Green Smoothie Recipes & Info on Green Smoothies

Remember the Variety Rule – don’t eat today what you ate yesterday. Blend different fruits and greens each day. Vita-Mix is the best blender.

Build or buy a GoGreen Automatic Sprouter for baby greens fresh every day for your Smoothie.

Only LIVING greens have all nutrients in perfect balance for high-energy Green Smoothies. Lettuce loses 60% of its vitamin C within 24 hours of picking.

Only LIVING greens give you enzymes and biophotons. What's a living green? It's still growing in the moment you eat it.

"The more biophotons we take in through our foods, the better our health."

Reader Paizley writes:

"I would not call that stupid...just not suited for your tastes. I blended up a bunch of green endive this morning with spinach and lemon. It was wonderful. Green endive is more bitter than arugula."

"Suggest to your readers to experiment ... they can add other ingredients to change the flavor. There are no rules or regulations to making your own green smoothie!"

Green Smoothies are the most nutritious meal on earth. A good Smoothie is 60% fresh fruit mixed with 40% green leafy vegetables. Pick organic greens fresh daily from a Sprouter! (see photos)

Children love the taste of Green Smoothie. Sweet fruit takes away the bitter taste of greens. If your Smoothie tastes too bitter, add more fruit.

Dr Ann spoke of an instant surge in energy and brain focus with her first Green Smoothie. Wow, more energy and clarity when she was already buzzing from 25 years of raw foods – the higher you go, the higher you go! (whoever wrote “the harder you fall” was on cooked food).

Green Smoothies are easy to digest. A blender is the perfect set of teeth. It's a dream come true for your digestive enzymes. Nutrients are absorbed quickly and easily.

The fibrous greens of a Smoothie are blended into a mush. Blending by-passes all digestive problems like sore teeth, peptic ulcer, colitis, and a sick pancreas.

Green Smoothies are a complete food. With their fiber, the fruit sugars are absorbed more slowly. You don't get that blood sugar rush you get from juicing.

I know, I was an alcoholic for 23 years, then addicted to sugar for the next five – until I began to blend Green Smoothies every day for a year, starting in 1993.

In the first month I saw light at the end of my tunnel. I stood in my bathroom, I knew for the first time in my life I was going to get out of my hell.

How do I pass Dunkin Donuts today, and feel no desire? I never reach for a donut, french fries or chocolate any more. It's certainly not willpower! Anyone who can drink herself to death for two decades, you can see has no willpower.

It's the Green Smoothies, one a day every day. Green Smoothie is so nutrient dense – has so much nutrition per bite of calorie – it gives your cells the food they are crying for. Green Smoothies are the first step to end addiction.

When your cells get what they need, and your brain, and emotions, that desire for junk falls away one step at a time – like leaves falling from a tree in autumn. The first to go was Mrs Fields cookies. I could not stand their heavy sugar. Today my body-mind thrives on fresh fruit sugar in Green Smoothie.

Have you heard of Angela Stokes? Angela lost 160 lbs on raw foods, she dropped from 300 lbs to 140 lbs. Green Smoothies were a big part of her weight loss.

See her Easy Weight Loss program here – helping you to Lose Weight QUICKLY! Your life is so precious. Please get Angela's help. When you do it the healthy way, you stay at your ideal weight for life. No more yo-yo-ing!

"I went full-bore into drinking Green Smoothie every day. I also cut out animal products, fat, and dairy, and the weight started flying right off. The rapid weight loss encouraged me to stay on the diet."

"At the beginning of each day I would blend one gallon of green smoothie and drink some every two to three hours. Sometimes after drinking a green smoothie I ate a few veggies."

"I found that green smoothies helped me to eliminate food cravings better than anything I had ever tried before. ... Most other diets I've tried made me  hungry and weak. ... On the green smoothie experiment, I didn't have to count calories."

"I have lost 240 pounds and have attained my dream weight of 170 pounds. ... To my surprise I don't have any hanging skin. My skin has tightened without any need for surgery, which I attribute entirely to the green smoothies."

Greens nourish every cell in your body-brain. I blend a quart of Green Smoothie daily.

