How To Make A Smoothie
I’m going to show you how to make a smoothie in minutes and anyone can learn how to make a smoothie that’s healthy and delicious!
Smoothie recipes can be easily modified to suit your particular taste. In six easy steps, I’m going to show you how to make a smoothie that’s incredibly healthy and easy to make.
1. Choosing a Blender.
The highest quality blenders have between 2 to 3.5 horsepower. These blenders will blend almost anything into a creamy, smooth texture without a hitch. VitaMix and BlendTec are the brands most recommended by professionals, household ones on a budget are Cruisinart, Oster and KitchenAid.
2. Choosing a Smoothie Starter.
Most smoothie recipes call for some amount of liquid to allow the ingredients to move around inside the blender and make your smoothie the right thickness. I’ll show you how to make a smoothie using the right ingredients for your starter – and reveal some ingredients to avoid.
Fruit Juices. You can use any type of juice – orange, apple, grape, pineapple – whatever. Fruit juices should be used in moderation, however – they’re high in fructose. Even though the fructose is natural, consuming large amounts by drinking juice can give you too much sugar all at once.
Avoid highly-processed juices – they’re not the same as fresh-squeezed. Most of these fruit juices are so processed that they only contain a fraction of the nutrients they originally had. You can spot these juices easily because the expiration date is weeks, even months away.
Milk and yogurt are two very popular beverages that people use to make smoothies. However, I think that homogenized and pasteurized dairy products are not a healthy choice.
3. Controlling the Temperature of Your Smoothie.
The colder the ingredients you use, the creamier your smoothie will be. Using frozen fruit also makes it easy to keep an ample supply of fruit on hand in your freezer, to use in making your smoothies.
4. Fruits and Veggies for Your Smoothie.
Almost any combination of fruits or vegetables can be used for your smoothies, depending on the strength of your blender. It’s best to keep the proportion of fruits to vegetables heavier on the vegetables to avoid increasing the sugar content of your smoothies too much.
5. Sweeteners for Your Smoothie.
You can sweeten your healthy smoothie with fresh or frozen fruits, dates and other dried fruits, agave nectar, raw cane sugar, honey, maple syrup, molasses or stevia. Don’t use artificial sweeteners like Nutrasweet or Splenda!
6. Make Your Smoothie into an Antioxidant Powerhouse!
Boost the nutritional value of your healthy smoothie even more by adding protein powder, green superfood powders, superfruit juices, coconut oil and spices like cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg.
Stan Mrak - Author