Super Acai Antioxidant Blast Smoothie Recipe with Pomegranate

Pomegranates, blueberry and acai berry are all extremely rich in antioxidants. They also go great together in a smoothie!

Acai (pronounced “ah-sigh-ee”) is a tiny berry that grows on a species of palm tree in Brazil. It is praised for it’s super high antioxidant load and possible disease-fighting phytonutrients. The flavor is sometimes described as a combination of red wine and chocolate. The berry is low in sugar too.

Acai, with it’s “red wine and chocolate” flavor mixes well with pomegranate and blueberries to provide a rich, complex flavor.

You can use bottled pomegranate juice but I prefer juicing it myself since it will not have been pasteurized and I know that it’s fresh and the most potent in antioxidants.

I chose to use frozen blueberries to make this a cold smoothie, but you can use fresh if you’d like.

As with most of our smoothie recipes, you can make this a green smoothie by adding fresh baby spinach, romaine lettuce or other leafy green of your choice. Strong, bitter greens like kale or dandelion might interfere with the flavor of this particular blend.

Super Antioxidant Blast Smoothie Recipe

• 1/4 cup fresh pomegranate juice or arils
• 1 oz (2 tablespoons) whole acai berry juice or 100 grams of frozen acai berry puree*
• 2 cups frozen wild blueberries
• 2 organic bananas
• 4 ounces filtered water (optional if needed)

Add all the ingredients to your blender, (I use a Blendtec) and blend on high for 30 seconds or until the smoothie is creamy.

NOTE: To juice the pomegranate, simply empty the seeds in a strainer and smash them with a spoon. Make sure you place a metal bowl under the strainer. Pomegranate juice stains, so be careful! If you have a high powered blender, the arils (seeds and juice sack) will blend up just find and you can add the entire arils to your smoothie.

* I used concentrated acai juice made from whole berries. You can find acai berry juice (or powder) at health food stores, usually in the supplements aisle.

Nutrition Information *

Calories: 391
Fat: 1g
Protein: 3g
Carbohydrates: 102g
Calcium: 5% RDA (Recommended Daily Allowance)
Iron: 2.6 mg
Vitamin A: 13% RDA
Vitamin C: 33% RDA

This smoothie is also a rich source of many antioxidants, vitamin B3, B5, B6, copper, magnesium, manganese, potassium and zinc.

* The nutrition information for this smoothie recipe is approximate. Since acai berry hasn’t been extensively studied and does not appear in the USDA Nutrient Database, it was not included in the nutrition information above. Acai berry powder, juice and whole, fresh acai berries will have different nutrient profiles due to differences in processing and freshness.

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