Meet the Krew at Keva Cottonwood

This month’s “Keva Spotlight” is Keva Cottonwood! This month our Krew Members decided to share a little bit of their personal experience with you. One of our main goals at Keva Juice is to make your experience as personal as possible. Check out Keva Cottonwood’s Krew: do you recognize the Smoothie Maker who prepared your last Keva Juice?





“Keva Juice! Fast, Fresh, and Filling! Keva Juice is a great place to work, the people are nice and smoothies... Who doesn’t like a good smoothie! I have worked there for almost 3 years and it has been a great experience. I have learned a lot including some funny Keva Lingo- Blendsational, Kevalicious, and Bananaramarific! There have been a lot of fun times, once I was closing and the person I was closing with and I were singing and dancing to a song, well little did I know that a customer had been watching me the entire time! He came in and made sure to let me know that he had seen the whole show! LOL, but the funniest part is that next Sunday I was working and he came in again and recognized me! Oh good times good times :)” –Jordyn

“Keva Juice is my first, and probably one of the best and most laid-back jobs I’ll ever have. I really enjoy working with all of the people and giving the customers what they want.” -Joe

“I have worked at Keva Juice for a while now and I really enjoy working here because of the friendly, laid-back atmosphere and the people that I work with. The drinks that we make at Keva are delicious, and the variety never leaves you bored. There is something for everyone to enjoy.” – Jaiden

“When you come into Keva Cottonwood, the first question we'll ask you is what your name is. While this question is often met with confused looks and a general sense of puzzlement, we ask it for a reason! Of course, there's the practical reason: we need your name to distinguish your drink from everyone else's when our store's getting a lot of business (which is a pretty frequent occurrence)! But, beyond simply helping you identify your drink, providing us with your name gives us a better connection to you as a customer. By asking for your name, we're able to know a little bit more about you, our awesome customer!

So next time you come into Keva Cottonwood after one of your busy Saturday errand trips, whether you tell us your name is "Buzz Light-year" or "Rachel", we'll be able to make your experience a little bit better.

Thanks for buying our smoothies!” -Chet

“Keva juice is a great place to work! The people that you work with are friendly, everyone is nice to everyone, and say you need a shift covered or a day off all you have to do is text someone and they usually say yes because we want the hours! LOL! I also like it because of the environment, no matter what there's always a good atmosphere, and I love that. It’s just a fun place to work at, and it’s always a good place to get a smoothie.” -Matt

“What I love about Keva Juice are the people. We all get along really well and everyone has a good time even though we're working. It makes a good job even better when you’re always around friends.” -Shaelee

“Don't forget Keva Juice is always open to new drink ideas. If you want to add or take out a fruit or juice in your smoothie, don't be timid to ask an employee. We're here to make your Keva experience enjoyable. As for the working environment, I couldn't ask for a cooler job. It has been easy to make a great relationship with the managers, and fellow employees are hilarious. Everyone always has a fun time when they work. We make the most out of what we do, and have a blendsational time doing it.” -Jade

Join Us For a Hot Cup of Anitoxidants

We have all been hearing for some time now that antioxidants are a really important and healthy addition to our daily diet. But if you’re like me, though you jump at the opportunity to add any food, beverage or vitamin that claims antioxidant power to your diet, you don’t quite know what all the hype is about. For your benefit (and mine), here’s a brief lesson on why antioxidants are so important.

First, it would probably be important to know why it is that we need antioxidants in the first place. After doing some research, I found that it all starts with the naturally occurring process of oxidation. Here is a quick overview of what that process is and why as a result antioxidants have become so important to us.

"Oxidation is a normal process that takes place in the body. It causes damage to our cells, and it's believed that this cumulative damage is what causes aging and eventually death. It happens as a result of regular metabolism, but is accelerated by pollution, excessive exposure to sunlight, alcohol and smoking. A free radical is a charged atom or a piece of a molecule. In order to re-establish its own stability, a free radical looks to steal an electron from its surroundings. This usually means from one of your own healthy cells. You end up with a little bit of DNA damage, or a protein becomes dysfunctional. It may not seem like much, but all these little damages add up. Antioxidants are chemicals that generously offer up their own electrons to the free radicals, thus sparing you the cellular damage. Every time they neutralize a free radical, the antioxidant loses an electron and stops being able to function as an antioxidant. This is why you must continually resupply your body with the vitamins and other chemicals that act as antioxidants."

Ok, so now that we know how important they are, Where Can We Find Them?

• Vitamins C and E
• Beta-Carotin
• Selenium
• Nuts
• Fruits
• Vegetables
• Meats
• *Tea

For our discussion today- we will now focus on Tea. The specific kinds of antioxidants found in tea are called phenols, and they can also be found in a variety of berries and grapes. A growing body of research indicates that the tannins in tea are naturally-occurring flavonoids which have strong antioxidant properties. Drinking tea is a natural and pleasant way to increase dietary intake of antioxidants. Researchers indicated that it doesnt' matter if you choose black or green tea and that adding milk to tea, does not inhibit the body's ability to benefit from the antioxidants. Research suggests these phytonutrients may contribute substantially to the promotion of health and the prevention of chronic disease. For example, the antioxidants in tea may inhibit the growth of cancer cells and even support cardiovascular health!

