built around adaptogens and named states, with every ingredient listed in full on the bottle and the menu; juices pressed daily in-store on a hydraulic press; returnable glass bottles tied to a loyalty programme instead of single-use plastic; and 1, 2, and 4-day cleanse programs delivered to Lisbon and Porto.

Juice cleanses, delivered to Lisbon and Porto

For a structured reset, Aura's 1, 2, and 4-day juice cleanse programs carry the same six cold-pressed bottles every day — IGNITE, RAW, BALANCE, SERENITY, VIBRANCE and the SUNNY SHOT — at €25 for one day, €48 for two and €96 for four. Roughly every two hours, in this order:

  • 08:00 · IGNITE
  • 10:00 · RAW
  • 12:00 · BALANCE
  • 14:00 · SERENITY
  • 16:00 · VIBRANCE
  • 18:00 · SUNNY SHOT

The order is flexible, and the juice is pressed the morning of delivery rather than the morning you drink it — the 4-day arrives in two drops for that reason. The detox juice guide covers what a cleanse does and doesn't do, and the blog walks through how a 1, 2 or 4-day cleanse actually runs.

Delivery & hours

Single bottles are delivered on Uber Eats from the Campo de Ourique flagship, the one Aura location with an Uber Eats listing. Cleanse orders are delivered to Lisbon and Porto addresses the evening before your start date, chilled and in returnable glass, with the delivery window sent by SMS on the day; the 4-day arrives in two deliveries for maximum freshness. Delivery is €5, and free on the 4-day. Empty bottles go back to any Aura counter for loyalty points — 50 per glass, plus a 200-point bonus for a full returned set.

The Campo de Ourique flagship is open Tuesday to Friday, 08:00–20:00, and Saturday, 09:00–19:00; it is closed Sunday and Monday, when the kitchen presses and preps. The Santos, Campolide and Porto counters follow their studios' timetables — Monday to Friday 07:00–21:00, and 08:00–18:00 at weekends. Current hours for every location are kept up to date on the locations page.

Common questions

Where can I get cold-pressed juice in Lisbon?
Aura Wellness Bar presses its juices fresh daily in Lisbon — available at the Campo de Ourique flagship (R. Domingos Sequeira 11A), at its counters in Santos (inside MVMT Studio) and Campolide (inside Fine Club), and for delivery on Uber Eats from the Campo de Ourique store. Juices are €7–8 and the SUNNY SHOT is €4.
What is the best juice bar in Lisbon?
Lisbon has several good juice spots — Levantino (a fresh juice bar), YAO Pressed Juicery, and Liquid are all real options — so the honest answer depends on what you're after. Aura Wellness Bar is the pick if you want a functional, adaptogen-led menu with every ingredient listed in full, juice pressed daily in-store on a hydraulic press, returnable glass bottles tied to a loyalty programme, and cleanse delivery to Lisbon and Porto.
What is the difference between cold-pressed and regular juice?
Cold-pressed juice is extracted with a hydraulic press that grinds produce to a pulp and then squeezes it between two plates under high pressure, while regular juice is usually made with a centrifugal juicer whose fast-spinning blade generates friction heat and pulls in air. Because pressing adds no process heat and far less oxygen, heat-sensitive nutrients like vitamin C and the more delicate polyphenols are better preserved. The "cold" in cold-pressed refers to that absence of process heat, not to refrigeration.
How long does cold-pressed juice keep?
About 72 hours, refrigerated at 4°C or below in a sealed bottle — and it is best on day one. Unpasteurized cold-pressed juice has nothing in it to stop the clock: vitamin C and the more delicate polyphenols decline steadily from the moment of pressing, whichever machine did the pressing. Aura's juices are pressed on the hydraulic press in the Campo de Ourique store and sold or delivered the same day, so a bottle you buy has the full window ahead of it.
Is cold-pressed juice healthier than a smoothie?
Neither is healthier — they do different jobs. A press removes the fibre, so a juice carries the micronutrients of more produce than you would chew, absorbed quickly and satiating little. A blender keeps the fibre, so a smoothie behaves like a meal: fuller for longer, with sugar arriving more slowly. A crossover study in The Lancet compared whole apples, apple purée and apple juice at identical sugar content and found that removing the fibre made the insulin response markedly steeper and left people measurably less satiated (Haber et al., The Lancet, 1977 · DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(77)90494-9). A reasonable default: juice between meals, a smoothie instead of one.
How much does cold-pressed juice cost at Aura in Lisbon?
RAW, BALANCE, SERENITY and VIBRANCE are €7 a bottle, IGNITE is €8, and the 60ml SUNNY SHOT is €4. A cleanse day works out at €24–25: €25 for the 1-day, €48 for the 2-day and €96 for the 4-day, and each day is the same set of six: IGNITE, RAW, BALANCE, SERENITY, VIBRANCE and the SUNNY SHOT. Delivery is €5 on the 1- and 2-day and free on the 4-day.
Can I get cold-pressed juice delivered in Lisbon?
Yes — single juices are delivered from Aura's Campo de Ourique store on Uber Eats, and 1, 2, and 4-day cleanse programs are delivered to Lisbon and Porto addresses from €24 a day, six bottles per day: IGNITE, RAW, BALANCE, SERENITY, VIBRANCE and the SUNNY SHOT. The bottles arrive chilled the evening before your start date, in returnable glass; delivery is €5, and free on the 4-day.
Is cold-pressed juice fresh or frozen?
Aura's is fresh: pressed on a hydraulic press in the Campo de Ourique store the morning it is sold or delivered, bottled in glass, and never pasteurized — no preservatives, no concentrates. That is why it keeps for about 72 hours at 4°C or below rather than for weeks; a bottle sold as cold-pressed with a multi-week date has usually been high-pressure processed (HPP) or pasteurised instead.
Should I order juice delivery or buy it in store in Lisbon?
It depends on the job. If you want a multi-day programme delivered and would rather not visit a shop at all, a detox brand built around door-delivered programmes — The Detox Company, for one — is made for exactly that. If you want a single bottle today at €7, want to taste one before committing to four days of them, or want it pressed the same morning you drink it, a walk-in counter wins — Aura presses daily at R. Domingos Sequeira 11A in Campo de Ourique and also delivers 1, 2, and 4-day cleanses to Lisbon and Porto.
Which juice is best for a detox?
No juice detoxes you on its own — that work is done by your liver and kidneys. What a green juice like Aura's RAW (spinach, cucumber, celery, lemon, ginger, microgreens) does is support that process: it hydrates, replaces electrolytes, and delivers concentrated micronutrients with very little sugar, which is why it anchors Aura's multi-day cleanse programs alongside IGNITE, the fully vegetable press.

Updated September 2026 · Prices and hours checked against the in-store wellness bar menu, the cleanse catalog, and the locations page. Research citations link to the papers themselves.