We humans are losing our connection with Green. Truly we need to GoGreen in our diet. A chlorophyll molecule (the green in leaves) differs from a human blood molecule by only one atom. The late Dr Jensen proved in The Healing Power of Chlorophyll that if you're anemic or tired, Green Smoothies will quickly raise your red blood cell count.

The core atom in chlorophyll is magnesium (in human blood it's iron). Cravings are often a sign of magnesium deficiency. Green Smoothies are the best food to end your addiction to cakes, cookies and chocolate. When your body gets the nutrients it needs, cravings go.

Green Smoothies are rich in alkaline minerals like calcium. The high-calcium greens are the fibrous ones such as dandelion, kale and collard. Wherever there's a hard shell – as in teeth, bone, or tough-to-chew greens – you will find calcium.

Green Smoothies are a perfect food for children of all ages, including babies when introducing new food after mother's milk. Be careful and slowly increase the amount of smoothies to avoid food allergies.

Did you know, this is the best-kept secret in the capitalized world? That the richest source of protein for humans is green leaves? Leaf protein is easy to digest, easily assimilated into the tissues, and has none of the harmful side effects of flesh protein. 

Green Smoothies contain all essential amino acids. If you're moving toward a heart-friendly, earth-friendly vegan diet (non-dairy vegetarian) then it's a good idea to eat Green Smoothie daily to meet all your nutrient needs.

Believe it or not, Green Smoothies are a good source of Omega-3 unsaturated fat. Green leaves are the plant’s food factory where it manufactures the fats it needs for every one of its cells. Blend a LOT of greens into a Smoothie, rather than kill the fish in the sea. Fish oil is NOT a good source of Omega-3. Green leaves and flax seeds are far better.

The United Nations reports: 

"The livestock sector generates more greenhouse gas emissions than transport." [that's farmed animals, birds + fish]

"Livestock are a major source of land and water degradation ... The major polluting agents are animal wastes, antibiotics and hormones, chemicals from tanneries, fertilizers and the pesticides used to spray feed crops." (UN Food & Agricultural Organization report, Nov. 2006)

If you weigh 140 lbs, you need 1,400 calories a day to sustain your basal metabolic rate at rest (BMR) – that’s the calories you must eat before you make a single move. Resting BMR is equal to 10 times your ideal body weight.

A cup of spinach is 7 calories. One slice of vegetarian pizza is 670 calories. That’s 96 cups of green leaves! Do you understand WHY you could be buying pizza after a Green Smoothie? Simply because you’ve not eaten 96 cups of greens today!

If you’re addicted to your local bakery, try eating a lot more calories in the form of fruit and lightly cooked starchy vegetables such as butternut, squash and sweet potato.

Eat as much fruit as you like half an hour before your Green Smoothie, or add more to your Smoothie. Fruit reduces hunger pangs because it's rich in carbohydrates.

You may crave sweet after your Green Smoothie. Read why here under Energy Soup. These days I satisfy that craving by sucking on a few pieces of home-dried fruit (banana or apple).

If you experience a colon reaction, EAT SLOWER. Chew your Smoothie. If needed, refrigerate it and eat over an hour or two, instead of all at once. Get those GREENS into you!

The incredible density of nutrients in a Green Smoothie will feed every cell in your body-mind. We don’t get enough nutrition from eating the greens whole. I experienced this when on vacation recently. My gums were bleeding within three days, with no green blends, even though I was eating a salad of fresh garden greens daily.

Do you have blood sugar problems such as diabetes or hypoglycemia? Then you may want to use less fruit at the start. Raw vegan medical doctor Dr. Gabriel Cousens, author of There Is A Cure for Diabetes, advises to avoid sweet fruits altogether in the first three months of changing your diet.

Go for savory! The best I've tasted are the Raw Savory Veggie Stews by Roger Haeske. He uses your full quota of greens but no fruit at all. Plus it's crunchy!

We should never have any food, drink, herb or supplement seven days a week – always take 1-2 days break. An Automatic Sprouter gives you a *new* tray of baby greens fresh every day! Owning a GoGreen Sprouter is the easy way to enjoy a variety of organic greens. Baby greens take only 3-5 days to grow.

