Enjoyable Smoothie Mixtures that Move Your Colon Walls to Action

Method 53: Fruit Smoothies

Fruit smoothies provide you a different way to eat fruits. Smoothies mixed with other ingredients and nutrients can serve as a way to clear your constipation. Smoothies can be created that help build, cleanse, and heal your body.

In cases where you are depleted of various vitamins and minerals, smoothies are a way to bring these nutrients quickly into your body.

The smoothies listed here also provide you with plenty of fiber.

Once your smoothie is made, drink it within a few minutes. The smoothie ingredients will start to decay quickly as it has air mixed in from the blending process. If you fill a thermos to the top, you can use the smoothie for later.

In her book, The Big Book of Juices and Smoothies, 2003, Natalie Savona, gives some hints on storing your smoothie.

Smoothie Base

Here is how you build a smoothie that can give many health benefits. The smoothie base is liquid slurry that can be used to add more ingredients.

The liquid base can be made from various fresh juices or rice, oat, or almond milk. I stay away from milk since milk creates mucus along the gastrointestinal lining. Choose and mix any of the following liquid and pour them into a blender.

• Juices – apple, pineapple, orange, tangerine
• Milk – rice dream, oat milk, almond milk

I use a combination of 40% rice dream, 40% almond milk, and 20% apple juice. You can use the combinations you like. Sometimes I might just use all rice dream.

Sesame Milk

You can also make sesame milk and use this in your smoothies.

In his book, Blending Magic, Bernard Jensen, Nutritionist, has a really nice recipe for sesame milk.

In place of 2 cups of distilled water use 1 cup of water and 1 cup of low-fat rice dream and leave out the 2 tablespoons of soy milk powder. This will make this drink less fattening.

Banana Base

Next, I always put in a banana. This gives the liquid a bit more thickness. Also bananas are high in potassium and other minerals. They contain little fiber and yet do not create constipation.

I freeze bananas so when I am out of fresh ones I can use frozen ones.

Main Ingredients

Next, I choose a fruit that will be the main ingredient so you can say you are making a strawberry smoothie or a blueberry smoothie. If you have fresh organic fruit, then this is the best way to create your smoothie. What I do is freeze fruit during its season so I can have some of this fruit a bit longer than its seasonal run. Choose from fruits that are in season.

• Avocado
• Cantaloupe
• Peach, mango, papaya
• Pineapple, apricots, apples
• Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries
• Figs
• Dried prunes, peaches, apricots, figs

Once you have your basic smoothie, you can add other nutrients that will provide you with additional fiber, oil, vitamins, minerals, and many other nutrients.

Here is a short list of some of the ingredients you can add to your smoothies. Add only 2-3 other ingredients so the tastes don’t get too complex or unusual.

• Almonds
• Beet Juice powder
• Blackstrap molasses
• Capra mineral whey
• Chia Seeds
• Distilled water Ice cubes
• Edible dairy whey
• Fig Juice syrup
• Flaxseed and flaxseed oil
• Honey, rice syrup
• Lecithin granules
• Powder vitamin C
• Raisins
• Rice or oat bran
• Sesame seeds
• Sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds
• Wheat germ

Smoothie Recipes

So, here are a few smoothie recipes you can blend.

• Apple Smoothie
• Apple-Barley Smoothie
• Apricot Smoothie
• Peach-Rice Dream Smoothie
• Pineapple Smoothie
• Strawberry Smoothie
• Sweet-Yams-Banana Smoothie
• Papaya Smoothie
• Prune and Apple Juice Blend
• Banana Fig Smoothie
• High Fiber Breakfast Smoothie
• Mango Cool Smoothie
• Mango Passion Smoothie
• Papaya Smoothie

Apple Smoothie

Mix in the blender the following.

• 1-2 small apples cut into wedges
• 1 banana
• 1 cup 50:50 rice dream: almond milk
• ¼ cup or less of raisins soaked overnight
• 1-teaspoon honey
• 1-2 cubes of ice
• 1-teaspoon lecithin granules
• 2 teaspoons flaxseed oil

Start by mixing the banana and the liquids. Then add slices of apples to get the consistency you like.

Apple-Barley Smoothie

Mix in the blender the following.

• 1 cup of sliced apples with peel
• 1/2 cup of cooked barley
• 1/4 cup of soaked raisins
• 1/4 teaspoon of vanilla flavoring
• 1–1 ½ cup of 50:50 rice dream: almond milk
• 1-teaspoon lecithin granules
• 2 teaspoons flaxseed oil

Apricot Smoothie

• One cup of fresh apricots or dried apricots that were soaked overnight
• Juice of 1/2 a lemon
• Two oz. of prune juice
• One teaspoon or more of oat ban
• One teaspoon of mineral whey

Add a slight amount of distilled water to make the consistency to your liking.

Peach-Rice Dream Smoothie

Mix in the blender:

• 2 fresh peaches with peel
• 1-cup rice dream
• 1/2 banana
• 1-teaspoon sesame seeds
• 1-teaspoon sunflower seed
• 1-teaspoon lecithin granules
• 2 teaspoons flaxseed oil

Pineapple Smoothie

Mix the following in a blender.

