The best way to consume fruit is raw, with its skin or with the skin peeled off on an empty stomach or 20 minutes before other meals. If you're not such a fruit-eater and want to have more from the good stuff, the best way to start eating fruit is to squeeze fruit juices. In this way you can get used to fruit and after drinking juices for a while you'll see that your appetite to have raw fruits will increase.

To meet your "five to nine pieces of fresh fruits a day" you can squeeze the fruits instead of peeling them and eating them by hand. Squeezing is much more efficient: one glass of 2 squeezed oranges, 2 mandarins and 1 grapefruit can be squeezed in 5 minutes. If you eat 1 banana afterwards you already have consumed 6 pieces of fresh fruits! This also means that you can consume the largest part of the required nutritional elements you need for a day in just 10 minutes....

 

Some people worry that  many fibers are lost when they squeeze fruit. What they have to know is that squeezed fruit is as healthy as eating a piece of raw fruit out of your hand. Unlike many people think there is not a whole lot of fruit flesh lost when you squeeze fruit. This means that your glass of orange juice does contain all the fibers you need!

These fibers prevent from many diseases. Fibers stimulate the digestive system so if you have a substantial amount of fruit intake it is not necessary to eat bran or other intestine stimulating foods.

Create at least one fresh vitamin dosis a day, it will also cheer you up!
There is a huge variety of fruits.
Just wait until you get started with mangos, strawberries, peaches, apricots, limes and melons! There are thousands of combinations possible!
 
Tips

- Squeeze at least one fruit drink a day. In this way you eat about 3 to 4 fruits so you can fulfill your daily need;

- Put some ice cubes in the blender with your juice. This cools your fruit drink quickly in summer

- Put a little bit of banana in your juice mix and blend it like a milk-shake. This gives your fruit drink a certain softness and reduces the bitterness (caused by grapefruits for example)

- Take sweet fruits to blend. Use citrus fruits (oranges, red-grapefruits) as a basis and mix it in the blender with the sweet fruits of your choice. You can squeeze a jar of orange juice that you keep in the fridge and blend it with the fruit of your choice when you want to.

 

Healthy Fruit Juice and Smoothy Recipes

 

Watermelon Juice (serves 1)

Ingredients

• 2 cups chopped seeded watermelon

• 1 cup crushed ice

• 2 teaspoons honey

• 1/4 teaspoon black pepper

• fresh mint (optional garnish)

 

Directions

1. Combine watermelon, ice, honey, and black pepper in a blender.

2. Blend until smooth.

3. Garnish with mint.

4. Serve chilled.

5. Stir well before serving.

 

Pink delight (serves 2)

Ingredients

• 1 cup sliced banana

• 3/4 cup frozen strawberry

• 1/2 cup red grapefruit juice

• 1/2 cup orange juice

• 1/2 cup crushed ice

 

Directions

1. Combine all ingredients in blender until smooth.

 

Pink Perfection Juice (serves 4)

Ingredients

• 2 cups hulled strawberries

• 1 cup chopped watermelon

• Juice of 2 freshly squeezed oranges

• Juice of1 freshly squeezed lime

 

Directions

1. Combine all of the ingredients in a blender or food processor until smooth.

2. Cover and chill.

3. Before serving, shake or stir then pour into chilled glasses.

 

 

Mixed Fruit Explosion Smoothie (serves 2)

Ingredients

• 1 large banana, peeled and cut into small pieces

• 2 kiwi fruits, peeled and quartered

• 1/2 cup peeled and diced mango

• 1/2 cup peeled and diced papaya

• 1 cup freshly squeezed orange juice

• 3 ice cubes

 

Directions

1. Combine all ingredients in blender and whip until smooth.

 

 

Citrus Fruit Smoothie (serves 8)

Ingredients

• 5 cups grapefruit juice

• 3 cups orange juice

• 1 cup water

• 4 medium firm bananas, cut up and frozen

• 12 frozen strawberries

 

Directions

1. In a blender, place half of each ingredient; cover and process until smooth.

2. Pour into a pitcher.

3. Repeat.

4. Serve immediately.

 

 

Happy drink (serves 1)

Ingredients

• 1 scoop vanilla ice cream

• 1 kiwi, quartered and peeled

• 1/2 banana, peeled as well please

• 1 cup orange juice

Directions

 
1. Put it all in a blender and blend.

2. You now have your breakfast drink to start your day!

 

 

Tropical fruit smoothie (serves 2)

Ingredients

• 1/2 small papaya

• 1/2 pear

• 1/2 nectarine or peach

• 1/2 banana

• 170g fruit yogurt 

 

Directions

1. Whirl everything together and enjoy!

2. If the mixture is thick, you can always add a little milk or juice, or add an orange to the combo to lighten it up a bit.

 

 

Banana Nog (for 1-2 persons)

Ingredients

• 1 cup milk (can use 1 1/2 cups)

• 1 banana

• 1 tablespoon sugar

• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla

• 5-7 ice cubes

 
Directions

1. Combine all ingredients in blender.

2. Blend at slow speed to break up ice.

3. Blend at highest speed for 1 minute.

 

Strawberry Smoothie (serves 4)

Ingredients

• 170g vanilla-flavored milk

• 2 pints frozen strawberries

• 1 teaspoon artificial sweetener

 

Directions

1. Blend all ingredients together until smooth, then serve.

 

Refreshing Watermelon Frozen Slushy (serves 6)

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup sugar

• 1/2 cup water

• 3 cups cubed watermelon (without seeds) or  melon

• 1 1/2 cups ice cubes

• Juice of 1/2 lemon, plus grated rind

• 1 cup cooled strong-brewed tea, from a cherry or almond tea bag (you can try other flavors, too)

 

Directions

1. Heat the sugar and water, stirring constantly, until the sugar melts.

2. Set aside to cool.

3. Put all the remaining ingredients, including the dissolved sugar syrup, in a blender and blend just long enough to achieve that icy-mush quality.

4. Serve immediately, in tall frosty glasses.