Drink: Creamy banana and summer fruit smoothie

How to make a creamy banana and summer fruit smoothie

Ingredients:

  • Summer fruits from a tin (cherries, blackcurrants, blueberries, strawberries and blackberries)
  • Two bananas
  • Milk

 

How to make it:

First open the tin of summer fruits and drain it from any syrup, then pour it into your blender e.g nutribullet. Chop up two bananas (including the ends) and tip the pieces in with summer fruits. Now add some milk into the mixture, and mix all the ingredients together. Blitz the mixture until it is smooth and fairly runny and enjoy your smoothie!

 

Nutritional values:

Bananas contain 20% of the amount of vitamin B-6 we need each day. B-6 helps parts of our body like the digestive, immune, muscular, and nervous systems function. A banana also has 6% of the magnesium we need per day and also 14% of the vitamin C we need. Vitamin C helps your body parts grow and repair and helps maintain your teeth.  Magnesium is a nutrient that the body needs to stay healthy including regulating muscle and nerve function, blood sugar levels, and blood pressure and making protein, bone, and DNA.

Summer fruits supply lots of fibre, vitamins and nutrients which can strengthen your immune system, help prevent cancer and improve your overall health. A famous summer fruit are strawberries containing vitamin C that prevents colds, flus or other infections. Blueberries are also known to be a summer fruit. They are low on calories and have lots of vitamins and nutrients.

Over all, this yummy smoothie is a healthy and tasty way to start the day.