Tips for Making Fast and Easy Citrus Fruit Smoothies

Getting more healthy citrus fruit and citrus juice into your daily meals has never been easier. Whip up a healthy citrus fruit smoothie for breakfast, for dessert, or for a quick snack throughout the day and you will be getting all the nutritional benefits of a full serving of citrus fruit without the mess of eating a whole fruit. Making smoothies is easy because you can put almost anything you like into a smoothie. Here are some tips on how to make fast and easy citrus fruit smoothies:

Substitute citrus fruit juice for water in smoothie recipes – Just a simple substitution can add sweetness and a great deal of nutrition to any smoothie recipe. If you already have a few tried and true smoothie recipes that you love reinvent them by using sweet Honeybell orange juice instead of water, or use Blood orange juice to change the color, or use grapefruit juice to add a sweet and sour flavor. That simple substitution can dramatically improve the health benefits of the smoothie.

Add chilled chunks of citrus fruit – Before mixing add some chilled, peeled and cubes citrus fruit of any type you like. When the smoothie is blended the fruit chunks will give the smoothie a great consistency and help make sure the smoothie is nice and cold. Chilled citrus fruit chunks are an easy way to make sure that you get all of the servings of fruit that you need every day. Chilled citrus segments also make a good snack on their own, or tossed with a little balsamic vinegar and sugar.

Skip the yogurt – If you want to cut down on calories do not leave out the fruit juice, leave out the yogurt. A simple smoothie of fresh or frozen fruit blended with citrus juice is a delicious low calorie breakfast or snack that will still have all the fantastic nutritional benefits of eating citrus fruit without extra calories. Citrus fruits are very low in calories, and they are very calorie dense. Calorie dense foods pack a lot of nutrition into every calorie consumed so that your body is getting a lot of what it needs in every calorie of food. Calorie dense foods are ideal for the body. Smoothies made with ice cream or high fat yogurt will have a creamier texture but are high in calories so people who want to watch their calorie intake should skip those ingredients and keep the citrus juice.

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