Green Smoothie Challenge Starring Healthy Fruits and Vegetables

Go Green Smoothie Challenge as in drinking more fresh green fruit and vegetable smoothies.

Summer is the perfect time of the year when all kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables in season are available. Pick and choose as many green fruits and vegetables as possible, add them to your daily diet and you’ll thank me later

What can green fruits and vegetables do for your health?

Here’s just a small list of fruits and vegetables:

• romaine lettuce and green leaf lettuce
• kale and cabbage
• green beans and peas
• cucumber and zucchini
• green pepper
• edamame
• broccoli and asparagus
• spinach
• green apples
• lime and kiwi
• grapes (green of course)
• honeydew melon
• avocados and more …

Even their names sound so mouthwatering and really what can healthy greens do for you?

If you are still wondering, they have numerous, even tremendous number of, health benefits to support your overall health, as well as to do great serve to your weight loss purposes (fruit and vegetables cleanse properties are well known).

Benefits of fruits and vegetables

• Powerful antioxidants – containing vitamins, minerals and carotenoids
• Great sources of Vitamin C – kiwi, lime
• Vitamin K, iron, calcium
• Excellent sources of fiber and folate
• Beneficial for eye health – spinach, kale
• Protective for some types of cancer
  Carotenoids in green leafy vegetables inhibit growth of some sort of skin, breast, lung and stomach cancer
  Folate decreases the risk of pancreatic cancer
• Healing wounds quickly
• Keeping gums and teeth healthy

Back to the point:

Green Smoothie Challenge involving drinking lots of fresh green fruit and vegetable smoothies

You are probably wondering how they act to support your weight loss?

Well, it’s the fruit and vegetable cleanse properties that help detoxify your body. Green fruit and vegetables smoothies contain substances (antioxidants – plenty of them BTW) that are capable to remove free radicals from your body hence no harm, no weight gain.

Introduce as many healthy greens as possible into your daily diet. Eat them fresh and cooked – either way is beneficial. As for which cooking practice is more delicious – it’s up to your personal preferences.

How many healthy greens to keep you and your children fit and strong?

These are the least amounts of fresh green fruits and vegetables per week – of course the more the better.

• Children age 2-3 – ½ cup
• Children age 4-8 – 1 cup
• Adults and teens – 1 ½ to2 cups

I know it’s difficult, nearly impossible, to make a 3 year old to eat anything green, but where there’s a will, there’s a way:

Green smoothies are one alternative to eating fresh green fruits and vegetables, that almost no kid (age 2-8) likes. Despite the numerous benefits of fruits and vegetables (the kids just don’t care).
It’s simple – just blend the healthy greens and the kid will drink the green smoothie. I know smoothies and juices (even the green ones) are a lot more preferable and attractive to kids than plain fresh fruits and vegetables (as for the cooked ones – they hate them even more).

How to make a green smoothie?

Let’s get started the green smoothie challenge by preparing some green smoothies recipes …

In my next article you will find 5 healthy green smoothie recipes, which I’ve picked and chosen very carefully. 2 healthy green smoothie recipes, 2 green smoothie recipes for weight loss and 1 green smoothie recipe for toddlers.

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