This is one of my favorite breakfast smoothies. The sweet potatoes do double duty by making the smoothie extra sweet and extra creamy! Thanks to their carotenoids, sweet potatoes stabilize blood sugar and lower insulin resistance (a condition that can lead to diabetes), restoring energy and helping women shed up to eight pounds a week! Plus, their beta-carotene and vitamin C help eliminate the free radicals that contribute to heart disease and colon cancer.
BLEND:
- 2 small bananas (preferably frozen — I cut my bananas into segments before I freeze them)
- 1 fresh orange, peeled, seeded and juiced
- 1 cup milk or soy milk, like Vitasoy
- 1/4 cup cooked sweet potatoes, smashed with a fork
- 1/2 cup fat-free vanilla yogurt
Put everything in your blender (I recommend Vita-mix) and blend til smooth. Yummo and so good for you! Truly my favorite — you must give this a try and then please, please, please, leave a comment so the whole world will know just how great this is! Graci!
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Here’s why I recommend Vita-Mix …
Vita-Mix & Phytonutrients
If you know me at all, you know there is one kitchen appliance I am passionate about — my Vita-mix blender! Yes, it’s at the top of my “Couldn’t Live Without” list — and yes, you’re going to see a plug for it on every smoothie recipe I write because using a Vita-mix blender gives your smoothies much more nutritional value than any ordinary blender possibly can! And because I care about YOUR health!
Here’s the “skinny” — Vita-Mix processing breaks open the cell walls to release maximum nutrition from whole foods, more than you can get any other way.
Vita-mix gives you verything you’d want from a blender and more! No question about it — the Vita-Mix blender is superior to anything else on the market and well worth the investment!
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Great recipes I can’t wait to try these receipes out and see If lose weight.
I just tried this smoothie, it is great! i just threw the orange slices in, i didn’t juice them, so some seeds got blended up making the smoothie have a slight aftertaste, but other then that my new favorite breakfast.
I have been having Dr Oz Smoothie every morning for about a week, the one that was in woman world magazine. It is the best and i can feel the energy from it immediately. only thing different i do is use frozen blue berrys instead of ice, it is the best!!!
Ooooh Cathy… the frozen blueberries would be a nice change… though does the color get kind of funky with the green and blue? Love the extra antioxidants the blueberries would add, so maybe it’s worth a bit of funky color… LOL
This is my favorite smoothie — you cannot believe how wonderful it tastes! I use even more sweet potato than the recipe calls for (1/3 to 1/2 c) so I stay full longer. It tastes like an orange creamsicle or dreamsicle. I made it for my disbelieving friends, and they loved it too. I’m losing weight with smoothies and make this several times a week for breakfast or as a snack when I’m hungry and don’t want to fix food. I don’t usually have a fresh oranage, so I blend everything else and then add 1/2 c to 3/4 cup of orange juice (I like not from concentrate high pulp Simply Orange 100% orange juice) and it makes it super fast to make. This recipe makes 2 glasses. I use my vita-mixer every day and highly recommend it as well.
It’s one of my very favorites too Victoria! I’m glad you like it and thanks for sharing your enthusiasm. I hope your experience will encourage more people to try it! And yeah… ditto on the Vita-mixer! It’s on my “wouldn’t want to live without” appliance list!
i just found out about this website and can’t wait to try it.but i would really like to know does this great smoothie really helps you lose 8lbs a week and how long do i drink this.
There is some research that I read that showed it does help you lose weight. I don’t have the data at my fingertips, but if I find it again, I’ll post the report. So far as how long you drink it, I look at it like everything else… balance. I would presume the test subjects drank it every day for a week to get the reported benefits, but at this stage of my life, I’m not into dieting as much as I’m into healthy eating and balance in all aspects of my life. What I can tell you for sure is this is my favorite breakfast smoothie. It’s just delicious and if the combination of components helps my body release some weight, all the better
Thanks for stopping by and let me know you results, OK?