Are you a regular smoothie maker? Do you own a VitaMix or other high speed blender?
My friends and I were fortunate enough to be invited over to Kim’s house (there she is below), for, amongst other things, a special demonstration of food preparation with the VitaMix. It was so much fun and I learned so much, so of course, I want to share it with you. Thanks Kim and Teri!
I’m going to start out with smoothie tips.
Tip #2: Along the same lines as tip #1, load your blender from soft to hard: soft ingredients at the bottom up to harder ingredients at the top.
Tip #3: Leave the seeds in and the stems on. Ex. Strawberry stems and carrot stems, cantaloupe seeds, grape seeds (think resveratrol), the pith and seeds of an orange, pineapple cores (okay, that’s not a seed or stem, but you get the picture–lots and lots of fiber). We throw out a lot of the nutrition in our food that in a blender becomes indistinguishable!
Tip #4: But not the seeds of an apple . . . they contain arsenic!
Tip #5: Even the little nub end of the banana–it contains the seeds of the banana, and thus the most nutrition!
Super great smoothie tips! Especially the ice tip. And a small confession: I use my Vitamix four times everyday. Obsessed.
I have a smoothie every morning with some fruit and lots of greens! I even add some cacao nibs when I want a 'chocolate' smoothie. Ginger and cinnamon sticks also create some excitement!
Thanks for the tips, especially soft to hard.
I make a spinach-banana smoothie every morning, veggies mixed with V-8 sometimes in afternoons, and family loves frozen fruit "ice cream" for dessert. Fresh ginger, cinnamon, cored apple, stevia, blackstrap molasses & yoghurt makes what I call a gingerbread smoothie. Would love to have a travel size Vitamixer to fit in suitcase!
I dream of having a Vitamix! One day…
Thank you! Jen, I am making your gingerbread smoothie right now, even though I don't have a Vitamix yet.
Love my vitamix! I really need to get back on drinking smoothies! Thanks for all the tips!
Cyanide. Apple seeds contain cyanide.
Cyanide is a B vitamin that is very valuable for stopping tumors. cyanide is not deadly in the small dose from up to maybe the seeds of 6 apples a day.