If you’re sipping on a smoothie in the morning to lose weight, don’t just throw a million healthy ingredients into the blender and hope for the best! It needs to follow this formula for weight loss. You can stray from the formula a little, but aim to keep it between 300 and 400 calories, and…
If you’re trying to keep close tabs on added sugars and calories, it’s time to rethink a daily Starbucks Peppermint Mocha. This seasonal drink should only serve as an occasional indulgence — not an everyday occurrence. Just one tall peppermint mocha (made with two-percent milk and no whipped cream) weighs in at 250 calories with…
A smoothie seems like the perfect weight-loss elixir. It’s quick and easy (especially if you follow these time-saving tricks), but since it’s easy to throw just about anything into your NutriBullet or blender, it’s hard to know just how many calories a smoothie really contains. When you’re trying to lose weight, nutritionists recommend a smoothie…
A green tea latte sounds like a healthy enough choice from Starbucks, right? Guess again. Just one tall green tea latte (made with two-percent milk) contains 260 calories and 40 grams of sugar – almost twice the daily recommendation outlined by the American Heart Association. If you love the flavor and buzz this matcha-filled beverage…
Now that cold-pressed juice shops are on every corner, it’s time to step up what’s in your cup. The newest trend in healthy living: drinking charcoal. Major juice companies like Project Juice, Juice Generation, and Lulitonix currently have charcoal drinks on their menus, touted as the newest way to detox. So does it work? Find…
If you’ve had BluePrint Juice‘s refreshing concoction of pineapple, green apple, and mint (P.A.M.) and thought to yourself how good it would be in a cocktail, you definitely have the makings of a bartender in you! BluePrint’s P.A.M. has everything you want in a great Summer cocktail – a balanced flavor profile of sweet and…
It’s not at all unusual to crave a no-banana smoothie given that every single smoothie recipe on the planet seems to contain the fruit. Whether you’re tired of the taste of bananas or just looking to cut back on carbs, these nine banana-free smoothies are sure to satisfy. All contain good-for-you nutrients like fiber, protein,…
If you follow health food trends, you might have noticed that Blue Majik is popping up in just about everything. This delightful-sounding ingredient is making its way into cold-pressed juices, protein powders, and even lattes. When the brightly hued powder is mixed into drinks, the effect is a little like a blue raspberry slushie, but…
The latest buzzworthy trend in healthy drinks has to be golden milk. Despite its surge in popularity, Haldi Doodh (translation: turmeric milk) has been used as a medicinal drink in India for centuries. Simple to make, the basic recipe of milk, turmeric, ginger, coconut oil, and pepper has much more going for it than just…
It doesn’t get easier than blending up a smoothie, but the wrong combination of ingredients can leave you with a breakfast that’s too sweet, too chalky, too thin, too (insert your smoothie problem here). In the Spring and Summer, I start craving a flavorful, refreshing, and frothy smoothie, and this vanilla matcha smoothie became my…
