If you haven't got a blender, then it's high time you invested in one. Because without a blender, you cannot make the ultimate health breakfast – the smoothie. If you know how to make them, smoothies can offer you your entire daily requirement of five portions of fruit and vegetables in one glass!

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All you need are some fresh, preferably organic, chopped up and peeled fruit and veg and some ice and voila, within just a few whizzes of the blender you are guaranteed a smooth ride to good health.

Here are some delicious and healthy smoothie recipes:

Summer berry sunrise

• 90 g each of blackberries, blueberries and strawberries
• 90 g of vanilla-flavoured soy milk
• Ground cinnamon and wild honey to taste

Get-up-and-go smoothie:

• One banana
• One mango
• Half a medium sized pineapple
• A tablespoon of rolled oats
• 150ml milk or a small cup of plain, low-fat yoghurt

Carrot craving

• One quarter litre carrot juice
• One quarter litre orange juice
• 180 g pineapple
• 180g melon (try winter melons or papaya)

Tropical dream

• One large chopped banana
• Two peeled kiwi fruits
• Half a large mango
• Half a large papaya
• One quarter litre freshly squeezed orange juice

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