Smoothie

Fancy a smoothie?

I’m not being fresh. The only fresh thing about a smoothie is the blend of natural ingredients that goes into making it. You have two options to choose if you want to delicious fresh Smoothie. The first is to pop to your nearest juice bar to order something off the menu. This way you are guaranteed to enjoy a gorgeous glass of fresh fruits mixed with frozen yoghurt. The other option is to make smoothies at home and this tends to be bags of fun.

What will you need to make the perfect smoothie? You’ll need a few core ingredients, plus a machine that can blend the smoothie. Where can you buy the best ingredients? Specialist suppliers that sell everything you need to make great tasting blends.

Start making smoothies

To begin buy a blender or a purpose made smoothie maker which is actually a blender that has a tap fitted to it. Pour some fruit juice into the blender; pick any flavour that you like. Then add your favourite fruit and blend until you have the perfect consistency. Thicken the mix with frozen yoghurt if you want, it produces the smoothest of smoothies. You can add ice to make it colder during the mixing stage, and some people pop frozen fruit into the smoothie to keep the liquid cool.

Play around with the smoothie maker trying out different blends and you’ll discover your personal favourites. It’s easy as anything to make a great tasting smoothie, and the drink is full of natural goodness.

How healthy is a smoothie?

In two words – extremely healthy! Remember, if you make smoothies at home you have complete control of the ingredients that you put into them. Think of adding tasty fruits like strawberries, peaches, oranges, raspberries or pineapple into your smoothie. Some people add other healthy ingredients like wheat-germ into the mix and this becomes a delicious and nutritious drink.

Instead of having cereal or toast for breakfast, try a scrummy smoothie instead. It has great health benefits, tastes blinking brilliant and starts your day in such a delicious type of way.