What you need for a perfect smoothie

Bear in mind that a juice and a smoothie are 2 different things. You make a smoothie with a blender, and a juice with a juice extractor. It’s a bit more difficult to blend apples for example, but you can blend pineapples, mangos, cucumbers, melon, etc. Here is another example, you can’t juice a banana, it’s way to soft and you wouldn’t get any juice out of it.

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1. Start with a base

• Water

• Coconut water

• Plant milk (unsweetened of course)

• Chilled tea or herbal infusion

2. Choose your fruit

• Bananas (the riper the better)

• Berries

• Cherries

• Mango

• Kiwi

• Papaya

• Orange

• Peaches

3. Choose your vegetable

• Spinach

• Kale

• Cucumber

• Courgette

4. Choose boosters & flavourings – in the blender

• Dry spices (cinnamon, ginger, cardamon, turmeric)

• Fresh herbs (parsley, coriander)

• Fresh ginger

• Fresh turmeric

• Seeds (flax seeds, chia seeds)

• Maca Powder

• Spirulina, etc.

5. Add a healthy fat (but you don’t have to) – in the blender

• Coconut oil

• Flax oil 

6. Make it thicker (again, optional) – in the blender

• Nut butter

• Chia seeds

• Flax seeds

• Rolled oats

• Greek yogurt

• Avocado

7. Add an extra sweetener (optional obviously)

• Medjool dates (or just soft dates)

• Raw honey

• Pure maple syrup

Here is a tip : Add a few ice cubes or frozen fruits (berries for example), it makes the smoothies much creamier!