What of the mature greens? Those that grow for 6-8 weeks like lettuce, spinach and wild weeds? Well, there's two schools of thought. One, led by Victoria Boutenko, believes that bitter-tasting greens like wild weeds are good for you. Victoria even blends avocado pit into her green smoothie! The other school,  led by Doug Graham, emphasizes tender greens such as sprouts and lettuces.

In her book Green Smoothie Revolution, Victoria quotes research:

"The phytochemicals are antioxidants, and they are all bitter ... The same chemicals in plants that make for a bitter taste may also prevent cancer and heart disease."

“The sweeter the food tastes, the higher its alkalinity.”

Today I find myself in the tender lettuce camp. When I set out on the Green Smoothie path in the fall of 1993, I blended every leafy green possible. My favorite was kale, raw beetroot and garlic with apple + avocado, blended to crunchy in my food processor. But in Reaching for Raw over the years, I now prefer baby greens from my Sprouter, and all fresh lettuces. I no longer enjoy bitter greens in a Smoothie.

Think about it. The very bitter greens you're not likely to eat, or you'd eat only a little, if eaten alone. These bitter greens are high in alkaloids (natural pesticides) which are toxic to our species.

However, a family in Europe writes this in the summer 2009 issue of Pear magazine:

"We discovered the importance of greens and especially the wild edibles. This was the new step we were looking for! We juice kilos of wild greens every morning and mix them with a sesame and banana smoothie. So we have a sweet tasting green power drink our kids like, and this helped us to discover higher levels of health and vibration. The mix made from the dense, mineral rich greens and the essential fatty acids in the sprouted sesame are doing miracles!"

Some greens are high in oxalic acid which binds with calcium to form calcium oxalate, an insoluble salt. Add these to a Green Smoothie for variety, but do NOT make an entire Smoothie out of them. They are lambsquarters, beet leaves, purslane, spinach, Swiss chard, parsley, amaranth leaves and sorrel. Leave rhubarb leaves alone, they can poison you when eaten in large quantities.

Sweet baby-leaf spinach is fine to eat in quantity. It tastes like the acid has been bred out of it.

LOW in oxalic acid and good to eat in Green Smoothies (if you don't mind bitter) are: dandelion greens and kale (more calcium than dairy), lettuce, celery, watercress, escarole, mustard greens, turnip greens, carrot tops, broccoli, asparagus, cabbage, and most other greens.

Alfalfa greens are rich in minerals and trace elements – their roots grow more than 100 feet deep. Alfalfa has all essential amino acids and all known vitamins. It’s especially good for our kidney-bladder, writes Paul Pitchford in Healing With Whole Foods. Also well-known for building strong bones. The best way to harvest fresh alfalfa is from a GoGreen Automatic Sprouter.

All these grow easily in an Automatic Sprouter. Cruciferous green SPROUTS are the highest known source of the phytochemical, sulforaphane, which stimulates the production of cancer-killing enzymes. The sprouts contain 20-50 times more sulforaphane than the mature vegetables – in fact some mature broccoli has no sulforaphane at all.

More recently, researchers have found that sulforaphane protects arteries from the clogging that triggers heart attack or stroke. Sulforaphane switches on a protective protein (Nrf2) in those areas of the arteries vulnerable to clogging – the bends and branches where blood flow is slower.

Sulforaphane protects against damage to blood vessels caused by diabetes. And Nrf2 protects our lungs from toxin-related damage. Not for smokers though! Nicotine kills the activity of sulforaphane.

Sadly, sulforaphane is the phytochemical that makes broccoli bitter. I feel nauseous if I blend mature broccoli into my Green Smoothie. Once I threw up the entire smoothie! That's one puke in 16 years from 1993.

To protect yourself and your family from heart disease and cancer, eat Green Smoothies made with organic baby greens like broccoli, sprouted at home. If you live in USA or Canada, I hope you'll invest in a GoGreen Automatic Sprouter. Experience the power of vibrantly alive energetic living greens. You can *see* the energy radiating out from the sunflower greens!

Or build your own Sprouter in any country with our GoGreen Mist Kit and FREE Sprouter-building Plans on CD. All you need to get locally is the growing container (a plastic storage box) and plant trays.

