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By Navdeep Kathuria |
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Satisfying your Daily Fruit Requirements with Smoothies
As a busy professional, it’s difficult to
ensure that you have a balanced diet. This month, we focus on one
type of food that is easy to overlook—fruit! If you take a look
at MyPyramid, the most recent health guide the United States Department
of Agriculture (USDA) has put out regarding servings and exercise,
you will see that you are supposed to eat two cups of fruit each day.
I have found that a fun way to make sure you get your fruit servings
while staying well-hydrated in the summer and having fun in the kitchen
is to experiment with smoothies.
Here are a few fruit smoothie recipes, just in time
for the summer months! These recipes are meant for one person, but
they will have you refilling your glass! The larger amount allows
you to get all the fruit you need. Plus, the smoothie will be so good
that you’ll want to go back for more!
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Strawberry-Banana Smoothie
Makes 2 ½ cups
This smoothie is a refreshing summer drink, perfect
after a long evening stuck in traffic!
Ingredients:
1 cup of strawberries
1 banana
2/3 cup orange juice
5 cubes of ice
Instructions:
1. Cut off the stems of the strawberries.
2. Remove banana from peel.
3. Combine ice, strawberries, banana and orange
juice (in that order) in a blender.
4. Blend well.
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Tip: For variety,
after blending, try adding a few remaining strawberries and
only blend a little more so there are small pieces of strawberry
in your smoothie. The whole pieces of strawberry make for a
delicious surprise inside the smoothie! |
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| Thick Mango Smoothie
Makes 2 cups
Let’s face it—South Asians love mangoes.
Here is a delightful mango drink that will take you back to India.
Ingredients:
1 mango
½ cup blackberries
1 cup mango juice
1 cup orange juice
4 cubes of ice
Instructions:
1. Remove the skin from the mango and discard the
seed.
2. Combine ice, mango, blackberries, mango juice
and orange juice (in that order) into a blender.
3. Blend well.
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Strawberry-Orange-Mango Delight
Makes 3 cups
A rule of thumb for coming up with a well-flavored smoothie is to
check out the fruit drinks at your grocery store. If you see flavors
paired together in a fruit drink, they’ll probably make a good
set of fruits to combine for your smoothie too. The Strawberry-Orange-Mango
Delight proves my theory.
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Ingredients:
2 cups of strawberries
1 cup orange juice
1 cup mango juice
2 ice cubes
Instructions:
1. Cut off the stems of the strawberries.
2. Remove the skin from the mango and discard the seed.
3. Combine ice, strawberries, orange juice and mango juice (in that
order) in a blender.
4. Blend well.
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Navdeep Kathuria is the Editor-in-Chief of ABCDlady and enjoys trying to come up with the perfect smoothie recipe.
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