Sunday, December 8, 2013

Smoothies

Michigan is a great place to live to get fruit most of the year. I bought a Nutribullet to create some smoothies. I've been able to get 2 pounds of strawberries for $5 or $6 all year, along with pints of raspberries and blueberries.  I use 1 pound of strawberries, 2 bananas, 1/4 cup of almonds.
I haven't been doing the tomato and green smoothies yet.
Good for these reasons.
Flavonoids are a class of polyphenols. They include the following subclasses:
  • Anthocyanidins—In blueberries, red wine, and strawberries.
  • Flavan-3-ols—In apples, black tea, blueberries, chocolate, and red wine.
  • Flavanones—In citrus fruit and juices and herbal tea.
  • Flavones—In celery, garlic, green peppers, and herbal tea.
  • Flavonols—In blueberries, garlic, kale, onions, spinach, tea, broccoli, red wine, and cherry tomatoes.
  • Proanthocyanidins—In apples, black tea, blueberries, chocolate, mixed nuts, peanuts, red wine, strawberries, and walnuts.
  • Isoflavones—In soy products and peanuts. 
Strawberries and blueberries alone turn into a gel but adding a banana keeps it liquid.

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