I peel fruit when it's not organic.

Watermelon is perfect, so sweet and quick to blend with greens into a Smoothie. Watermelon is actually a gourd (like squashes) so it's more vegetable than fruit.

It's fine to mix fruit and greens in one Smoothie. I know some books like Fit For Life say don't mix fruit (and especially not melon) with anything but when it's blended, that rule does not apply. Leafy greens are not really a vegetable. They have no starch. They combine well with everything, nuts too. They help to digest nuts.

Only with fat, fruit is not a good mixer. Fat is a sticky molecule that clumps together in your blood and blocks the insulin receptors on your cells. As a result, insulin can't shuttle the fruit sugar into your cells. The sugar stays too long in your blood, leading to blood sugar problems and candida.

I enjoy avocado in my Green Smoothie when I want more fat. Many people add a tablespoon of ground flax to their Smoothie. I will occasionally but it seems so unnatural to me. The flax craze was created by the flax oil industry. People don't eat flax in rural Africa!

The best water for a Green Smoothie is alkaline water from the Jupiter Ionizer here. Also quickly rinse your greens under the Jupiter’s acid outlet if they’re store-bought, to kill pathogenic microbes.

Preferably don’t rinse any greens you pick yourself, they have healthy microbes, like the ones making Vitamin B12. Fresh-picked greens from the soil are a good source of B12. Cows get their B12 (present in their raw milk) from eating green grass.

I tend to use less fruit, about 30% fruit and 70% greens, because I eat so much fruit the rest of the day.

Greens are the perfect food for building strong bones and teeth – nearly every animal on earth has discovered that, except the big cats and polar bears!

Here's my basic Green Smoothie Recipe:

2-3 sweet fruits, e.g. apple or pear – blend first to form a tasty base,
1 vegetable fruit or a celery stalk – add next for extra minerals, e.g. summer squash or zucchini,
One tray of organic baby greens like sunflower or salad mix from my Sprouter, or one packet of pre-washed organic greens, or a handful of farm greens or wild edibles.

Here's a variety of Green Smoothie recipes chiefly from Frederic Patenaude – see  his Green For Life program – includes 7-day green detox cleanse and Green For Life book by Victoria Boutenko.

Always blend the fruit first –

2-3 cups any greens of your choice, 2 cups papaya, 2 oranges, 3 dates

1 handful lettuce leaves, 1 handful mint, 4 bananas, 1/2 cup water

Winter Smoothie - 1 cup organic frozen berries (any kind), 2 cups fresh spinach, 1/4 inch fresh ginger, water

Spring Smoothie - fresh orange juice, ripe bananas, frozen mangoes, and several large leaves of kale
(extra frozen mango gives lovely thick consistency you eat with a bowl + spoon)

1/2 bunch romaine lettuce, 1 cup strawberries, 2 bananas, water

4-5 kale leaves, 4 apples, 1/2 lemon juiced, water

2 big handfuls mixed baby greens, 2 pears, 2 mangoes, 1 cup fresh or frozen blueberries

Choc-mint – 2 cups spinach, 10-12 mint leaves, 3 bananas, 2 Tbs. carob powder, 1 cup water

1 handful of spinach, 2 stalks of celery, 2 bananas, 2 pears, 1 apple, 1 cup water

1 small handful of spinach, 2 cups arugula, 2-3 mangoes, 1 cup water

1/2 head romaine lettuce, 1 small pineapple, 1 large mango, 1-inch fresh ginger

1 handful wild greens (e.g. dandelion), 1 small handful mint leaves, 3 cups honeydew melon

3-4 stalks celery, 2 ripe persimmons, 1 banana

1 handful chard leaves, 5-6 kale leaves, 3 large bananas, 1 cup water

1 handful parsley, 3 cups of peeled papaya

Do you see that anything goes? Buy bunches of greens, a variety of fresh fruits, a GoGreen Sprouter, and CHANGE YOUR LIFE.

The First Step to Health is One Green Smoothie a Day. How much time and money we save on dental and medical bills – when we get the kitchen equipment we need to enjoy Mother Nature's food.