Are Smoothies Healthy?
The Margaritaville DM2000 can automatically make 1, 2, or 3 smoothies for you. Read about it here.
As summer time warmth comes on, we start dreaming of cool, rich, sweet drinks like smoothies. But do we dare indulge? Are smoothies healthy and balanced? If we stick the proper things in them, they are.
The original smoothie stemmed from Brazil. Contents were soft fruits and ice blended into an icy smooth slush. Smooth is the operant word. A lot of smoothies today are made with some kind of milk. This can be plain milk or soy milk along with soft fruits or fruit juices and, typically but not needed, sweetener. The milks are more commonly thicker: yoghurt, frozen yoghurt, ice milk, or ice cream–or their soy surrogates. The healthiness of these additives depends on whether you are looking for their protein and calcium, or having to stay away from their sweeteners.
Making smoothies healthier without losing their taste is not difficult. The fresh fruits are themselves naturally sweet; no additional sweets are really required–no sugars, milks, or yoghurts. If you use one of the Margaritaville frozen concoction makers for your smoothies maker, you get the amazing smoothness of the wonderfully blended shaved ice mixed with your fruits and so forth. They are creamy without the cream–as smooth as a cafe milkshake–with no calories added for that wonderful texture! As an other choice to a Margaritaville appliance, a blender and a separate ice shaver can offer comparable outcomes with a little extra work.
The nutritional value of a fruit and ice smoothie can be improved by including juices. Hard fruits like apples, pears, the citrus fruits, and often pineapple do not blend particularly well. By having a juicer–an exceptional home style like the Omega VRT330 or the Breville BJE510XL–you can get the juice from those fruits without the lumpy pulp.
Veggies, particularly leafy green veggies, can include a lot of nutrition to your smoothie. Just be a bit mindful. Wheatgrass in particular is an outstanding addition on the vitamins and mineral scale, but a lot of men and women mention that it upsets their stomachs in too sizable a quantity or drunk with a dinner. Go easy when you begin adding veggie juice. Nonetheless, with any of the veggies, the nutrient value skyrockets. Without the pulp, your smoothie is ultra-smooth. With the icy slurry, the often marginally harsh taste of the vegetable-fruit juices is smoothed out. These are the best, most nourishing smoothies you are able to conceive of.
The benefits of juicing surpass just the nutrients. Those nutrients are concentrated–you have actually spun out the extra pulp and kept the good-for-you-stuff. You also have extra time, even when you create a smoothie from the juices–juicing and blending take less time than cooking (and preserve especially the fragile micro-nutrients). Consuming your breakfast or afternoon pick-me-up is quicker, too, than chewing the equivalent volume of fruit or veggies!
Below is a smoothie worth testing:
The Odd Couple Healthy Smoothie. Juice one cut up yam along with a cored Granny Smith apple. Place the liquid, and a dash of nutmeg, cinnamon, or both in your Margaritaville frozen concoction maker. Fill the ice hopper, set to “smoothie,” and push “GO”! In seconds you will have the yummiest, smoothest smoothie you could well ever think of–one full of nutrients, full of taste, but low in calories.
Are smoothies healthy? You can bet your sweet bananas on it!
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