In one word, green smoothie can be defined as awesome. A filling, nutritious and a low calorie drink that is also described as the world’s best super food due to the fact that it contains the benefits of both fruits and vegetables. It’s usually made with a mix of yogurt, ice, water and fruits plus leafy vegetables such as kale, spinach and lettuce. It becomes all the more nutritious if you eliminate refined sugar and incorporate fresh vegetables.
Health benefits of green smoothie:
• Provides you with chock full of nutrients: Vegetables are considered as nutrient dense foods due to the reason that they are packed with minerals, vitamins and omega 3’s. When you juice or puree them, the nutrients get released from the capsulated cellulose walls and its gets absorbed in the bloodstream very easily. Also, it’s the easiest way to get your daily dose of leafy vegetables that you often tend to forget to include in your diet. It also curbs junk food cravings and provides you with the essential amino acids.
• Promotes weigh loss: If you would be eating more of healthy fruits and vegetables in the smoothie then automatically your consumption of calorie laden bad foods will decrease. Also, leafy vegetables are high in water content and fibre that fills you up and provides adequate sustenance. This smoothie that you can have all year around is full of anti oxidants that speeds up metabolism and burns fat much quickly.
• Improves digestion: Consuming fibre rich food as present in leafy vegetables promotes healthy digestion. Also, intake of lot of fluids will promote healthy bowel movement which will help you flush out toxic waste from your body thus acting as chimney sweepers. Cleaner bowels mean better elimination of trash from your body which also leaves you feeling light.
• Your steady stream of energy: Natural sugar can be found in fruits and the fibres present in the greens regulate the fruit sugar absorption, providing your body with just the right amount of nutrition and energy that you require. Just as the green smoothie promotes nutrients absorption, in the similar manner it also provides increased energy. Excess consumption of red meat, fast food, processed food can leave you feeling heavy and sluggish. Such bad foods often prevent you from having good energy level and feeling great.
So, if you are using caffeine as a crutch to give you increased energy and help you stay awake, switch to this good addiction known as green smoothie instead.