3 Alkaline Vegetables To Add To Your Green Smoothie

If you love the alkaline lifestyle you probably already know all about green smoothies

. They are a delicious, healthy and quick way to get your alkaline boost and add more alkaline vegetables to your diet.

What Is The Alkaline Diet? The main premise of the alkaline diet is that our bodies function more efficiently when in an alkaline state. Our metabolism improves, our internal organs work more efficiently and we generally feel more energised. We can determine whether our body is alkaline or acidic (the opposite of alkaline) by monitoring our PH level, watching what foods we eat and paying attention to our general lifestyle. Generally speaking alkaline foods are fresh, have a relatively high water content and give your body loads of nutrition.

What Are Green Smoothies?

Green smoothies are just that: a smoothie that is green. It is an easy and quick way to prepare a meal or a snack with fresh foods that will give heaps of nutrition to your body.There are 3 main ingredients for your green smoothie: your green leafy vegetables or leaves, your fruit (to add sweetness to the smoothie) and your liquid to help the smoothie blend. You can choose to use water, fresh fruit or vegetable juice, tea or even commercial juice. You can add additional spices or herbs to make your smoothie taste better. However, you should check that mot of the ingredients for your smoothie are alkaline - otherwise the smoothie could do you more harm than good! 3 Great Alkaline Vegetables To Add To Your Smoothie

Kale - Kale is a leafy form of cabbage that is very high in beta carotene, vitamin K, vitamin C, lutein, zeaxanthin, and reasonably rich in calcium. By itself it tastes quite bitter, but if combined with some nice fruit, it can make a fantastic green smoothie. You can choose to remove the main stem and just use the leaves around it if you prefer a very smooth smoothie without bits and pieces (unless you have an extremely powerful blender!). I love to combine Kale with banana and orange, and add some ginger for spice.

Baby Spinach - Baby Spinach is a great vegetable to use for smoothies. It has quiet a light taste on its own, so it doesn't taste as bitter as Kale or as spicy as rocket. Baby Spinach can be combined with nearly every type of fruit you like and it processes easily even if you use a normal household blender.

Rocket - Most rocket has a very strong, bitter and spicy taste about it, unless you use very young rocket leaves. If your rocket has a strong taste, you will want to choose a sweet type of fruit to combine it with so you create a balanced taste - if the smoothie tastes too strong you won't enjoy drinking it! As with Kale, I like combining rocket with a ripe pear.

by: Chenny Cruz

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