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Jul 10 2008

Strawberry smoothie

strawberry ice creamThe Skinny Cook is back on track making more healthy smoothies than ever and sharing the best smoothie recipes at our dedicated Smoothie Recipe website.

All you need for making fresh fruit smoothies is:

  • fresh fruit
  • a smoothie maker (any three in one smoothie machine blender food processor would do the job if you only make a few smoothies a year and when you make sure not using big ice cubes)
  • ingredients: something sweet, sour, tasty fruity, icy (ice or frozen fruit in ice-cubes)

Read our latest fresh fruit smoothie recipes at Smoothie Recipe : today we added a Strawberry smoothie.

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Jul 05 2008

Peach Smoothie Recipe

What to do with peaches from the shop…

peach smoothieThis fruit smoothie recipe uses fresh peaches, and is a welcome idea to use the peaches from an abundant peach harvest if you have peach tress yourself in the garden. Yet it’s even a better idea when you just bought peaches from the shop: peaches that are a little bit sour…

When peaches are very sweet, then better eat them like they are! Or if you really want to make a smoothie with very sweet peaches: add some sourness with natural ingredients available like yogurt or sour oranges to keep your smoothie healthy.

If you do buy peaches from the shop: some peaches have little taste so don’t mix them with other fruit when making a peach smoothie to keep the peach taste in your smoothie!

Go to Fruit smoothie recipes to  read this Peach Smoothie recipe

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Nov 01 2007

Orange Juice

I love to squeeze 3 oranges a day, yet I do keep having a flu once in a while, so it’s not a bullit proved secret recipe against flu…

How to buy orange and lemon?

valencia oranges

When buying citrus fruit: you go to your local fruit seller and ask if the oranges are sweet. Your orange seller will say "YES OF COURSE"… You come home, squeeze the oranges and suddenly, they are more sour than lemons… What to do? Sour oranges are ideal to add to strawberry smoothies! read more fruit smoothie recipes at : Fruit Smoothie recipes

Valencia Oranges

You can have a first indication whether or not your oranges will be sweet, when you buy Valencia Oranges: Valencia Oranges have not a lot seeds and is a variety of sweet oranges.

What are the numbers on the Valencia Oranges?

In the above pictures we see numbers on the Valencia oranges: on the left the orange got number 3108 and on the right the orange got number 4014. These are the so called PLU numbers: Price Look-Up Codes

Price Look-Up codes or Product Lookup Number, commonly called PLU codes or PLU numbers, are identification numbers. The code is a four-digit number identifying the type of produce, sometimes including the variety.

  • Organic produce is denoted by a five-digit number whose first digit is 9;
  • an 8 prefix indicates genetically modified food.

In the picture of oranges above:

  • 3108 - ORANGE: Valencia, medium
  • 4014 - ORANGE: Valencia, small

So the numbers tell us that we bought Valencia Oranges (a sweet Orange, but if picked too early, it can still be sour…), and the 3108 orange should be bigger than the 4014 orange. On the picture you see the same size or oranges, yet the 3018 had a thinner skin, so more juice than the 4014 orange.

PLU codes Oranges

3027 - ORANGE: Shamouti
3028 - ORANGE: Delta Seedless, small
3036 - ORANGE: Midknight, small
3107 - ORANGE: Navel Oranges, medium
3108 - ORANGE: Valencia, medium
3109 - ORANGE: Seville / Marmalade type
3110 - ORANGE: Navel Oranges, Cara / Red
3153 - ORANGE: Delta, seedless, medium
3154 - ORANGE: Delta, seedless, large
3155 - ORANGE: Midknight, medium
3156 - ORANGE: Midknight, large
3309 - ORANGE: Lima
3310 - ORANGE: Pera
3370 - ORANGE: Maltaise
3371 - ORANGE: Salustiana
3372 - ORANGE: Navelate and other late Navel Oranges varieties
3373 - ORANGE: Navelina including Newhall
3374 - ORANGE: Without postharvest treatment
4012 - ORANGE: Navel Oranges, large
4013 - ORANGE: Navel Oranges, small
4014 - ORANGE: Valencia, small
4381 - ORANGE: Blood
4382 - ORANGE: Juice
4383 - ORANGE: Tangelo Minneola
4384 - ORANGE: Navel Oranges, small1
4385 - ORANGE: Navel Oranges, large1
4386 - ORANGE: Temple, small
4387 - ORANGE: Temple, large
4388 - ORANGE: Valencia, large

Read more about Fresh Fruit Smooties at  : Fruit Smoothie recipes

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