What is Kava Juice?
The term kava juice most certainly originated in Vanuatu. Normally we would think of juice as something sweet and savory to be enjoyed with a meal, usually in the morning as is the case of orange juice. Juice is defined as the fluid naturally contained in plant tissue. Thus, kava juice is exactly what it sounds to be, juice from the kava plant. In Vanuatu, kava root is usually harvested while it is alive and “green”. This kava root is cleaned up and prepared to be consumed that evening. After the kava root is pounded into a pulp the juices are literally squeezed from within the root and saved to be drunk in the nakamal at dusk. The drinking of green kava appears to be unique to the Republic of Vanuatu. In other island nations such as Fiji, Samoa, and Tonga the kava root is dried and ground before it is made into a kava drink. The taste of green kava juice is much different than that of kava juice made from dried root. The taste of the fresh, green kava is much more pleasant than that o
