Saturday, July 3, 2010

Fruit Smoothies

Fruit smoothies are rich of minerals and vitamins which are important for our health. The more common fruits to use are blueberries, strawberries and bananas.


To make banana smoothie, just mix one or two medium bananas (depends on your favorite) with raw nuts, 1 pear and vanilla stevia with half cup of water and blend it. This smoothie is rich of potassium which can help muscles in proper functioning and maintain healthy circulatory systems. It can lower the risk of developing stomach ulcers and regulates the level of acids in stomach. With the high fiber content, it helps in digestion as well. With the high fiber content, it helps in our body digestion.
Blueberry is one of powerful antioxidants. Blueberry can help to slow down aging and promotes brain function. It also helps to boosts up the immune system, prevent urinary tract infections, constipation and cancer. This is due to it contained antibiotic properties, carotenoids, flavonoids, vitamins, phosphorus, selenium and zinc. You can try to blend one cup of blueberries and one banana, lemon juice, one cup of ice cubes and water to achieve these benefits.

Strawberry has no cholesterol and sodium and is very low in calories. A mixing smoothie recipe is one cup of strawberries with vanilla stevia, one banana, lemon juice, one cup of ice cubes and water. Strawberry is good for our heart. It regulates and keep normal blood pressure, and lower level of bad cholesterol but raise up the good cholesterol.

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