Healthy Steps

Now that the spring time is coming soon that means that the fruits will be in season. So, I thought that I would name some fruits and say what benefits they provide. Therefore:

Vitamin A- Peaches, apples, apricots, and lemons.
Vitamin B- Bananas.
Vitamin C- Citrus fruits, strawberries, and honey dew melons.
Vitamin D- Orange juice.
Vitamin E- Kiwi and mangoes.
Vitamin K- Kiwifruit, plums, blueberries, apricots, grapes, peaches, and cantaloupe melon.
Vitamin P- Acerola cherries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, cherries, grapes, and the pulp of the citrus fruits.

You can also freeze the fruits and use them later in a fruit smoothie.
If you decide to freeze the washed fruit before you use it try putting each individual piece of fruit on a piece of wax paper on a cookie tray and place it in the freezer. Then, once frozen, take each piece and put it in the bag so that it is easier to take the fruit out once you finish. Also, when placing the fruit in the bag, be sure that, once the bag is filled, that you release as much air out of the bag as possible for easier storage.

So I have come up with some tasty fruit smoothie recipes and have decided to share them with you all.

Strawberry Delite
1 cup strawberries, hulled
1 banana, broken into chunks
1 peaches
1/4 cup orange-peach-mango juice
1/2 cup ice

Jess’s Fruit Medley Smoothie
2 one inch chunks of pineapple
2 small slices of mango
3 two inch chunks of bananas
7 strawberries, hulled
1 ½ cups of orange juice
½ cup of lemonade
1 cup of ice
1 apple
2 handfuls of Concord Grapes
2 tablespoon of raspberries
2 one inch chunks of cantaloupe
2 one inch chunks of honeydew Mellon
2 slices of kiwi (long ways)

Blend ‘till thick. If it turns out too thick, add more juice. If it turns out to watery, add more ice.

I hope you enjoyed this article and that you will try the recipes. They are very good!