Oranges, pineapple and mango smoothie

Blend together the juice of 2 freshly squeezed oranges with half a large pineapple and a very bug mango to obtain two pints of a succulent smoothie in which both the flavour of the pineapple and the mango can be tasted to utter delight.

Mark: 10/10 Too perfect for any another mark :-)

Oranges, pineapple, banana and dates

Blend together the juice of 3 freshly squeezed oranges with a third of a very long pineapple, a banana and a couple of dates to obtain 2 pints of a deliciously tasty smoothie.

Mark: 9/10 as I would prefer the taste of banana to be even more subtle.

Grapefruit, pineapple, pear and dates smoothie

Blend together the juice of a freshly squeezed pink grapefruit, with a sixth of a very long pineapple, a pear and a couple of dates to obtain a pint of a succulent smoothie.

Mark: 10/10

Banana and coconut smoothie

Blend together a third of a coconut milk can with 3 bananas to obtain a pint of a delicious banana smoothie.

Mark: 8.5/10 as not necessarily an healthy option.. :-)

Oranges, pineapple, pears and dates

Blend together the juice of two freshly squeezed oranges with a quarter of a very long pineapple with two peeled and cut pears, and a handful of dates to obtain over a pint of a very nice sweet and tasty smoothie. All fruits with the exception of the oranges can be tasted

Mark: 10/10

Melon, banana, mint and dates

Blend together a small green melon with a banana, some fresh mints leaves cut in small pieces and a few dates ( around 5) to obtain over a pint of a refreshing and summery smoothie.

Mark: 9/10

coconut and banana smoothie

In a blender pour a quarter of a can of coconut milk, 3 bananas, add some water if you don't have enough liquid to obtain a pint of a very nice smoothie with a light coconut milk. Add more coconut milk if you want a stronger taste. I had added almost as much water as coconut milk.

Mark: 8/10 ( as I would have prefer to taste more the coconut)

Oranges, pineapple and pears smoothie

Blend together the juice of 2 freshly squeezed oranges, with a quarter of a very big pineapple and two peeled and cut pears to obtain a very refreshing and tasty smoothie.

Mark: 8/10

Apples, carrots and celery cleansing juice

Juice together 3 organic apples, with 7 or so small/medium organic carrots and two branches of organic celery, to obtain a very refreshing and cleansing drink.

Mark 8/10

Red exotic winter delice

I liked so much the smoothie I prepared on Monday, that I thought I will do it again today with a very small addition: some pomegranates.

Hence, blend together the juice of one freshly squeezed pink grapefruit, half a pineapple, a mango, a papaya , and some pomegranates to obtain two pints of an excellent orange/red smoothie, in which pretty much all flavours except the grapefruit can be tasted.

Mark:9.5/10

banana, pomegranate and coconut milk smoothie

Blend together 3 small bananas with some coconut milk and some pomegranates to obtain a small pint of nice but nothing more smoothie.

Mark: 6/10

Exotic winter delice

Blend together the juice of one freshly squeezed pink grapefruit, half a pineapple, a mango, and a papaya to obtain two pints of an excellent smoothie, in which pretty much all flavours except the grapefruit can be tasted.


Mark: 9.5/10

Grapefruit, mango and pineapple sweet tooth booster

Blend together the juice of a freshly squeezed grapefruit with a medium mango cut and peeled and half a pineapple to obtain over a pint of a tasty and sweet smoothie, in which both pineapple and mango can be fully recognised.

Mark: 9/10

Grapefruit, papaya, pinapple

Blend together the juice of a freshly squeezed grapefruit, with a papaya and half a pineapple to obtain over a pint of a sweet smoothie

Mark: 9/10

Apple, pear and mango delice

Juice 4 organic pears and 3 organic apples to obtain a nice and sweet juice that you blend with two medium mangoes to obtain over a pint of a delicious and smooth smoothie. As usual the taste of the pear is dominant, the texture of the smoothie consistent with pear and mango.

Mark: 9.5/10

Melon, mango, banana and date smoothie

Blend together a small melon, a medium mango, half a banana and 4 or 5 dates to obtain a pint of a nice and sweet refreshing smoothie. Please note that in this combination the taste of the melon is not overcoming as it can sometimes be.

Mark:9/10

The usual delice

Blend together the juice of a freshly squeezed grapefruit with half a pineapple and a medium mango to obtain a pint of a delicious sweet and tasty smoothie.

Mark: 10/10

Skip this one

Blend together a melon, a medium mango, a handful of wolfberries, and some dates to obtain a pint of an extremely sweet and weird smoothie.

