Purple Green-Smoothie

Green Smoothies are all the rage.  And for good reason.   Full of Raw and often Wild Greens they are packed with healthy minerals, vitamins and medicinal compounds.   The embodiment of  the Raw Food and Whole Food ideals they are touted for providing enzymes and compounds found only in plants.   When Wild Edibles are used in the Green Smoothie, we are utilizing plants with which we co-evolved.  This co-evolution developing compounds in the plant that nourish us and heal us.

The taste of the Green Smoothie is earthy and tastes like spring, like Nature.  In a sense, it tastes Green.

Today, I mixed it up.  Into my Green Smoothie, containing the usual  suspects including Plantain, Dandelion, Clover and all, I added Wild Blackberries and Huckleberries picked this season, and frozen overnight.  It’s not necessary to freeze them, but it made the Smoothie ice cold and somewhat thicker.   I added to it some cold brewed Green Tea.

The taste was entirely transformed and quite interesting.  Not surprisingly the Berries took front stage, but the Green Tea made it taste lighter and refreshing and kept the Berries from dominating.   I could taste subtle notes of the Wild Edible Greens, like old friends that quitely and reliably stand behind you and “got your back”.

The Cold Brewed Green Tea addition was a nice transforming addition and stretched my smoothie out giving me another glass, which is always appreciated on a hot summer day.

• What ways do you Mix-it up with your Green Smoothies?
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• To see Melissa make a Green Smoothie, check out her video here: Melissa Making Green  Smoothie.

Enjoy,

Jason