Healthy Swaps: Smoothies by Dana Angelo White in Healthy Tips, July 6, 2010
- Give Your Smoothie A Makeover
We filled you in on ways to create more figure-friendly salads, and now we’re showing you how to make over another pseudo health food: smoothies. Those ginormous smoothie shop drinks made our list of “Healthy” Foods to Skip, but with the right ingredients, smoothies can definitely be “healthy eats.”
Making your own is a good place to start, but whether you pick them up or whip them up in your own kitchen, use these tips to swap high-calorie components with smarter high-energy ingredients.
- Try These Healthy Smoothie Swaps
TELL US: How do you lighten up your smoothies?
Dana Angelo White, MS, RD, ATC, is a registered dietitian, certified athletic trainer and owner of Dana White Nutrition, Inc., which specializes in culinary and sports nutrition. See Dana’s full bio »
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My go-to morning smoothie contains lots of fresh fruit (usually a variety of berries), fat free vanilla yogurt (I like Stonyfield Farm), OJ and a few pieces of ice! Yum!
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Before I do the basic smoothie, I blend about 7 small baby carrots with the water/juice until very fine, then add the other ingredients. That way I sneak in a vegtable. If it's a big smoothie, I will sneak in some frozen spinach. Surprizingly, you really don't taste them. I always use real frozen fruit and vanilla yogurt.
I use fat free plain yogurt (to cut down on added sugar) then I add organic frozen berries, milled flax seed, organic milk, and a natural sugar substitute. No need to add ice because the berries are already frozen.
Just make sure the frozen berries are organic – berries are typically one of the dirtiest, pesticide-laden fruits!
Thank-you for the tip. I didn't know that. Very helpful!
a really great way to do smoothies is to freeze your favorite yogurt in ice cube trays and pull out what you want to add, really makes the smoothie thicker and not runny at all and taste great…. give it a try you won't do it any other way
Adding spinach! Can't taste it and gives me some extra veggies.
We add frozen spinach to our smoothies too! I blend it with the milk, water or yogurt before I add the fruit. Can't taste it at all, but it packs a great nutritional punch.