Homemade Smoothies

• Hello! Who doesn't like a nice, cold, freshly made fruit smoothie in the summer! Nate is missing out on watermelon, bowls of crisp grapes and crunchy apples. So I'm happy for him (and all the other fructose intolerance peeps) that bananas contain an even ratio of fructose and gluclose. Which in turn will not effect fructose intolerant people. Smoothies are so easy to make & taste awesome. When you make them at home you know, for sure, what's in it and what's not!

Fructose in Bananas

A medium banana contains approximately 5.72 g of fructose. Fructose is a common sugar found in many fruits, and it is also present in bananas. When you hear about fructose, it's often the controversial artificially produced form of fructose that's used in processed foods and soft drinks in the form of high-fructose corn syrup. However, natural fructose, like other simple sugars, supplies your body with energy. Although your body metabolizes fructose differently than other forms of natural sugar, in limited amounts, fructose is fine for most people, notes California physician and surgeon Jeremy E. Kaslow (not fine in my son) :(

I know I posted fruits that were very low in fructose but here they are again :)

Favorable foods (i.e. fructose equal to or less than glucose)

• Stone fruit: apricot, nectarine, peach, plum (caution – these fruits contain sorbitol);
• Berry fruit: blueberry, blackberry, boysenberry, cranberry, raspberry, strawberry, loganberry;
• Citrus fruit: kumquat, grapefruit, lemon, lime, mandarin, orange, tangelo;
• Other fruits: ripe banana, jackfruit, kiwi fruit, passion fruit, pineapple, rhubarb, tamarillo

Thumbs down to these!

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• Banana's don't give Nate any symptoms so it's Banana Smoothie making time!
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• 1banana
• 1 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons white sugar
• 1 pinch ground cinnamon

Directions

1. In a blender, combine banana, milk, vanilla, egg and sugar. Blend until smooth. Pour into a tall glass and top with a pinch of cinnamon.

or try: 

Chocolate Banana Smoothie

14 cup cocoa powder (hershey) 2 tbsps cane sugar  3 tbsps warm water 1 banana (sliced and of course peeled)

2 cups non-fat vanilla yogurt (frozen) read labels for HFCS 112 cups ice (cold skim milk)

Good luck with your fructose intolerance and Smoothie making :) We'll experiment this week with blueberries!