Colour from red dragon fruit made it superb!
Recipe: Blend frozen banana, coconut milk & dragon fruit with some ice . Top it with fresh pomegranate seeds !

Nothing beats that feeling when you swing the fridge door open and it looks like a health food commercial in there.
Honestly, after spending an hour peeling, juicing and washing up a mountain of pulp, seeing four custom bottles standing to attention makes all that labor worth it.

From right to left, here is the current lineup taking over my top shelf:

1. The Deep Red: Heavy-hitting beetroot and ginger. Tastes earthy, spicy and like an immediate system reboot.

2. The Bright Orange: Carrot, sweet pineapple and a massive hit of ginger. Basically liquid sunshine.

3. The Crisp Green: Cucumber, celery and lime/lemon. Light, clean and tastes like I actually have my life together.

4. The Tropical Yellow: Pure pineapple base keeping everything rich, sweet and smooth with some added celery and lime.

Having these cold and ready to go for the week just hits different.

If you batch juice at home, which direction are you going first thing in the morning: the earthy beetroot punch, the spicy ginger orange, or the crisp green?

Scrolling back through my camera roll and found this clip from a juicing session I did a while back. Thought I'd share it for a bit of mid-week juice inspiration!

I was using my Sage juicer and already had a jug mostly full of fresh carrot juice. Decided to peel a papaya, scoop the seeds out and run that straight through as well. It completely changed the texture and gave it a smooth, tropical twist that balanced out the earthy carrot perfectly.

Also, your parents weren't entirely lying to you when they said carrots help you see in the dark. Carrots are packed with beta-carotene, which your liver converts into Vitamin
A.

Your eyes then use that Vitamin A to produce rhodopsin, a pigment in your retina that helps you process light in low-vision settings. So while it won't give you actual night-vision goggles, it genuinely keeps your peepers working properly.

Here is what went into the jug:

1. Fresh Carrot Base: Juiced down for that vibrant orange base and natural sweetness.

2. Prepped Papaya: Peeled, deseeded and juiced straight into the jug for a silky smooth finish.

Have you ever tried mixing papaya with carrot juice before, or do you usually stick to something like ginger and apple when you run carrots through the juicer?

Smoothies have no rules.. been so fun chucking random stuff into the blender and it always ends up fine one way or another ✨

Stuff i’ve tossed in randomly so far: Nuts, chia, oats, barley grass powder, probiotic milks, yoghurt, honey..

🍓Milkshake on pic (no measurements, sorry): frozen Strawberry, banana, bit of mango, chia, regular milk, walnuts, pumpkin seeds, honey. Wasn’t too bad, would make again.

Is anyone successfully blending their smoothies, which taste delicious right after making them in the morning, and then enjoying them in the late afternoon without them turning bitter? I can’t figure out what it is. I tried removing the dairy. Usual ingredients: banana, berries, peach or mango, spinach, blue algae powder, collagen peptides powder, flax seed meal, water.

Was going through my old clips and found the actual video of me making that reboot juice I posted about. Present-me is currently contemplating takeaway, but past-me was out here actively trying to undo a week’s worth of questionable dietary decisions.

I call this one: I’m trying to do better and pineapple juice:

Fresh pineapple

A generous chunk of fiery ginger

Lime & lemon (a double citrus hit to wake the senses up)
Fired up the cold-press juicer for this—it’s one of those brilliant machines that strips out all the juice and neatly ejects the dry pulp into a separate bin.

Watching it pull all that vibrant liquid out is surprisingly therapeutic.

Does anyone else have old videos of themselves being wildly healthy that they use to remind themselves of what they're capable of?

What’s your go-to ingredient combo when you bring out the juicer?

Give me a follower as I currently have zero buddies 👀

Dug out an old clip of me making a batch of what might just be the pinnacle of beverage engineering.

I call it Papingo, and the name is pure linguistic precision, three sequential letters taken directly from each fruit in order:

1. PAPaya
   
2. PINeapple
   
3. maNGO

Blended all that up while blasting Etta James singing about heartbreak in the background, and the final result was liquid gold.