Hence mark: 3/10

Pineapple, mango, pears and grapefruits smoothie

Blend together 3 peeled cut pears, half a pineapple, a medium peeled and cut mango with the juice of 2 freshly squeezed pink grapefruit to obtain two pints of a lovely, sweet, tasty and smooth ( yes I meant it) smoothie.

Mark: 9/10

Melon, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, banana and dates

Blend together a small peeled and cut melon, with a small banana, a couple ( 5ish) dates, and some raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries to obtain a pint and a half of a very red melony smoothie. As the melon is unfortunately predominant. Which is kind of strange since the red colour, will not let you guess such a taste. I will need to try it with less melon as a bit overpowering for me. Dates and raspberries could be tasted as well on a few occasions.

Mark: 5/10 mainly due to the over melony taste

Pear, pineapple, date and banana smoothie

Juice 4 pears and half a pineapple, then blend the juice with a small banana and a handful of dates to obtain a pint of nice and sweet smoothie. Unfortunately, the taste of the pears and pineapple were a bit lost under the banana and dates ones.

Mark: 8/10

Pinapple, mango, date and grapefruit

Today's smoothie was made by blended together the juice of two freshly squeezed pink grapefruits, half a pineapple, a medium peeled and cut mango and a few dates. This gave a pint of a nice and sweet smoothie.

Mark: 8/10

Banana light milkshake

Blend together rice milk with three bananas to obtain one pint of a light and smooth banana milkshake.

Mark: 8/10

Mango, passion fruits, strawberries, dates, pinapple and oranges

Blend together the juice of 3 freshly squeezed oranges with half a pinapple, 1 large mango, the contents of 4 passion fruits, a handful of strawberries and a few dates to obtain 2 pints of a perfect smoothie, sweet, mouthful, tasty with a bit of consistence.

Mark: 10+/10

Mango, pineapple, passion fruits, oranges and dates

Blend together the juice of 3 freshly squeezed oranges with half a pineapple, 1 medium mango, the contents of 3 passion fruits and a few dates to obtain 2 pints of a perfect smoothie, sweet, mouthful, tasty with a bit of consistence.

Mark: 10/10

Oranges, Mango and pinapple

Having now been back home a few days and having settled down again, I started making my smoothies again as well.

Today, I blended together the juice of 2 freshly squeezed oranges with half a medium pinapple and a mango. I obtained over a pint of a perfectly smooth drink :-) And a very tasty one, full of summer promises... quite needed on today's grey sky in London..

Mark: 9/10

An exquisite banana milkshake

Mix together a large banana, with a handful of dates (circa 8), some maple syrup and some rice milk to obtain a pint of sweet, delightful banana milkshake..

Not necessarily small in calories, I still truly recommend this little delight..:-)

Mark: 9/10

Perfect summer

Blend together the juice of two freshly squeezed oranges, with half a melon, 2 medium mangoes, a banana, mint leaves and 6 dates to obtain 2 pints of a very resfreshing, perfectly sweet and tasty smoothie.

Mark: 10/10

Perfect spring/summer welcoming taste

Blend together half a melon with a handful of strawberries, a medium banana and some mint leaves to obtain a pint of perfect smoothie, refreshing, subtle with taste of all ingredients.

Mark:10/10

melon, mango and pears

Blend together half a melon with a medium mango and 3 peeled and cut pears, to get 2 pints of a very freshing smoothie were the taste of melon was predominant.

Mark 6/10 as becaus eof the melon predominance it seems a bit tasteless

Banana, oranges,strawberries and mint

Blend together the juice of 2 freshly squeezed oranges, with a large banana, some strawberries ans some fresh mint leaves to obtain a large pint of a fresh (banana based smoothie in terms of consistent) drink.

Mark: 8/10

Sweet colourful summer

Blend together the juice of 3 freshly squeezed oranges with a peeled and cut medium mango, 6-8 strawberries, 5-6 dates and some mint to obtain one pint of a very nice, sweet and refreshing smoothie. Full of flavours and savours.

Mark: 10/10

Orange dated pears

I just could not resist the play on words...:-)

Blend together the juice of two freshly squeezed oranges with 2 cut and peeled pears, a small/medium mango, and 5 or 6 dates to obtain a pint of a very nice sweet on different layers smoothie.

Mark: 10/10

Perfect Red

Blend together the juice of 2 freshly squeezed oranges, with a handful of strawberries, a peeled and cut medium mangoes and 6/7 dates, to obtain 1 pint of smooth, consistent, succultent and melting on the tongue drink.

Mark: 10/10

Smoothies are in the air

More and more people talk or write about smoothies.

Here is one of those articles, which, while remaining very superficial, still highlights some interesting facts.

Tangerines, stawberries and nectarines

Blend together the juice of 3 freshly squeezed tangerines with a handful of strawberries and 2/3 nectarines to obtain a pint of a very liquid and bittersweet smoothie.

