Smoothies are a nutritional gold mine!

Good morning! Dawn from Florida Coastal Cooking shared a cool website with me...Spark Recipes. It is free and calculates the build up of your recipes. It's not exact because some of the things I used were not listed (it looks like you can add information about your favorite products too!) but this is a general idea.

I made a smoothie this morning and while I know they are good for me, I was shocked at HOW good they are for me!

This morning my smoothie included the following. (NL means the product was not listed on Spark Recipe so I had to improvise...but I think it's pretty close).

1 cup fresh spinach
3/4 cup frozen blueberries
1 frozen banana
1 TBSP flax meal
1 TBSP Peanut Flour (NL)
1 tsp bee pollen (NL)
1 cup hemp milk (I added this one in, although it does not allow a spot for Omega 3 ALA, and my hemp milk has 46% the daily recommended amount)

While my smoothie was high in calories, it is extremely high in nutrition too! look at this!

Calories		479.4
Total Fat		19.4 g
	Saturated Fat	2.6 g
	Polyunsaturated Fat	10.3 g
	Monounsaturated Fat	5.7 g
Cholesterol		0.0 mg
Sodium		236.1 mg
Potassium		1,002.5 mg
Total Carbohydrate		73.8 g
	Dietary Fiber	12.6 g
	Sugars	40.8 g
Protein		12.7 g

Vitamin A	69.6 %
Vitamin B-12	20.0 %
Vitamin B-6	45.2 %
Vitamin C	38.4 %
Vitamin D	15.0 %
Vitamin E	20.1 %
Calcium	42.5 %
Copper	11.7 %
Folate	25.7 %
Iron	21.7 %
Magnesium	22.8 %
Manganese	37.5 %
Niacin	19.0 %
Pantothenic Acid	6.5 %
Phosphorus	11.4 %
Riboflavin	14.7 %
Selenium	4.1 %
Thiamin	9.2 %
Zinc	6.2 %

Not a bad way to start a Monday! Have a great week, everyone!