How To Make A Delicious, Healthy Smoothie

Your smoothies shouldn’t just be delicious mixtures of fruits and veggies. Either its a banana, pineapple or strawberry smoothie with or without yogurt, it should boost your health. The need to stay healthy is becoming a really serious issue as people are passing on younger than they should these days. Healthy eating can prevent many lifestyle related illnesses and help with weight loss.

To make a really healthy and delicious smoothie, recipe with try these four key categories of ingredients.

1.    Greens

This is a key part of your smoothie. Green vegetables are super super healthy. Many are rich in fiber and fiber is the most important part of a balanced diet. Your smoothie should contain a green veggie like Cucumber, Lettuce, Kyle, Moringa, Spinach, Cabbage, 'Ugwu', Broccoli. Choose one or two of these options or research to discover more greens. Greens reduce cholesterol, heart disease and cancer. They improve immunity detoxify the body etc. My favourite green is cucumber since it contains a lot of water and doesn’t taste so bad.

2.    The Condition/Deficiency Manager 

If you have a health condition or have a deficiency of some specific nutrients, here’s your chance to make up for it through a supplementary fruit or vegetable in your smoothie. For instance, I wear glasses and tend to have cold so Vitamin A and C are my friends. What’s your condition? Do some research to find out what smoothie ingredient will help you manage it.

3.   Vitamin E 

I wouldn’t tell a woman to make a smoothie without some fruits or veggies containing Vitamin E. They help put our reproduction system in order. Fibroid, irregular period, fertility etc can be managed by Vitamin E. So add some avocado, almond, paw paw and spinach to your smoothie.

4.    Your favourite fruit  

  At this stage you deserve a reward for being so health conscious and you ought to make your smoothie as enjoyable as possible. So pick any fruit you like that can improve the taste of your smoothie especially if your other ingredients aren’t so tasty. For instance, I like bananas so at this stage this will be my option. Some people also want something sour or thingy so they don’t feel the urge to throw up, in that case, you can try some lemon or lime.

-You can also add juice, yogurt and nuts to your smoothie and even dark chocolate but it is important to ensure that your smoothie is not too sweet. That won’t help your blood sugar. When you choose your ingredients consider that.

-Finally, to always enjoy your fruit as often as possible, even on the go or when there’s power failure (if you live in Nigeria) get a usb powered blender.

Hope that was helpful?

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