Mark: 7/10 ( as it felt to me like something was missing)

Variant of mango delight

Blend together the juice of 2 freshly squeezed oranges, and one freshly squeezed pink grapefruit with 2 peeled and sliced medium mango to obtain 2 large glasses of a liquid mango smoothie. My preference remains with the blissfl mango delight, which puree-like consistence was more of my taste.

Nevertheless, a good smoothie, hence a mark of 8/10.

Blissful Mango Delight

Blend together the juice of two freshly squeezed oranges with 2 peeled and cut medium mangoes, to obtain what can only be described as a blissful or even heavenly mango delight. Makes over a pint.

Mark: 10/10 ( it should almost in fact be 100/10 :-) as it is so good)

Orange, banana, mango, strawberrry and kiwi smoothie

Blend together the juice of 3 freshly squezzed oranges with a medium cut and peeled mango, a medium cut and peeled banana, a few strawbeeries, and one cut and peeled kiwi, to obtain a full pint of a refreshing smotthie.

Mark: 7/10 ( as even though you can identify all fruits, I was expecting better, someting is slighlty odd is this combination)

Oranges, pinapple, mango and strawberries

Blend together the uice of 2 freshly squeezed oranges, with half a medium pinapple (peeled and cut), one medium Mango ( peeled and cut) and a handful of strawberries ( peeled and cut) to obtain 2 pints of a perfect smoothie. Tasty, refreshing, colourful, and melting on the tongue.

mark 10/10

Pink grapefruit, pears and mangoes

I so enjoyed the last smoothie on satruday morning, that I decided to make another one very similar to it.

Blend together the juice of two freshly squeezed pink grapefruit with 3 peeled and cut pears and two peeled small mangoes to obtain a perfectly balance and succulent smoothie. Makes two pints.

Mark: 10/10 (I am biased to pears and mangoes :-))

The only drawback is that the taste of pears goes slightly over the mangoes. So you might want to try it with fewer pears.

Orange, pears and mango

Blend together the juice of two freshly squeezed oranges with 3 peeled and cut pears and one peeled medium mango to obtain a perfectly balance and succulent smoothie. Makes two pints.

Mark: 10/10 (I am biased to pears and mangoes :-))

Limes, lemons, bananas and kiwis disaster

Blend together the juice of 2 freshly squeezed lemons and 2 freshly squeezed limes, with 2 small bananas and 2 peeled kiwis to obtain one large glass of a very disgusting drink. The limes and the kiwis did not seem to blend well together.

Mark: 2/10

Oranges, pinapple, kiwis and banana smoothie

Blend together the juice of two freshly squeezed oranges with half a pinapple, 2 kiwis, and 2 small bananas to obtain 1.5 pints of a very tasty smoothie, i.e. the flavour of all the fruits, except oranges, can be tasted.

Mark: 8/10 mainly due to the fact I am not such a great fan of kiwi...

Oranges, pinapple and strawberries

Blend together the jucie of 2 freshly squeezed oranges with half a pinapple, and 7/8 strawberries to obtain 1.5 pints of a nice and tasty smoothie.

Mark: 9/10

Banana and avocado smoothie

Blend together 2 smallish bananas and one avocado, with a bit of water.

And you get a large glass of a very thick smoothie.

Once I am no longer on detox, I would need to try this with honey, or even a bit of milk such as oatmilk or almond milk to see how this impacts the taste.

Mark: 8/10

Oranges, Mangoes and Strawberries

Blend together the freshly squeezed juice of 2 oranges with a medium mango and 5/6 strawberries, to obtain over a pint of simple refreshing smoothie.

Mark: 8/10

Oranges, Nectarines, banana, kiwi and mango

Blend together the juice of 2 freshly squeezed oranges with 2 peeled and cut nectarines, one small banana, 2 kiwis and a medium mango to obtain 2 pints of a nice but disappointing smoothie, as the nectarines and mango taste is completely absent while the banana and kiwis' flavour is predominant.

mark: 5/10

Pink grapefruit, nectarines, strawberries and mango

Blend together the juice of 2 freshly squeezed pink grapefruits, with 3 nectarines, 6 or 7 strawberries, and a medium mango to get 2 pints of a nice but slightly disappointed smoothie.

As the taste of the nectarines was completely absent, and the grapefruits slightly too present.

Hence a mark of 5/10.

Pink Grapefruit, Nectarines, pears, and banana

Today, I blended together the juice of 2 freshly squeezed pink grapefruits with 2 pears, 2 nectarines and a banana. It gave me a pint of a fine light smoothie, in which you could identify all fruits. Very refreshing with a hint of early summer :-)

Mark 10/10