Product Description

The smoothie and juice recipes from the innovative team behind Innocent, the UK's largest growing food and drink company. Innocent is now five years old, and has grown into the UK's largest smoothie company, selling over 18 million bottles in 2004. Innocent smoothies and juices are sold in cafes and shops all over Britain, with the company's insistence on using 100% natural ingredients proving a winning policy in these health-conscious times. At Innocent, taste comes before anything else, so this new juicing recipe book focuses on great-tasting drinks made using combinations of healthy ingredients that actually taste great. Simple, clean and uncluttered in terms of design, filled with gorgeous photographs and written in the recognisable Innocent tone, this book will be a joy to hold and own for anyone serious about good health and great taste.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1864 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

From the Author
My name's Dan and I wrote some of the stuff in the innocent drinks recipe book "Little Book of Drinks". But before we tell you all about the book, perhaps we should tell you about who we are. innocent began in 1999, when my friends Adam, Jon and Rich got a bit bored of the jobs that they were doing . The three of them realised that they were leading unhealthy lives, always working late and eating rubbish food when they got home, and they watched lots of telly too. The crunch came when they finally decided to put up or shut up - they'd been talking about starting a business for years, and now was the time for action. They bought £500 worth of fruit, crushed it all up to make smoothies and sold them from a stall at a little music festival in London. Above the stall was a big sign saying 'Do you think we should give up our jobs to make these smoothies?' and put out a bin saying 'YES' and a bin saying 'NO'. At the end of the weekend the 'YES' bin was so full so they went in the next day and resigned.

Switch to today, and innocent has got a bit bigger. There now 20 odd people working at Fruit Towers, and we sell our smoothies and yoghurt thickies all over the UK and Ireland. We've got a nice kitchen where Lucy makes up new recipes with all manner of fruit and veg, and we thought it would be nice to collect these recipes together, write a few words, take some pictures, draw some cartoons and put them all into a book. It took quite a long time, because we're quite fussy people. We were fussy about the photos, pernickity about the words and fastidious when it came to the recipes themselves. We made all of the drinks a million times, and then we asked a professional foodie to test them a million more times. Eventually we had a big list of drinks, so had to work out how to divide them up into sections. We ended up having sections for Work, Rest and Play. The Work drinks are very healthy blends, designed to make you feel human at inhuman times i.e. 9.30am on Monday, whilst the Rest recipes will have you purring in delight after a long Saturday lie-in. The Play recipes up the ante by adding a little alcohol to the equation, but all of the cocktails use absolutely fresh juices as well, meaning that you'll be doing yourself some good whilst impressing your friends with your breakdancing skills.

None of the drinks require superhuman powers in the kitchen - the bottom line with all of our recipes is that they should taste good and do you good.

Some of the nice things people have said about innocent include - "God-given and Glorious" Daily Mail Weekend.
"The smoothie to be seen with for the next millennium and beyond" Daily Express.

About the Author
Innocent

Excerpted from Innocent Smoothie Recipe Book: 57 and a Half Great Smoothie Recipes from the Innocent Kitchen: Book 2. by Innocent. Copyright © 2006. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
PEACH MELBA (Serves 2)

What you need
2 apples
2 juicy peaches
A punnet of raspberries
1 teaspoon of honey
200ml of natural bio-yoghurt

What to do
Cut the apples into wedges and put them through the juicer. Stone, then slice the peaches into the blender, then blend together with the raspberries, apple juice and honey until smooth. Add the yoghurt and pulse twice.

Customer Reviews

This is the one you've been waiting for
I am sick to the back teeth of weird Californian wannabe doctors trying to get me to drink cabbage juice three times a day. I want this book instead. Great recipes, wicked design, boat loads of practical info and some hidden gags to boot. If you're hungover; if you want to get healthy; if you want to get drunk without the hangover in the first place or if you just want something interesting to read; this is the book for you.

Excellent, Excellent, Excellent
Not much to say other than Excellent Book. It's very light hearted, great humour and we have tried about 4 recipes to date and they were all really good. I would recommend this to all my friends and if you're looking to start making smoothies for the first time I couldn't think of a better book to use.

Smoothie Dreams
I LOVE this book. After buying cartons of Innocent Smoothies, it is a joy to actually make the smoothies myself each morning! I haven't bought a juicer as yet, but have bought a blender and followed their instructions of just using pressed apple juice for now. I love the quirky way the book is written, and have had a few giggles with them. Easy to follow recipes and lots of good hints and tips. A much more exciting to way to get your 5 a day than munching through apples! This book is a must have! Well done Innocent!