Practical Smoothies: The Fruit

Blend just yogurt and soy milk together and you’ll end up with something that doesn’t taste very good. You need to add fruit. Sepcifically, frozen fruit. Frozen fruit is what gives a smoothie its texture and its pleasantly cold temperature. Even one unfrozen ingredient will noticeably impact the smoothie’s texture.

Grocery stores and organic food megamarts sell a wide variety of flash-frozen fruit. Unless you have piles of free time, these stores will provide you with the bulk of your frozen fruit. The good news is that you can find a huge variety of frozen fruit in most stores — including cherries, blueberries, strawberries, peaches, pineapples, blackberries, raspberries and even premixed fruit blends.