A Woman's Best Friend: Green Vegetable Smoothie ?

“Woman’s Best Friend” Green Vegetable Smoothie

Nutrition Consultant specialized in helping people regain natural gut microbiome after yeast, bacterial, and viral infections.

As a woman, I must share this easy-to-make, deliciously vibrant smoothie 🙂 I first heard about green vegetable smoothies when I was on Body Ecology Diet (B.E.D.) to heal my systemic yeast overgrowth.

I raise a glass of liquidated fruits and vegetables to my lips most mornings and find this hits many nails at once as far as getting in minerals, vitamins, hydration, healthy fat, liver cleansing, uterine cleansing, stimulating digestive juices, and fiber with just one glass.

I named this “Woman’s Best Friend’ because cranberries are notoriously known to remedy many female issues, including urinary tract infections, yeast infections, and breast cancer. Cranberries also contain polyphenols, micronutrients with antioxidant activity, that play an important role as a prebiotic to increase the amount of beneficial gut flora (good for overall health, weight management, and disease prevention).

In general, vegetable smoothies are a way to get your daily fix and even easier to digest; key when healing digestion. Whether or not you are healing with a strict dietary practice, this smoothie gets a twirl.

Cranberries are naturally rich in polyphenolic material that seem able to target a fraction bacteria and viruses. ~ Professor Ofek

“Woman’s Best Friend” Green Vegetable Smoothie

Serves: 4

Yields: 6 cups

Ingredients

3 cups pure water

1 cup cranberries, fresh or frozen

1/2 cup sunflower seeds, soaked

1/2 granny smith apple, quartered, skin-on

1 handful parsley, stems intact (about an ounce)

4 large lettuce leaves

1 medium cucumber, skin on

1/2 lemon, juiced

1 tbsp cold-pressed flax oil

2-inch ginger root, unpeeled

1/2 – 3/4 tsp green leaf stevia powder (optional for extra sweetness)

2 pinches Himalayan or Celtic sea salt, coarse*

Instructions

Add all ingredients in a Vita-Mix or other high speed blender.
Whirl around until smooth as smoothie.
Taste and add more of anything your taste-buds desire.
Store in fridge in a sealed glass jar for up to 3 days.

Tips & Ideas

Source organic cranberries as they tend to be heavily sprayed and laden with pesticides.
Delicious additions that I can vouch for are: avocado, chia seeds.
Get extra yummy and add a splash of young coconut kefir (homemade/store-bought).
Replenish gut flora with the contents of a couple probiotic capsules.
Thicken things up with young coconut pudding …. think green smoothie in a bowl.
Add scoop of collagen peptides to increase the protein.
Add couple of pasture-raised fresh egg yolks to increase fat.
Sour green apple gives a sweet touch of expansiveness to this alkalizing smoothie. Ideally, fruit is best eaten alone on empty stomach for optimal food combining, but combines fine with raw greens and soaked seeds. If this fruit causes a yeast flare-up, leave it out and add more stevia.

*I like to add a pinch of mineral-rich sea salt to smoothies to boost flavor, stimulate lymphatic system, replenish electrolytes, aid digestion, and help body access energy. I do not recommend common table salt as is often heated to extreme temperatures, iodized, bleached, processed, and refined.