This morning I made a beauty of a green smoothie. This one was the most brilliant raspberry-ish color...no raspberries in it though.
1 cup of water
5 large collard green leafs
1/2 peeled beet (cut into 4 pieces or so)
1/2 cup frozen blueberries
3 dates (pits removed)
Blend the water and collards first. Then add the other stuff. Blend again and again. Those beet chunks like to bump around for a while in the blender.
Yum-yum-yum. This one will help to detox you too with the beets. By the way, children should only have about 1/2 a beet a day as they could be too harsh on their little selves.
Do you look at the lid of your blender when you are done? It always displays a pretty picture of the living nutrients involved in making a green smoothie... Do like me, look at it and then lick it clean. We don't want any of that raw food goodness going down the drain! ;-)
Make sure to save the greens of your beets to use in a smoothie. Actually mine are the first green to go in the fridge. They are so packed with nutrients. Look at some of these comparisons for the beet itself and the beet greens--per 100 grams...
calcium............beet-16mg........beet greens-117mg
vit A..................beet-33IU.........beet greens-6326IU
vitK...................beet-0.20mcg....beet greens-400mcg
~ info from p. 33 of "Green for Life" by Victoria Boutenko
Beets roots are higher across the board in the B-vitamins and of course in calories.
Just go ahead and use the whole plant in your healthy eating!
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