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Liz Earle is a great advertisement for 'juicing'. At 50, the beauty expert is bright-eyed and satin-skinned, not with the faux-youthful tautness of Botox and surgery - she has some soft wrinkles - just undeniably radiant.
Of course, this may be in part down to her bestselling line of beauty products. Avon, to whom she sold the Liz Earle skincare and cosmetics company four years ago, would presumably say so.
But Earle herself is insistent that what goes in to the body is even more important than what goes on its surface. The often quoted truism that 60pc of what we put on our skin is absorbed "is complete nonsense", she tells me, with a roll of her eyes. Juicing, on the other hand, she explains "is great for skin - things like grapes, cherries, olive oil and avocado".
Wouldn't it be better to eat these things whole, I wonder. But according to Earle, juice is a great way to get an intense hit of nutrition. Plus, it is adaptable, and by blending fruits and vegetables with powdered additives like spirulina (a high-protein algae) as well as oils "you can… make your own vitamin supplements, essentially". What about the roughage? "You can stir some of the pulp back into the juice, or add it to soups. Plus, it makes great compost."
All of which might sound a bit worthy were we not having our discussion in Morton's Club in London's Belgravia, a Georgian town house that feels more drinking den than detox destination. Earle, for all her clean-living image, chose the club for the launch of her new book called, simply, Juice, an update of her 1990s bible on the subject. But then, she is far from a hair-shirt and hamster-food fanatic. As the waiters lay out wine glasses as well as tumblers for the inevitable juice, she admits, giggling: "I was macrobiotic, vegan and teetotal for a while. It's a pretty fast way to lose a social life."
Earle was brought up in the era of Angel Delight and Kia-Ora, with a mother who cooked "simply but well". But her father, a naval admiral, was a keen vegetable gardener, so there was always ultra-fresh produce. Her original career was as a health and beauty journalist, appearing on daytime television as a beauty guru, but always emphasising that being healthy and looking well went together.
An interest in the micronutrients led to her consulting a roster of scientists for nutritional information and writing a pioneering consumer guide to antioxidants, Vital Oils, 25 years ago, at a time when fatty acids sounded more like indigestion than nutrition to most of us.
Then, in 1995, she set up her eponymous beauty product company, rumoured to be worth a seven-figure sum when sold in 2010. Letting go, she says, has given her time to return to her writing roots, as well as concentrate on her new website, Liz Earle Wellbeing (lizearlewellbeing.com).
For the past 13 years, she has lived her wellbeing dream on an organic farm in the West Country with her five children and her husband, film-maker Patrick Drummond. The children range from 23 to four (juice or no, conceiving and bearing a son at 47 says something for Earle's health).
"My little one was a surprise. I thought he might have been the menopause but no… My mother calls him my autumn leaf," she laughs.
A waiter bustles over to hand us glasses of thick, deep-green kale juice. Clearly, when Earle talks juice, she doesn't mean cartons of OJ from the supermarket and certainly not the so-called "juice drinks" which often contain no more than a splash of juice in a bottle of sugar-water. "That is not juice," she says, recalling her previous campaigns against misleading labelling.
Juicing, for Earle, is about the homemade stuff, using fresh ingredients and ideally mostly vegetables, since fruits like oranges and apples are high in fruit sugar, fructose, which causes many of the same problems as regular sucrose, or table sugar: weight gain and blood-sugar spikes (related to the onset of type 2 diabetes), not to mention tooth decay.
My juice tastes good, so full of pulp, it is practically a smoothie.
"I like juice you can chew," Earle insists. "It's very important not to gulp it."
I try to hide my glass, which I've emptied in two swigs.
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