82-year-old John Weisburger, PhD, senior researcher at the Institute for Cancer Prevention in Valhalla, N.Y. has the following to say about including tea as an antioxidant enhancing element into your diet. “Whether it's green or black, tea has about eight to 10 times the polyphenols found in fruits and vegetables. In my lab, we found that green and black tea had identical amounts of polyphenols. We found that both types of tea blocked DNA damage associated with tobacco and other toxic chemicals. In animal studies, tea-drinking rats have less cancer." For comparisons sake look at the world's big tea drinkers, like Japan and China. "They have much less heart disease and don't have certain cancers that we in the Western world suffer," says Weisburger.

So… You should think about heading in to your closest Keva Juice for a Hot Cup of Antioxidants today!

Information for the above post borrowed from the following sites:

http://www.cookscorner.net/Tea/Antioxidants.html

http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/antioxidants-in-green-and-black-tea

http://coffeetea.about.com/library/weekly/aa012303antioxidants.htm

Meet Keva Academy

Posted by: Dylan Waters
Keva Academy is located on Academy and Wyoming in the Northeast Heights. Keva Academy is a hot spot for students to pick up a healthy after school snack and socialize with friends. With the jogging trails around the Albuquerque Academy, Keva Academy has become the best end point to pick up a smoothie with an added protein scoop to finish off a great workout. Our crew has become very close with our regular customers and is always happy to help first-timers make a selection that fits them best. We’re happy to be going through winter with a new hot selection of drinks. Between our new Keva Kokos and Teas, Keva Juice now has the perfect healthy ways to warm you up this winter! Don’t forget to come in and pick up Keva Gift Cards for Valentine’s Day gifts. Trade out that chocolate and candy for a healthy and delicious Keva smoothie, give your love the gift of health!

Supporting our Krew

Kevin Herig, Krew member of Keva Cutler is also part of a local band, Asper Kourt. Herig is the bands singer/song writer and has been playing music for 10+ years. We like to support the many talents and hobbies of our Krew so here is a preview of Asper Kourt performing at a recent Albuquerque show.

Asper Kourt- "Firefly" Live at Sunshine Theater, Dec. 2009

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Asper Kourt performs their new song, 'Firefly', for the first time at 100.3 The Peak's Acoustic Christmas Show with Five for Fighting and Uncle Kracker!

If you will be traveling Delta Airlines during January or February check out the the band's song "Take Me" which was selected by Delta to be played during their flights! Find out more about Asper Kourt at http://asperkourt.com/, http://www.myspace.com/asperkourt or http://www.facebook.com/asper.kourt

Meet the Krew

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL! Each month of the new year we will be spotlighting one of our Keva Locations to give you a chance to get to know your personal Keva Krew. This month we will be meeting Keva Cutler!

Post By: Randi Valdez, Island Chief

Keva Cutler located just off of I-25 and San Mateo, has big stomping grounds being the first store of Keva Juice. Keva Cutler sees multiple regulars whether its for a breakfast quick stop before work, lunch or dinner meal replacements or an after the gym protein smoothie. The krew is full of energy, enthusiasm, and doing whats best to serve our customers daily. Customers are always happy with our customer service and keep coming back. Our service is outstanding and shows in the response from our customers and the smiles we see.


Our krew consists of band members, artists, athletes and students. Sam Dalton gets his chance once a month to display his art on our monthly boards that always receive complements daily from regular and new customers. Keva Juice and its products give our public a great option for a healthier choice. The increase in products I have seen in the last 2 years has invited a lot more customers who are diabetic, lactose intolerant, and resetting their diets for weight loss with the Acai products. Keva Cutler and the krew keeps our environment a blendsational place to be for all ages.

Give the Gift of Health

A Keva Juice Gift Card is the PERFECT Stocking Stuffer!

Just one day left to pick up your Keva Juice Gift Cards! Take advantage of our "Give the Gift of Health Month" promotion: for every $25 you put on a gift card, receive a $5 gift certificate.

Want to Get Healthy in 2010???
Give someone special the perfect tool to jump start their New Year's Resolution!

Come visit your neighborhood Keva Juice for more information on the health benefits of our smoothies!

All locations open until 4 pm December 24th. Promotion runs through December 31, 2009!

Two Leaves and a Bud

If you need something to warm you up this holiday season, you've come to the right place! Starting this week your local Keva Juice store will be carrying hot tea by Two Leaves and a Bud Tea Company! We are very happy to offer you a variety of hot tea to keep you warm during these chilly days. The following assortment will be available to you:

Assam - Organic Breakfast Tea
Earl Grey - Organic Full-Leaf Ceylon Tea & Bergamot
Tamayokucha - Extremely Green Tea
Jasmine Petal - Classic Chinese Green Tea dried with Jasmine Petals
African Sunset - Organic Red Tea (Rooibos) with Lemon grass
Peppermint - Simply Organic Peppermint Leaves

We hope you enjoy this new Keva offering! Happy Holidays!