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So this, go ahead and grab it, this is lacinato kale
also called dinosaur skin kale, it has a loveley blueish
green tint, this is curly kale, so the leaves here are very
curly, ruffly, again, there's a big coarse stem down the middle
I put my fingers on the stem, stem away from you
and pull the stem out, great. Then we put those right
there, then you can put your stems here. Now we're
going to try with the lacinato. This one's a little trickier
I start tearing the leaf away, then just pull it.
Put the leaf in there. Can you make anything with these?
We throw nothing away
My Iowa farmer daddy would be so proud of me
we're going to use everything. We're going to make a
smoothie with this stuff. For these, what you simply
want to do is chop these into small pieces. About that size
and dump them into the bowl here. Depending on
the speed and power you have in a blender, you can
chop these alot or chop them until they're small. I
have a vitamix at home
which will do the whole thing very very nicely.
Since we're using a blender, we'll chop them up small
There's a general principle that works very well.
That would be one serving of vegetables and two servings
of fruit, water, and ice. You'll have a smoothie that'll be
quite lovely. The key thing to keep in mind
If I put in purple grape juice into my green kale, what
color would I get? Brown? Yeah. In general, although
we like to have chocolate things, brown smoothies made out of vegetables are much less appealing
I'm going to use orange, the banana, and the kale
that should end up with what color smoothie?
Orange? Actually it'll be probably green. We'll see
We're going to put in the banana, and we're going to
put in two cups of orange juice. So the kale and all
cruciferous vegetables, do you know the cruciferous vegetables?
Kale, collared, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower. Spinach? No. I have a few more here. This is a turnip
And these are radishes which are also in the cabbage family. Rutabegas, mustard greens, turnip greens, watercress
would all be part of the cabbage family. They're all fabulously
right with sulfer
minerals. The green ones also have chlorophyl, and vitamins b, c, and a. So now we're going to add
the ice. Everything in the cabbage family will compete
very slightly with iodine absorption in the thyroid.
To overcome that, I'd like to add a little bit of kelp. I
encourage our study participants to have a quarter
teaspoon of kelp powder every day. It sees to it that you
have plenty of iodine. It also greatly helps your body's
ability to remove toxins. We live in a toxic environment
with pesticides, chemical solvents, heavy metals through
industrial practices, mining, farming, etc. So 1/4 tsp
of kelp. You can get kelp at the whole food store, too?
You can get it online at vitacost, this is star west organic, so
it's about five dollars for a pound. You can also get it
at New Pioneer in the bulk spices section
So health-food stories are a great place for it.
Let's see what that looks like. So I'd say it's sorta green
but not overpoweringly so. So how many servings would this be?
Of fruits and vegetables, if you drank that whole thing?
Including the orange juice? We have two cups of orange
juice, one banana, and the cup of kale stems.
Four? Since I'm telling people they need nine cups every
day, you could drink it all this way, but you'd have a
few more vegetables than you would have fruit.
It seems pretty easy, you don't have to do a lot of
measuring, you just use what you have.
Recipes are only suggestions, so it's a great way to start
but you never feel intimidated that you have to have
necessarily all the ingredients. Cheers, to your health.
That's delicious. Pretty yummy. Very easy way to take some Kale.
In general, one serving of vegetables, two servings of fruit,
and that will mellow things out.
For today I put in three servings of fruit and two vegetable. So it's very mellow, very easy.