How To Make A Green Smoothie Tasty Every Time

My name is Valia Botenko and today I'm going to show you how to make an excellent green smoothie. I'm going to go over the basic principles of making every smoothie taste good so that you never make an awful one again. So green smoothies are made out of greens and fruits, right? So I have here some spinach. So I'm going to put some spinach right into this blender. A little more. And for fruit, I'm just going to use this apple here. I always take out the stem because the stem is a very woody part of the apple and it doesn't blend up. But you can leave the seeds of the apple even though some people say the seeds have cyanide. In small amounts, those chemicals are actually good for the body and explode cancer cells. We have the fruit, we have the greens. So we put some water in there. All right, let's blend it up. So this is how not to make a smoothie. Notice that the particles are all quickly moving to the bottom and we've got a nice layer of foam on top which usually has a very strong chlorophyll flavor. It's separating, it's going to be chunky, lumpy, fibrous, foamy, watery, and tasting like straight grass. To make a good smoothie, you have to know the difference between the two fibers that exist. There are two types of fiber, soluble fiber and insoluble fiber. Insoluble fiber is the fiber that we make fabric out of and weave rope out of. It's what our clothes are made out of. And greens are a very rich source of insoluble fiber. Now to make the smoothie creamy, we need to use the soluble fiber. That's the creamy fiber, the fiber that will suspend all the particles and make a delicious texture. Also, it'll make the flavor sweeter and more fruit-like, masking the strong chlorophyll taste. So what are some fruits that are rich in soluble fiber? Bananas are rich in soluble fiber, so are pears and kiwis. Strawberries are rich in soluble fiber, as well as papayas, peaches. Mangoes are the king of fiber, actually. Mangoes have both soluble and insoluble fiber. And the fiber is really good for the heart, for cleaning the heart arteries and taking out toxins from the body. So you have to include at least one kind of soluble fiber in every smoothie. So in this smoothie, I'm going to put a banana, put a banana in there. And I'm going to put some mango. I'm also going to use a slice of pear, about half, half of a pear. And finally, just a few strawberries. Also, you can leave the greens of the strawberries on the berry because they're edible. And this is a green smoothie, so we might as well add some more greens to it. Now let's see what happens when we blend this up. Now look at this smoothie. It's got a creamy texture. The particles are not sinking to the bottom. We've eliminated the foam, and it smells like fruit. It smells delicious. It also tastes delicious. This is going to be a very delicious smoothie for anybody. An important note is to pour it into a pretty glass. Food that is presented in a palatable fashion tends to taste better actually, statistically speaking. So we're going to dress this up and make it look outstanding. Maybe with a slice of kiwi, like that. And let's put a little bit of strawberry on there like this. So here we have a beautiful green smoothie that also tastes delicious. Who could say no to this?