Smoothie recipes
Take the ingredients listed and put them in a high powered blender (I use a Blendtec Pro 800). Blend until you like the consistency. A minute is likely sufficient.
Good
Green banana and vanilla
Avocado
Banana
Plenty of spinach
Vanilla soy milk
Use maple syrup to adjust the sweetness to preference, but is quite tasty even when not very sweet.
Exotic dried fruit and also banana
Dried papaya and pineapple (I used an “exotic fruit mix” from the supermarket)
Vanilla soy milk
A banana
Extremely sweet.
Rhubarb and strawberries
Fresh strawberries
Fresh rhubarb cut into dices
Somewhat tart. Add maple syrup to add a bit of sweetness if you wish, but not too much. The rhubarb is the point.
Decent
Pear, pineapple, almond
Two pears
Some frozen pineapple
Almond milk
A little grainy due to the pears, but the taste is quite fresh.
Papaya, mango, and pineapple juice
Papaya
Mango
Pineapple juice
Some ice cubes
Make sure you use sufficient ice cubes and/or juice to make it fairly liquid. Not particularly sweet, but decently refreshing.
Papaya and banana
Half a papaya
A banana
Vanilla soy milk
Ice cubes
Not as sweet as expected. Very fresh.
Vanilla soy milk orange
One peeled large orange or several small ones
Vanilla soy milk
A generous teaspoon of honey
Some ice cubes
I think it’s OK, but my partner says it “tastes like disease” (and she works at a hospital, so I guess she’d know).
Blackberry, pineapple, kiwi, and passion fruit
Passion fruits without the rinds
Some blackberries
A couple of peeled kiwis
Pineapple juice
Tastes a bit like red berry juice, but with the spiciness of kiwis. Way too many seeds.
Cucumber and spinach
A couple of Kiwi
Half a cucumber
Lots of spinach
Pineapple juice
Not very sweet, but an acceptable way to ingest lots of vegetables. The kiwis help make the taste more interesting.
Grapefruit yogurt
Grapefruit
Orange
Two dollops of Greek yoghurt
Some maple syrup
Both sweet and bitter. Probably better without the grapefruit.
Awful
Grapefruit spinach
A peeled grapefruit
Two handfuls of spinach
Some apple juice
A bit of soy milk, just to thin it further
Ice cubes
A banana
Much more bitter than I expected.
Orange with peel
A large un-peeled orange. Make sure to wash it first, as they are often surface treated with conservation chemicals.
That’s it.
Produces a disgusting chunky high-viscosity jelly. Probably impossible to actually drink. If you blend in some water (or presumably ice cubes) it may become possible to drink, but you still don’t want to. Awful taste and awful texture. Don’t think you can make orange juice this way.