• 1-2 cups of fresh pineapples
• 1/2 cups apple slices
• 1/4 cup fresh apple juice
• 1/2 cup rice dream (more or less as needed)
• 1 banana
• 1-teaspoon lecithin
• 1-teaspoon flax seeds
• 2 teaspoons bran (wheat, oat or rice)

Strawberry Smoothie

Mix in a blender the following ingredients.

• 1 banana
• 1-teaspoon of lecithin granules
• 1-teaspoon of any type of bran
• 1 cup or more 50:50 rice dream: almond milk
• Now add strawberries one by one with the blender on until you get the consistency you like.
• Now in a coffee grinder, grind the following and add them to the blended strawberry mix:
• 1-teaspoon flax seeds
• 1 or 2 teaspoon sunflower seeds
• 1-teaspoon sesame seeds

Sweet-Yams-Banana Smoothie

Mix the following together.

• 1-2 cups of baked yams or sweet potatoes
• 1 small banana
• 1-teaspoon honey or maple syrup
• 1 cup of rice dream (more or less as needed)
• 1-teaspoon lecithin granules
• 1-teaspoon flax seed oil
• 2 teaspoons of bran you like

You can make the consistency to be pudding-like and pour into small cups, place in the refrigerator to cool and then serve.

Papaya Smoothie

In his book, The Juicing Book, 1989, Stephen Blauer lists a papaya smoothie.

To improve these smoothies for relieving constipation add a couple of slices of apple and papaya into the blender to provide some fiber. Then add some lecithin, ground up flax seeds.

Soaking Dried Fruits

To use dried fruit in your smoothies, you need to soak them. Why soak them?

Soaking them in hot water kills any insects, parasite and other pathogens on the fruit. Soaking makes the fruit more digestible and available for absorption Unsoaked fruit can cause gas to form in the stomach since it takes more time for the digestive juices to penetrate them and dissolve them.

Soaking them prevents the fruit from passing out the rectum undigested. Undigested fruit can petrify in your colon when you have constipation.

Here’s how to soak your dried fruit.

Twelve hours before or the night before using the fruit, place the fruit in a glass pot and cover slightly with distilled water.

Heat the water just too where it starts to boil and pull the pot off the stove. Cover and let sit overnight the next morning used the soaked fruit in the blender.

Soak all dried fruits in this manner, including raisins. When using dried apricots use only naturally dried apricots without sulfur. These don’t look nice and colorful. They look dark and wrinkled but they are healthier.

Prune and Apple Juice Blend

Rinse prunes in distilled water to remove any dirt or contamination. Soak 3/4 cup or more of prunes overnight. Just slightly cover the prunes with distilled water. In the morning, blend prunes with its water and one cup of apple juice. Add a couple of slices of apple with its peel. Squeeze 1/2 lemon and blend again.

Add more apple juice to get the consistency you like.

This makes a great morning drink to get your bowel moving later in the morning.

Banana Fig Smoothie

Use 1 cup of rice dream, almond milk, and soymilk mixture. You can use just one of these liquids or all combined. Add one banana and figs to get the thickness you like.

After you have blended this mixture add the following:

• 1 teaspoon of sesame seeds
• 1 teaspoon or more of lecithin
• 1 teaspoon or more of flaxseed oil

This mixture will give you many minerals and nutrients and in addition help as a natural laxative drink

High Fiber Breakfast Smoothie

Here’s a drink you can prepare in the morning and can serve as breakfast.

In a blender add,

• One half a banana that is not overripe
• One half an apple
• A few strawberries, fresh or frozen
• ¾ cup or so of rice dream, almond milk, or organic soymilk
• One rounded teaspoon of each bran – wheat, rice, and oat.
• One tablespoon of lecithin granules
• One teaspoon of flaxseed oil

The bran will help you bulk up your stool.

One of the best books on making smoothies is called Super Smoothies, by Candia Lea Cole. The ingredients in her book are good for helping clear constipation. By adding a few more ingredients, as listed above under “More Nutrients to Add”, to these smoothies, it will help to create super smoothies for clearing constipation. Most of her smoothies use those fruits and vegetables that help constipation.

Mango Cool Smoothie

Combine the following in a blender:

• One peeled and cored mango
• 1/4 to 1/2 cup of orange juice
• 1/2 banana
• A few ice cubes to give it some consistency
• Teaspoon of flaxseed oil
• Teaspoon to tablespoon of oat bran
• Teaspoon of sesame seeds

Apple Prune Syrup

• Cut 2 small apples into small chunks. Blend raisins, sesame seeds, and prune juice in a blender. Use plenty of these items to produce a syrup consistency, pour the blended items over the apples and eat.
• Mango Passion Smoothie

Mix in a blender:

• One mango
• Pineapple slices
• One passion fruit
• Rice dream
• Six almonds ground in a coffee grinder
• One teaspoon of flaxseed oil
• One tablespoon of lecithin granules or liquid

Papaya Smoothie

Mix in a blender:

• One cupful of papaya
• 1/2 banana
• Juice of one lime or lemon
• Add apple juice to get the consistency you like
• One teaspoon of flaxseed oil
• One teaspoon of goat mineral whey
• One tablespoon of edible dairy whey

Now you have various ingredients that are good for relieving constipation. You can make your combination according to your taste and enjoyment. If you have ordered edible dairy whey, use it with all of your smoothies.