Epic Raw Vegan Superfood Smoothie
The EPIC Smoothie! Warning: This smoothie may cause increased energy, enhanced libido, glowing skin & other benefits. Only drink if you want to take your love of super foods to a whole new level!
Note: Cacao is a stimulant and can be damaging to the liver and brain when used in excess so it shouldn’t really be considered a health food. I’ve experienced breakouts and rashes on my back and this is a common side effect among people who are sensitive to it.
There are people who experience energy bursts from Cacao, however that’s because it is a stimulant/drug which comes with consequences on the brain and organs over time. Use cacao very sparingly or substitute for Carob which is a source of fiber and B Vitamins, and also promotes health for the digestive system.
Ingredients:
2 tbsp Organic Lives Supermix base (cacao, maca, lucuma, mesquite, tocotrienols) or sub cacao for Carob which is what we do and I highly recommend it. If you purchase the blend from Organic Lives it’s already pre-mixed with cacao*
2 tsp xtra Premium Red Maca
2 tsp xtra Tocotrienols
1 tsp Shilajit
2 tbsp Hemp Protein
2 tbsp Hemp Seeds
1 tbsp Manuka active 16+ honey
1 tsp Bee pollen propolis jelly mix
2-3 Frozen, ripened bananas
2 cups Coconut Milk
Instructions: Put milk and powders in the Vitamix on speed 1. Turn it off and add frozen bananas, honey and hemp seeds and turn on speed 6-7 for 30 seconds or until the mixture is creamy and liquid.
If you’re wondering where to get all of these ingredients, you can get most of the super foods powders from RawGuru.com
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Nice!! Sounds like the smoothie I have everyday
Never heard of Tocotrienols before.. Just did a little research about them and it’s quite interesting. Might be the newest addition to my superfood diet
Hey Phil
I’ve recently removed cacao from my diet as a health food after experiencing very negative side effects (rashes and break outs). Because of it’s high toxicity rate, it shouldn’t (imo) be considered a health food, but a recreational food or used for special occasions. I’ll be putting a post out about this soon and revising some of our recipes to give caution. Cacao is hard in the liver and can be damaging to the body. Instead, if you want a chocolate flavour, I recommend Carob powder. It’s high in fiber and other vitamins and nutrients.
In addition, be mindful that when you use super foods and super herbs, you can over do it. I’ll be putting more specific dosage amounts out on the post coming up about how to use super foods and super herbs so you can know when you are getting a sufficient amount and when you are over dosing. Plants are medicine so we have to be careful
On a lighter note, I absolutely LOVE the taste of the EPIC smoothie and Tocotrienols are seriously favs of mine! They’re light and fluffy in texture and make smoothies so delicious, I also find my skin feels better when I add them to my smoothies. I’ll be going to pick up a new bag from Organic Lives this week!
Love S
I’m glad to hear someone else warning about cacao.
My experience with cacao: I know that people are really getting into this cacao and God bless those who can handle it, but when I was studying as a healer, they said that chocolate was the worst thing you could eat, causing inflammation in the gut, breast cysts, fibroids, using up your calcium to digest, and containing chemicals that are addictive.
When I became crippled 12 years ago, it was after eating a lot of chocolate cake (a birthday cake made with Pamela’s brownie mix, so no gluten, milk, etc.) when my 50th birthday party was snowed out. I could not walk down a step without excruciating pain. It took two years to be able to walk comfortably. When raw cacao came out I hoped it wouldn’t hurt me, and ate a little each day for a while with agave, but I began getting painful breast lumps and fibroid swelling and pain.
Then a while ago, I began drinking Young Living’s yummy Slique Tea that contains cacao, assuming it was just tiny amounts. I loved the smell of frankincense of the tea. I drank it for a few weeks, as I became more and more rheumatoid. (The tannins in the black tea may have contributed to it as well, but I’ve never drunk enough tea to notice a reaction.) Eventually I could not get out of a chair without pain or walk on either knee and the rest of my joints were weak; even when lying in bed I hurt all over. I finally traced it to the tea. After a few weeks off the tea, I finally got back to where I was before.
I just thought you might want to know this in case it helps you to make this connection. I have clients who have found that they too get stiff and painful when they eat any form of chocolate.
I have been seeing carob products disappearing from health food stores, while raw chocolate has proliferated. I think it is just drug addiction (as in sugar, coffee, chocolate) that drives this and it is unfortunate.