Your Acai Low Fat Smoothie Recipes

By adding acai to your low fat smoothie recipes, you can increase the nutrition and the likelihood that you’ll lose weight!

The acai berry is considered to be one of the most nutritious fruits in the world. It is simply exploding with antioxidants, fiber, protein, essential fatty acids, and other body-beneficial nutrients that all are believed to help maintain healthy diets and lose weight.

So, by adding acai to your already low fat smoothie recipe, you are only increasing your chances of weight loss success.

Here are a few other tips to keep your smoothie recipes truly low-fat:

• If the recipe calls for milk, use low-fat or skim milk; or don’t use any at all, and replace it with acai juice (such as MonaVie Acai Berry Juice)
• If the recipe calls for yogurt, be sure to use low fat yogurt
• If you’re lactose intolerant, you can skip the yogurt and the milk altogether, and just use acai juice and additional fruit and ice
• Be sure to use fresh fruit and not frozen or canned fruit. Packaged fruit often contains high amounts of sugar and/or high fructose corn syrup. If the recipes calls for frozen fruit, either freeze fresh fruit yourself, or simply use more ice instead.

So how do you add acai to your low fat smoothie recipe? First of all, you won’t find acai berries at your local grocery store. Acai only grows in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, and no where else. And since it spoils within 24 hours of being picked, the rest of the world is unable to get fresh acai. We have to get our acai in other forms, such as acai berry supplements, acai powder, and acai juice.

For the purpose of adding acai to your diet smoothies, it’s best to buy acai berry as powder or juice. Be sure to look for products that use only the highest quality organic acai; and only buy from companies that use freeze dried acai in their acai products.

Freeze drying is a process that allows the acai to be dried to be transported overseas; and is the only process that preserves all the nutrients and antioxidant power of the berry. All of the other processes (mainly spray and drum drying) cook out all of the nutrients, which leaves the berry useless and a waste of your money.

We recommend either Sambazon acai powder if you want powder form; or MonaVie acai juice blends if you prefer juice.

Then, simply use any of your favorite low fat smoothie recipes and just add acai! If you’re using powder, you just need to add the powder. If you’re using juice, you might need to add some additional fruit or ice to balance out the added liquid; or replace the milk or fruit juice in the recipe with acai juice.

The best part is, you can get as creative with your low fat smoothie recipes as you want. Have fun, get creative, get healthy, and get thin!

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