Cacao Berry & Anti Inflammatory Smoothie Recipes

Cacao Berry & Anti-Inflammatory Smoothie Recipes

Who wouldn’t want to wake up to a powerful combo of magnesium-rich chocolate and a hit of sweet antioxidants in the morning? This combo contains everything you need to set yourself up to thrive. And with the help of cacao’s brain-stimulating properties, it will enhance your mood and attitude for the day.

Serves: 2

GF, V, VG

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This is the ultimate smoothie; it helps to clean and prime the gut, it repopulates your good bacteria, feeds them with healthy prebiotic rich fibres and also provides the amino acids needed to repair and rebuild the intestinal wall, strengthening it, so that you can absorb more nutrients from the foods that you’re eating.

If you don’t have access to fresh vegetables for these smoothie recipes, it’s OK to use whatever you have frozen. I’m growing kale and rocket in the garden at the moment, and I put it into the freezer and use that. It’s easy to grow even if you have it in a pot. Don’t forget that it’s OK to freeze your greens like spinach, kale and rocket too. That way you can always be sure to have vegetables on notice whenever you need them.

Serves: 2

GF, V

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Cacao Berry & Anti-Inflammatory Smoothie Recipes

By: Lee Holmes

Looking for your go-to holiday snack? Sip on these nutrient-packed summer smoothies to enhance your mood, boost your energy and give you the ultimate refresh!


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Prep time

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Recipe


Ingredients

  • 1 cup blueberries
  • 1¼ cups raspberries
  • 1 banana, peeled
  • ½ cup strawberries
  • 200 mL milk of choice
  • 1 tbsp cacao powder

Method


  • Combine all the ingredients in a blender and whiz until smooth.
  • Tip: You can use frozen fruit, it doesn’t need to be fresh!

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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