Green smoothie broccoli experiment

We would have never thought that we would ever eat raw broccoli. Never. And we couldn’t even imagine that we would drink it in a green smoothie with apple and bananas.

It’s like we're taking a dump on all the other diet myths – like for example the food combining diet. And on our old beliefs. “Ewww broccoli with banana”.

But the truth about this green smoothie is: Not bad, not bad at all.

Kinda solid in fact.

Not too sweet, yet sweet enough. Just the way we like it. And true, because we don’t have a reliable blender in the universe it’s sometimes not that smooth (should call it “green not that smoothie”), but we have never minded chewing. We like to chew it, chew it, we like to chew it, chew it, we like to chew it! Legendary song. To be honest, we don’t care, take a straw and it will all be good.

We have been drinking this green smoothie first thing in the morning last week, every day and 2-3 times throughout the day and we must say – it makes us feel awesome.

It’s like: we wake up, we feel dead inside, we drink it – and abracadabra, we're new again. In a few hours, again gray sucky winter got us dead inside – 1 glass of this green smoothie and tada we're back to life. It’s like we get new life inside of us.

Warning: this smoothie will make you pregnant. Ok, it will of course not make you pregnant.

Well if you’re a man that is.

But it will make you feel alive, alive in every cell of your body.

And it tastes notable – that broccoli fear we had before – gone with the wind. And our advice for you – if you think something might work, but you’re not sure, don’t just waste your time thinking if it would work out or not – just put it in the blender (even if it’s the blender of life) and try it.

You will definitely be relieved and will most probably be positively surprised. Some philosophic stuff going on in the huge pumpkin on our shoulders today.

HEALTH AND BEAUTY BENEFITS

Well, when it comes to antioxidants and detoxification it doesn’t get much better than this. The smoothie gets you about 70 % of the recommended vegetable & fruit servings.

Some of the beautifying nutrients in this green smoothie include:

• Fiber – helps get rid of the waste in the intestines, that might make skin look dull.
• Carotenoids – antioxidants, important for prevention of skin cancer and other types of cancer.
• Vitamin C – important for collagen formation and iron absorption! Score – Broccoli and Spinach are also high in iron!

Here are some properties of the green smoothie ingredients:

• Broccoli: anti-cancer, antioxidant, highly alkaline and detoxifying
• Spinach: anti-cancer, antioxidant, antiviral and alkaline
• Lemon: highly alkaline, Vitamin C-rich, antibacterial
• Apple: antioxidant, detoxifying
• Banana: potassium-rich, energy-boosting
• Carrot: anti-cancer, good for the eyes