Lots of great recipes with all the nutritional benefits of over 100 fruits and vegetables

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #322274 in Books
• Published on: 2003-09-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Synopsis
A complete guide to delicious and nutritious drinks detailing the nutrient values and healing properties of over 100 fruits and vegetables with over 250 recipes for smoothies, health tips, preparation techniques and more. One of the easiest and most delicious ways to consume the recommended 5 to 10 servings a day of fruits and vegetables is to drink them. Packed with nutrients and low in calories, smoothies are a fast, easy and great tasting way to achieve good health.

The Smoothies Bible is the most comprehensive source of information to explore and detail the health benefits of these easy-to-make drinks, including: Watermelon Wave, Mega Melon Supreme, Strawberry Blush, Flu Fighter, C-Blitz, Green Goddess, Spa Special, Spring Celebration, Spiced Carrot, Blazing Beets, Sage Relief, Flaming Antibiotic, Cajun Cocktail, Mellow Yellow, Mango Madness * More than 300 healing/healthy smoothie recipes * Over 100 fully illustrated profiles of various fruits, vegetables and herbs * 80 common health concerns matched with prescriptive smoothies * A wide range of recipes, with metric measurements throughout: fruit smoothies; vegetable smoothies; herb smoothies; dairy and dairy alternative smoothies; and hot, cold and frozen smoothies * Robert Rose is a subsidiary imprint of Firefly Books Ltd, specialising in cookery and health titles.

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Customer Reviews

Best of it's kind
This is the only smoothies book that I have found that doesn't just bang on about how to make nice fruit juices with yoghurt and ice-cream (though there are some such recipies), but also gives a large range of ideas for using vegetables and even herbs in smoothies aswell. The focus of the book is health-improvement, and it contains a comprehensive list of ailments and the specific ingredients that can help each one, as well as advice on what to avoid. For each ailment, it then recommends a selection of smoothies from the recipes section which are particularly helpful for that condition. There is also well-laid out information on the benefits of each fruit, vegetable and herb. The only thing you need to be prepared for is that many of the smoothies include juice as one of the ingredients, and so the book will be far more usable if you have a juicer as well as a blender.

A science project, not a recipe book.
If you are looking for a book you can pick up and make a quick smoothie this is the wrong book. It's more a science project than a recipe book, information overload.

This book was written for the American market, some of the ingredients are difficult if not impossible to find in the UK, you'd spend a long time searching for alternatives.

This book was in my possession for only a short time only, I returned it asap. I have no doubt that the information is accurate and I'm sure that the author spent a great deal of time researching her subject.

If, like me, all you want is a book with ideas to make delicious healthy smoothies, this is not that book.

Informative - and a refreshing change!
If you're looking for a smoothie book packed with information on plant and fruit properties, common health concerns with suggested smothie remedies, [including which ingredients to avoid], and a wide range of recipes then this is the book for you! It makes a refreshing change to the run of the mill 'fruit and yoghurt / ice-cream' book with recipes for herb smoothies, vegetable smoothies, fruit smoothies, dairy and dairy alternatives, hot, cold and frozen smoothies... well worth buying - and you're body will love you for it!!