Create a Healthy
Blackberry Smoothie Recipe

Benefits of a Healthy Fruit Smoothie. A healthy blackberry smoothie recipe will make you one of the most nutritious — and delicious — meals on earth. Healthy fruit smoothies are loaded with phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals and enzymes that come in a whole-food form.

The fruits and vegetable blended together in healthy smoothie recipes provide vitamins, minerals, enzymes and fiber that will do wonders for your health — and build up your body’s defenses against disease.

In addition, when fruits and vegetables are blended, the plant fibers are broken down just like when you chew them; the blender literally does most of the “chewing” for you. And chewing food more thoroughly means that you'll absorb more of the nutrients.

Healthy Smoothies Detoxify Your System. Healthy fruit smoothies retain the fiber from the fruits and the vegetables you use. The fiber works to improve digestion and helps your body naturally rid itself of toxins. Fiber also helps you feel more satisfied, and maintains that feeling longer.

Blackberries Make Great Healthy Smoothies. Berries are just about the best choice for a healthy fruit smoothie. They're high in fiber and low in both calories and sugar. Blackberries have 60 calories in one cup and 6 grams of fiber.

Blackberries don't keep very long, but they're easy to freeze, so you can have some on hand at all times. They do have many tiny seeds that are difficult to break down completely when you make your smoothie; for best results, you'll need to use a high-end blender and run the blackberries through it a little while longer.

Recommended Starter
for Your Blackberry Smoothie Recipe

Many recipes for smoothies call for the use of milk or yogurt. I personally don't recommend the use of dairy products, but I will leave this up to you. I suggest using a nut milk instead, and that's what you'll find in any of the fruit smoothie recipes below. Substitute regular milk or yogurt if you prefer.

Here's my universal recipe for a healthy smoothie starter. This takes just a few minutes and it's ready to go!

Almond Milk Smoothie Starter

Combine the following in your blender:
• 12 oz of water
• 1/3 cup soaked, raw almonds
• 1 tbsp coconut oil
• stevia — sweeten to taste

Blend until smooth and strain through a nylon-mesh nut bag to remove the almond meal.

You can use this as a substitute for milk for all healthy smoothie recipes — or drink it as is. It will only keep for a couple of days, but it's so quick to make, it hardly matters.

About Stevia. If you want to add some type of sweetener to your smoothie recipe, I recommend using stevia.

Stevia is an herbal extract that's 300 times as sweet as sugar. It comes in powder, liquid or tablet form and has no calories. Stevia also does not raise blood sugar levels and is safe for diabetics.

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Chilling Your Blackberry Smoothies

Is there's anything more satisfying than a cold, creamy smoothie? There are two ways of chilling your healthy smoothie recipes:

• Ice Cubes — a good way of thinning down a smoothie that's too thick and chilling it at the same time.

• Frozen Fruit — has the advantage of not diluting the taste, and also giving your healthy smoothies a creamier texture. It's very easy and convenient to create a stash of frozen cut-up fruit, so you always have some on hand.

Optional Ingredients
for Your Blackberry Smoothie Recipe

Optional ingredients for any healthy smoothie recipe that will increase the nutritional value, protein and fiber content of your smoothie include:

Superfoods such as chlorella, spirulina, acai, goji berry and others give your smoothies extraordinary antioxidant content and other nutritional benefits.

Hemp Protein Powder adds protein, healthy omega-3 fats and fiber to your smoothie.

Raw Organic Eggs give your smoothies nature's purest form of complete protein.

Coconut Oil contains about 50 percent lauric acid, a rare medium-chain fatty acid found in mother's milk that has many health-protecting properties. It also gives your healthy smoothie a richer, creamier taste.

Cinnamon, Nutmeg and Cloves have higher concentrations of antioxidants than any fruit or vegetable, and add their warm spiciness to your healthy smoothie recipe.

Blackberry Smoothie Recipes

Start by pouring the liquid ingredients for each smoothie recipe into your blender. Use fresh fruit or frozen.

Add any of the optional ingredients recommended above, if you like — then blend until smooth.

Add more liquid to reduce the thickness, ice to chill it, or more fruit to thicken your blackberry smoothie.

Substitute ingredients at your whim — it's fun to experiment!

Mango Banana Blackberry Smoothie
2/3 cup mango
2/3 cup frozen blackberries
1 ripe banana
1-1/3 cup water
5 ice cubes

Blackberry Strawberry Banana Smoothie
1 fresh or frozen banana
1/2 cup blueberries
1/2 cup strawberries
1 cup almondmilk

Blackberry Banana Smoothie
1 fresh or frozen banana
1 cup frozen blackberries
stevia
1 tsp lemon juice
1 cup water
3-4 ice cubes

Pear Blackberry Banana Smoothie
1/2 pear
1/4 cup frozen blackberries
1 fresh or frozen banana
10 oz almond milk

Pear Blackberry Cashew Smoothie
1 ripe pear
1 cup frozen blackberries
1/8 cup cashews
stevia
1 tsp lemon juice
1 cup water
3-6 ice cubes

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