Recipe: Create Nutritional Balance by Evolving Your Smoothie

 
 
 
 
You can get more lifeforce and flavor out of your smoothie, by evolving your recipe over time. You can become leaner and more energized by discovering all the terrific things your blender can do for you!

Okay, so you’ve started drinking green smoothies, and you’ve begun to find a balance of fruit and vegetables that your taste buds eagerly welcome each morning. You’ve even probably started to notice improvements in your mood, energy level and general well-being.

by mixing your greens, you will not let
the alkaloids build up in your system”

Basically, green smoothes are awesome and you know it — so what else can you get out of them?

As your health and vitality improve, it’s time to develop your recipe further to increase the positive results by fine-tuning your nutrition.
 

The Three Green Smoothie Nutrients

You want to make sure that your smoothie has the following key ingredients:

1. Protein: sprouted seeds, raw nuts, dark greens and vegetable powders
2. Carbohydrates: fruits are a good source of carbs
3. Fats: ingredients that our high in fat include avocados, coconut, chia and flaxseeds

You need all three of the above nutritional categories, but how much of all three depends on you and your needs and your unique metabolic type (some people handle carbs better than most, while there are other people who thrive with higher protein and fat).
 

Finding Your Recipe

Fad diets will tell you to avoid carbohydrates but complex carbs can be an essential high-octane fuel and very desirable for your body (especially on days you exercise). If you are just starting out with Green Smoothies you’ll probably want more carbs. For beginners, carbs often come from fruit. For advanced blenders, carbs tend to come more often from vegetables — such as spinach, kale, or cucumber.

Protein comes in all sorts of forms, you can get a vegetable protein powder or a hemp protein powder and add a couple of tablespoons to your smoothie to help give you strength and repair tissues.

Fats will help you to feel full and satisfied after a smoothie, and help the smoothie to give you a sustained energy for hours.
 
 

Rotate Your Greens

The challenge is to try to add as many leafy green vegetables into your smoothie as you can, while still enjoying the flavor and texture. However, it’s also a good idea to rotate your greens.

Plants need their leaves to survive but are constantly losing their leaves because animals eat them. To put animals off their leaves, the plants protect themselves by mixing all that nourishment with small amounts of alkaloids — which can be a sort of poison. But by mixing your greens, you will not let the alkaloids build up in your system (in nature, animals like chimpanzees will constantly mix their greens by picking at different plants). The same can be said for nuts and seeds, and some nutritionists believe that sprouted seeds are better in this regard.

But perhaps the best reason to have several different smoothie recipes that you’re always improving and evolving, is that it will keep blending fun and interesting to you!

It’s really up to you how you find your nutritional balance. There are so many factors that determine how you make your smoothie, such as:

• your physique goals
• any current health challenges you might have
• how much you’re working out
• what your current weight is

For exact measurements, here are some actual green smoothie recipes that can help you feel fantastic!
 
 
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