Healthy additives for your smoothie!

Greens powder

Greens First is the best tasting "greens" drink I have found. Most greens drinks taste like grass in a pasture.  This one has a fresh minty taste, and is only 45 calories per serving.  It provides the nutritional value of 10 servings of fruits and vegetables, contains natural anti-inflammatory properties, has probiotics, enzymes for good digestive health and promotes optimal energy metabolism, fat burning, digestion, detoxification, immunity, repair, recovery, rejuvenation, and vital longevity.

Anti-aging and life extension benefits can be enjoyed.  It contains nutrients probably NOT found on your multivitamin label. Some include: phytonutrients (natural plant chemicals), polyphenols, isoflavones, sulforaphane, lycopene, leutein, indole-3-carbinol, anthrocyanins, alpha-carotene, flavonoids, catechins, and superoxide dismutase.

Wheatgrass powder           

Wheatgrass powder increases and sustains energy naturally, detoxifies and cleanses your body.  It’s high alkalinity helps balance acidic PH levels.  It also strengthens immune system, and is complete with enzymes, essential amino acids, and anti-oxidants. 

Per 8 gram serving, Amazing Grass Wheat Grass (shown above) offers:

A naturally balanced source of Phytonutrients and Carotenoids, 2X more dietary fiber than an 8 gram serving of oat bran, 2X more iron than a 30 gram serving of fresh spinach, as well as folic acid, beta carotene and vitamin C

Maca Powder

If you want to turn up the heat in the bedroom, try Maca powder – a root native to Peru. Maca has also been found to contain two different compounds that boost libido and fertility. These compounds are known as macamides and macaenes. They can positively affect the sex lives of both men and women who take maca.

Maca is also capable of regulating hormone production. This makes it a perfect answer for women dealing with menopause and men suffering from andropause.  Furthermore, the boost in natural hormones can also lead to virility that combats aging.  

Hazelnut Milk

Hazelnut milk is based entirely on a natural product – hazelnuts.  They posses many nutritious elements such as proteins, vitamins: E, B1, B2, B6, folic acid, and many minerals (manganese and magnesium for instance).  It also contains unsaturated fats, which are better for you than saturated ones contained in cow’s milk based products. 

It imparts a more “nutty” flavor than other nut milks such as almond, which, in my opinion, is much more neutral of a flavor. Hazelnut milk can be also a delicious replacement to be added to coffee and tea as a sweetener due to its delicious nutty taste, it can entirely change the whole drink's taste!

You can even make your own! Here’s a great recipe from Sweet Freedom!:

 Coconut Water 

A very good source of B-complex vitamins such as riboflavin, niacin, thiamin, pyridoxine, and folates. These vitamins are essential in the sense that the human body requires them from external sources to replenish.

Coconut water contains a very good amount of electrolyte potassium. 100 ml of water has 250 mg of potassium and 105 mg of sodium. Together, these electrolytes help replenish electrolyte deficiency in the body.  Further, fresh coconut water has a small amount of vitamin-C; It provides about 2.4 mg or 4% of RDA. 

Flaxseed

Flax seed is high in most of the B vitamins, magnesium, manganese and omega-3 fatty acids.  It contains ALA, which, is an Omega-3 that is a precursor to the fatty acids found in salmon and other fatty cold-water fish (called EPA and DHA). ALA has good effects of its own, and definitely helps in the Omega 3/6 balance.

Flax Seed is High in Fiber both soluble and insoluble.  This fiber is probably mainly responsible for the cholesterol-lowering effects of flax. Fiber in the diet also helps stabilize blood sugar, and, of course, promotes proper functioning of the intestines.

Flax seed is high in phytochemicals, including many antioxidants. It is perhaps our best source of lignans, which convert in our intestines to substances that tend to balance female hormones. There is evidence that lignans may promote fertility, reduce peri-menopausal symptoms, and possibly help prevent breast cancer. In addition, lignans may help prevent Type 2 diabetes.