{"product_id":"green-smoothies-isbn-9781607749387","title":"Green Smoothies","description":"\u003cb\u003eKickstart your metabolism, fire up your mind, and promote whole-body health.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscover the health-boosting benefits of smoothies, juices, tonics, and nut milks. Find the perfect juice to help detoxify your body, enhance your digestion, or invigorate your metabolism.  Energize your day with 66 easy-to-follow, quick, and tasty recipes.  Learn simple ways to incorporate more greens into your diet every day.Introduction  6\u003cbr\u003e Equipment  9\u003cbr\u003e Super Greens  11\u003cbr\u003e Tips for a Juice Detox 17\u003cbr\u003e Seven-Day Green Juice \u003cbr\u003eDetox Plan 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Juices  20\u003cbr\u003e Green Rocket Tonic  22\u003cbr\u003e Dandelion Tonic  24\u003cbr\u003e Insalata  26\u003cbr\u003e Green Giant  28\u003cbr\u003e Grass Energy  30\u003cbr\u003e Summer Fresh  32\u003cbr\u003e Green Pepper  34\u003cbr\u003e Beetroot Beauty  36\u003cbr\u003e Healer  38\u003cbr\u003e Energizer  40\u003cbr\u003e Brussels  42\u003cbr\u003e Brain Juice  44\u003cbr\u003e Popeye’s Juice  46\u003cbr\u003e Fat Burner  48\u003cbr\u003e Digestivo  50\u003cbr\u003e Tomato Lover 52\u003cbr\u003e Berry Infectious  54\u003cbr\u003e Raspberry Mint  56\u003cbr\u003e Strawberry  58\u003cbr\u003e Detoxifier  60\u003cbr\u003e Carrot-ene Healer 62\u003cbr\u003e Cleanser  64\u003cbr\u003e Fennel  66\u003cbr\u003e Purple Ginger  68\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Smoothies  70\u003cbr\u003e Strawberry Joy  72\u003cbr\u003e Smooth Spinach Berry  74\u003cbr\u003e Banana Tonic  76\u003cbr\u003e Tropical Cabbage  78\u003cbr\u003e Coconut Kale  80\u003cbr\u003e Hearty Pear  82\u003cbr\u003e High on Fiber  84\u003cbr\u003e Alkaliner  86\u003cbr\u003e Blueberry Kale  88\u003cbr\u003e Peachy  90\u003cbr\u003e Avocado  92\u003cbr\u003e Tomato Basil  94\u003cbr\u003e Cilantro Pepper  96\u003cbr\u003e Jalapeño Healer 98\u003cbr\u003e Fennel Breeze  100\u003cbr\u003e Morning Kickstart  102\u003cbr\u003e Fruit and Fiber 104\u003cbr\u003e Vanilla and Figs  106\u003cbr\u003e Pineapple Twist  108\u003cbr\u003e Nectarine Sour  110\u003cbr\u003e King of the Fruits  112\u003cbr\u003e Watermelon  114\u003cbr\u003e Green Papaya  116\u003cbr\u003e Super Cantaloupe  118\u003cbr\u003e Blackcurrant 120\u003cbr\u003e Aloe Protector  122\u003cbr\u003e Goji Tangerine  124\u003cbr\u003e Cinnamon-Date Digestive  126\u003cbr\u003e Leek and Cucumber  128\u003cbr\u003e Watercress  130\u003cbr\u003e Skin Tonic  132\u003cbr\u003e Blueberry Chia  134\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Shots And Milks 136\u003cbr\u003e Aloe  138\u003cbr\u003e Green with Envy  140\u003cbr\u003e Flu Kick  142\u003cbr\u003e Ginger  144\u003cbr\u003e Brazil Nut Milk  146\u003cbr\u003e Pine Nut Milk  148\u003cbr\u003e Almond Milk  150\u003cbr\u003e Pumpkin Seed Milk  152\u003cbr\u003e Chocolate Cashew Milk  154\u003cbr\u003e Pecan Milk 156 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  158FERN GREEN is a food stylist, writer, experienced chef, and boutique hotel owner. She regularly writes and styles for magazines and works with various high-profile brands on food styling for editorial, packaging, advertising, and video content. When she's not food styling or recipe writing, she cooks for her guests from her Italian kitchen garden at Fireflies and Figs in Central Italy.Introduction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese days, we seem to have a better understanding of how to control disease and the aging process. We know that it matters what we put into our bodies—we recognize the benefits that can be achieved by eating well, how it affects our energy levels, and how we feel about ourselves. Eating healthily gives us a positive outlook on life in general. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We also often hear that cooking can kill healthy enzymes and damage nutrients found in foods, and so we’re looking for quick and easy ways to eat raw food.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e What a great way to eat all those raw fruits and vegetables in your kitchen: take a handful of spinach, add an apple or two, throw them into your blender or juicer, and away you go—a fun-packed, nutrient-rich green drink! You would have to eat a lot of spinach in a salad to get the same amount of nutrients that you can by juicing. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book will offer you helpful hints and fantastic recipe ideas to set you up on green drinks for life. Whether you want to lose weight, fight fatigue, combat disease, or just be healthier, adding green drinks into your diet will slowly transform your health for the better.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTop six green smoothie benefits\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Smoothies can:\u003cbr\u003e 1. Cleanse and detox your body, as well as balance acid and alkaline levels, helping to prevent disease and heal existing health problems.\u003cbr\u003e 2. Help you to replace your caffeine fix with a natural energy boost.\u003cbr\u003e 3. Benefit kids who perhaps are not \u003cbr\u003e that keen on vegetables—you can hide the vegetables in with their favorite fruits.\u003cbr\u003e 4. Give you energy from the anti-oxidants and phytochemicals present.\u003cbr\u003e 5. Provide for a healthy snack or a meal replacement.\u003cbr\u003e 6. Help purify your blood because they are packed full of vitamins, enzymes, and chlorophyll. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A smoothie or a juice?\u003cbr\u003e Smoothies and juices are both very good for you, and which you choose to drink is a matter of personal pref-erence. Both are highly nutritious and use raw ingredients, but to make a smoothie, you use a blender, and to make a juice, you use a juicer (see page 9 for advice on equipment).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If you put some fruit and vegetables in your juicer, a great drink full of vitamins and minerals will pour out—one that you can drink quickly and will no doubt give you an energy boost, because all the nutrients will enter your bloodstream in a matter of minutes. Juicing is the quickest way of getting healthy greens into your body. The pulp that is left in the juicer (which it’s best to empty and clean out right away) is where the fiber is. Fiber slows down the absorption of nutrients, which then release slowly into your system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When you make smoothies, this pulp is whizzed in a blender and broken down into a thick liquid. You can adjust the consistency to your liking by adding water to make it more digestible. Smoothies contain fiber which is important to help the body eliminate waste, as it cleans your digestive tract and colon. It’s recommended that you sip smoothies; drinking them too fast can cause bloating. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Having just one juice and one smoothie a day can yield incredible results for your body—just try it!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Green ingredients\u003cbr\u003e When you begin mixing fruits and vegetables, it can be hard to get used to the “green taste.” There is nothing wrong with this—you will find that you may need to experiment at the beginning as you might crave more fruit (that is, more sweetness). Most of the recipes in this book are roughly 60 percent vegetable to 40 percent fruit, and sometimes contain even less fruit.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Do remember to rotate the greens that you use in your smoothies and juices, as variety is key to supplying all those different nutrients to your body. 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