A really fun way of eating your fruit and vegetables is as a blend. Not to be confused with juicing (which removes some or all of the pulp and concentrates the natural sugars), blending utilises the whole fruit and vegetable so you are getting maximum goodness from your drink.
Drinking a blend that contains the pulp also means that rather than 6 oranges in your glass, you only have 1-2 plus other vegetables helping you stick to the recommendation of 2-3 serves of fruit per day.
I wouldn’t recommend this being the only way you consume fruit and vegetables. There’s much value in letting your teeth do what they were created for and actually chewing your fruit and vegetables as you eat them! However, if it helps you get in fruit and vegetables that you normally wouldn’t eat then a couple of these per week is totally fine.
They can be super refreshing on a hot summer afternoon or after a particularly gruelling workout.
This blood orange slushy was created when the lovely people from Red Belly Blood Oranges sent us a rather large box of freshly picked oranges to sample. They were absolutely beautiful, bursting with rich flavour and vibrant colour – hence how pink the juice looks!
Blood Orange Slushy
Ingredients
- 4 orange, blood (or regular navel oranges will also work), quartered and peeled
- 2 tsp ginger, fresh skin removed
- 1 carrot roughly chopped
- ½ cup raspberries (frozen)
- ½ cup water
Instructions
- Pop all the ingredients into a blender and blend with a high speed for two minutes.
- Pour into glasses, pop in a straw and drink. Enjoy!
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