Fruit Juice Smoothies: The Sweet Benefits We Deserve.
Fruit smoothies are packed with many vitamins and minerals your body needs on a daily basis to stay healthy. Fruit juice smoothies contains potassium and other essential minerals.
Citrus fruits such as grape fruits, oranges, tangerines, and lemons contain good amounts of vitamin C. Vitamin C helps your immune system. Potassium helps your heart to function and helps you to maintain a normal blood pressure.
Blue berries, strawberries, blackberries, raspberries, cranberries and grapes contain antioxidants that helps decrease inflammation.
Papaya, kiwi, fruit, pineapple, avocado, coconut, pomegranate, bananas, and mango have sources of vitamin C, potassium, folate and manganese to keep your bones, blood sugar, thyroid glands and nerves healthy. Drinking fruit smoothies can help you reach the reccomended intake of fiber.
How to create your own smoothie- choose a base you like. You can add water, cow's milk, soy milk or yogurt to the fruit to add bulk to your smoothie. The healthier options are water,low fat milk, or low fat yogurt. The water will provide your body with the fluid that is necessary for metabolism of food and transportation of nutrients. ( healthyeating.sfgate.com.
Try it yourself I challenge you to make your own smoothie, get some fresh fruits, choose your base and go for it. Have fun. Thanks for reading, talk to you soon.🙂