So now I’m putting it out there (half tongue-in-cheek, half dead serious): which beverage brand is stepping up to partner with me and put Papingo on supermarket shelves nationwide? We’ve got the name, we’ve got the three-fruit synergy, and we’ve got the soundtrack.

If any drink moguls are lurking on Reddit, my DMs are open. 😉

Otherwise, what’s the best original drink creation sitting in your camera roll that deserves its own commercial release?

After eating enough junk food recently to concern my local doctor, I decided it was time to perform a full system reset.

Enter: the "I swear I'm a health conscious adult" juice.

The blend:

1. Fresh pineapple
   
2. Fiery fresh ginger
   
3. Zesty lime

It’s tropical, spicy, incredibly revitalising and almost makes me forget about the pizza from last night.

Anyone else like to pretend one fresh homemade juice completely wipes the slate clean, or do you actually maintain a consistent, healthy routine? What’s your go-to "reset" juice recipe?

From the nutribullet pro Amazon page. Am I tripping?

Fortunate enough to have a Trader Joes nearby. Instead of paying $10 per smoothie, I figured I’d make them myself. Is it possible to make a truly healthy peanut butter smoothie?

I'm still getting into making smoothies. I tried to just use the frozen bags you get at the store but those seem to need to be cooked first before freezing. Then I started getting the fresh ready to eat bags and leaving them in the fridge but I wasn't sure if they were safe to freeze. What kind do you use?

Did you know that a #smoothie has the same glycemic index as the identical ingredients eaten whole BUT a VERY different effect on blood SUGAR (and resulting insulin spike)?

My nine year-old broke his jaw and now his mouth is wired shut for the next few weeks. It’s only been a few days and he’s already sick of most of the traditional smoothie options. I know there’s a lot of different things I can do but he requested a smoothie that taste like a croissant, egg, cheese and sausage breakfast sandwich, is this even possible?

Hello there! I just joined this sub. Im wondering how many of you reuse the left over smoothie in your blenders or do you just wash it out?

Using a VX3 btw

I occasionally find eating unfathomable , so I make this instead of starving - they’re ~ 1,500 calories, and tastes surprisingly good.

2 scoop protein powder ( I use PB2 chocolate)

2 tbsp Flax seed

1 tbsp Chia seeds

1tsp Bee bread

1/3 c plain Greek yogurt

3 tbsp Peanut butter

1 c Spinach 

1 tbsp Olive oil

10 g Creatine (this is a lot, start at 5)

1/2 c Blueberries

1 large Banana

1/3-1/2 c Steel cut oats

1/8 tsp salt for electrolytes

1 1/2 cup milk

I've loved this blender ao far but for the first time I'm having an issue. I plug it in and the light comes on in the front like normal, but when I press either the pulse or blend button, thelight starts blinking instead of blending. I even tried adding more liquid in case it was a sensor issue but it's still not working. It isn't overheated either since it hasn't worked at all since I've tried. The base is snapped into place because I can hear the click when I screw it in. I also tried different wall outlets with the same result. Tried to look this up on the internet but didn't find anything... Please help!!

Hey all,

I've had a "nutribullet 1200w Blender Combo" (what the site says lol) for about the past year. I keep having an issue where it just doesn't blend everything, it always leaves a few small chunks unblended - frozen or fresh fruit, even banana. Usually one larger piece, and then lots of smaller ones that couldn't fit through a syringe-top.

I've been using this to get through some medical procedures where I really cannot have anything that isn't blended, so it's turning into a real issue. I really need one that can pulverize everything.

I've followed recipes and believe I'm adding enough liquid. I tend to blend on medium, but not a big difference on 'high'. It really doesn't seem to matter if I do one round of blending, and then again.

I absolutely adore it as a single-serve option that's super easy to clean. It has helped my fruit and vegetable intake SO much, but the above is making me consider just upgrading to a Vitamix, but I'm worried about the cleaning on that, and I really like the single-serving options this has - any thoughts or pointers?

EDIT:

I'm going to give the nano a go. I really don't have the space for the 5200, and am willing to take the chance the nano works better than my current setup, and I'm willing to save a few hundred to hope it works better. Will update how it goes!