An extremely quick, delicious and surprisingly healthy smoothie which makes offers the best in vegetarian. Don’t worry if you’re not a spinach person, this amazing smoothie will dilute the dull taste of the green vegetable and bring the best that it has to offer. The best thing is that there are hundreds of variations when it comes to recipes. These can include subtle changes such as adding bananas, strawberries, lime, or apple. But first, let’s focus on the basic ingredients.
Transfer the Spinach drink into a tumbler and sip on! Also, store it in your flask, so you can have a cup when you feel like it.
Health benefits
The health benefits of spinach cannot be overemphasized. But most people don’t really have a taste for spinach alone, which is why you can always add fruits such as bananas, apples and lime to help not only enrich the flavor but get more energy as well.
Spinach contains vitamin A, C, E, K and B6. It is high in niacin, thiamin, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorous and copper – the list could stretch on for another page. Together, the nutrients in spinach help to regulate blood flow, facilitate weight loss, increase strength of muscle fibers, strengthen bones, relieve stress from the circulatory system of the body, fight off cancer, lower the risk of developing asthma and help repair tissue damage.
For these reasons, spinach is considered a super food, which comes packed with dozens of nutrients in a low calorie package.
Ingredients
cup of milk: 1
large bananas, sliced and diced: 2
cup of packed spinach leaves: 3/4
lime: 1
How To Make Spinach drink
It’s incredibly easy to prepare. All you need to do is throw them all together in a blender, including the banana and spinach. Blend until the ingredients have thoroughly mixed together.
Trivia
- In 1933, the spinach market grew by about 33%. This coincided with the famous cartoon show Popeye the Sailor, which featured the famous muscular titular character who would eat spinach to gain superhuman strength and beat the much larger Bluto.
- Some artists like to extract the green pigment from spinach to use as ink on their canvas.
- Spinach is ideally eaten fresh. It will lose its nutritional properties with every passing day.
- California accounts for a staggering 74 percent of all spinach grown in the United States.
- The world’s largest producer of spinach is China, with a share of about 85% globally.
You should always wash spinach because bacteria like to hang on to the green vegetable.