What fresh juices should I try in Morocco?

Morocco might be the easiest country in the world to fall in love with fresh juice, and it starts with oranges. The country grows mountains of them, so freshly-squeezed orange juice is everywhere and almost absurdly cheap — nowhere more famously than the row of juice carts on Jemaa el-Fnaa in Marrakech, where vendors press glass after glass for a handful of dirhams. On a hot afternoon, sweet and pulpy and ice-cold, it's perfect.

But oranges are just the beginning. My absolute favourite is the avocado juice — really a thick, creamy shake of ripe avocado blended with milk, a little sugar and often a scatter of chopped almonds or walnuts on top, sometimes layered with date and almond into the famous 'jus panaché'. It's silky, nutty and astonishingly filling; one glass is practically breakfast.

When the seasons turn, the menu changes with them. Autumn brings glorious deep-crimson pomegranate juice, tart and jewel-bright, pressed from fruit at its peak. You'll also find sugarcane juice crushed through a hand-cranked press, banana-and-milk shakes, panaché mixes of several fruits in one glass, and — if you're adventurous — the juice of the prickly pear cactus fruit (karmous nssara), sold from carts in summer, mild and refreshing.

My advice is simple: drink widely and watch it being made. Choose busy stalls with high turnover so everything is fresh, ask for 'bla sukkar' (no sugar) if you prefer it less sweet, and treat the avocado shake and the pomegranate juice as things you can't leave Morocco without trying. They cost almost nothing and they're one of the great everyday joys of travelling here.