What a lovely way to wake up!

This beautifully sunny glass is full of Vitamin C, whole-food fiber, and the alkalizing, energizing, soothing power of fresh aloe vera gel! Add a bit of rose water (or orange blossom water… your pick), and you’ve got a light, refreshing day-starter with a wee bit of exotic appeal.

And for those of you watching your sugar intake, this smoothie is not as sweet as straight orange juice, so you can drink more without getting a sugar rush.

I’m in love with the color of this one. The smoothie has that lovely froth typical to all fresh-aloe smoothies, but in the cheeriest of sunshine yellows. How can this not make you smile…

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One glass of this and I felt warm and ready for… well, for somethin’! A night of dancing, I’d say, if it weren’t already 11pm on a Thursday night.

This is a delicious, non-fat, low-cal, energizing drink you can make a few different ways. Made with fresh lime juice and raw cane sugar as I have shown here, it has a kind of mellow “gingerbreadiness” that is just wonderfully wintery and comforting. Make it instead with fresh lemon juice and raw honey, however, and you’ll have a more completely different flavor. Both perky and mellow, but less “dark” in taste.

I also added quite a bit of ice to mine, to give a slushed effect. But you can add just enough to get a chill and enjoy it as a smoothie.

However you do it, this is so light and refreshing… a very nice light beverage to serve to guests. A nice way to introduce your friends (or your self!) to the pleasure of fresh aloe vera gel! Which is definitely one of nature’s most effective natural energy foods. Great for athletes…both for energy as well as to aid in recovery.

Take this one to the gym or dance studio, for sure!

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This unique Live Green Smoothie is a meal, and though you could probably live on the thing, could also easily categorize as either a dessert or a high-test energy drink.

Wow.

Vanilla and macadamia nuts together are just a classic combo. And here, they combine to make a rich, creamy, delicious, mild smoothie, just loaded with minerals from the kale and the macadamia nuts, and rich with polysaccharides from the fresh aloe vera gel, it’s a pure delight. And such a lovely shade of delicate green! Green smoothies never had it so good.

And if you don’t have kale handy, throw in some fresh spinach or parsley instead. If you don’t have medjool dates, use some raw honey, cane sugar, or agave nectar if you’d like. Not into bananas? Use a heaping tablespoon of coconut oil and a good chunk of raw cacao butter instead, and jack up the sweetener a tad bit.

Extremely versatile recipe. And one you should make sure you try to keep the ingredients around as staples, so you can whip it up whenever you really need some deep, natural nourishment.

And a teaspoon of raw maca powder in this recipe would work very well, too!

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If you haven’t yet tried any of the smoothies I’ve been whipping up lately with fresh aloe vera gel, maybe this will be the one to send you over the edge and buy a handful of aloe vera leaves at your local grocery store. I’d like to say that this is my favorite one, but the thing is, every smoothie I’ve ever made with fresh aloe has it’s special appeal.

This one… a rich dark-chocolatey blast of well-being from both the intense choco-magnesium and aloe-polysaccharide. Both frothy and refreshing… and it’s made without any nut milk, and without the addition of hemp seeds. Quite spectacular, really.

What a delightful discovery. This one will become a regular in my kitchen, absolutely.

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Nu-MEE! Sweet, creamy, slightly exotic and floral-tasting… filled with the alkalizing, energizing power of fresh aloe vera gel, with a vaguely tropical undertone from mango and guava. A wonderful Live Green Smoothie that takes just minutes to whip up, and all the ingredients are so pedestrian I bought them in my own little central-New Jersey neighborhood.

Where to get elderflower water? I have no idea — online, I suppose. Normally I come across recipes for making the stuff at home. But at the liquor store is a liqueur called “St. Germain” which you can pick up to add a bit of exotic flavoring to your beverages (it’s generally sold for adding a few drops to champagne). I love it because it tastes like fresh lychee fruit to me, which I adore. If I come across elderflower water in any store, though, I will be sure to pick it up because these lovely flower waters are spectacular in Live Green Smoothie recipes!

In this case, you can easily substitute Orange Blossom Water instead (and to keep it utterly non-alcoholic for you teetotalers… although this LGS isn’t remotely a cocktail).

This recipe would also be wonderful with ripe persimmon instead of the guava, so do keep that in mind!

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The keyword for a ripe persimmon is definitely “luscious”. Funny thing how here in the west persimmon’s have the reputation for being mouth-puckeringly tart, but the truth (known so well in China and Japan) is that a ripe persimmon is beautifully, delicately, mildly custard-like. And luscious.

My grocery stores have lots of ripe persimmons right now, so hopefully you can find some lusciously ripe ones in your neck of the woods as well.

A good thing, because the healthifying benefits of persimmon are not to be snuffed at.

The Health Benefits of Persimmon

Persimmons are high in soluble fiber (the cholesterol-lowering “oatmeal” kind rather than the “celery” kind…). They’re also crazy-rich in phytonutrients — flavonoids, polyphenols, polysaccharides… the good stuff that makes your body “sing” and feel all juicy and revitalized, even if you don’t exactly understand the down & dirty of how that’s happening.

They’re also rich in beta carotene, super-high in vitamin A and a respectable source of vitamin C and antioxidants. Add that to the wildly energizing & healthifying benefits of the fresh aloe vera gel in this smoothie, and it’s really just a wonderful one to add to your rejuvenating arsenal!

And they’re just to dang luscious.

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Oh, aloe, aloe, where have you been all my life. Crikey, I may have to rename this site the Aloe Smoothie Diet if I keep this up. I’m so in love with how fresh aloe feels energetically when I drink it, and it makes the most wonderfully delicate smoothies!

If you’re into juice feasting, you could probably add fresh aloe vera gel to your juices and live off that stuff for a few years.

I picked up several aloe leaves at the store with some interesting smoothie ingredients for the next couple days, so if you don’t have any lying about (tch… right) you might want to see if you can procure some. At my Shop Rite around the corner they are only 99 cents!

This smoothie, made with fresh raspberries (I don’t use frozen) and raw honey is light and delicate. Raspberries are not considered a “sweet” fruit, so if you don’t care to use honey, agave or another sweetener, you could certainly add a banana, some fresh orange juice or even grapes for sweetness.

But I love the delicacy without the additional fruit. And rose water added to this recipe is just a glass of deliciousness waiting to happen. For raw cocktailers, add vodka or tequila. But me… I believe I may be giving up my beloved dark tequila for fresh aloe vera gel smoothies, until further notice.

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Last Day for $20 Savings on my LGS Daily Recipe magazine…

I am thoroughly persuaded of the healing and healthifying benefits of drinking fresh aloe vera gel, and for this reason the plant is on my Top 5 list for learning how to cultivate at home. Every time I discover another great way to enjoy it in a raw smoothie, I’m blown away by how refreshed and energized I am when I drink it. And I don’t think it’s nearly enough… not when the benefits of aloe are as significant as they are. I always feel so super-charged by it and clear. It’s rich in polysaccharides, it’s alkalizing, makes my joints and muscles feel “juicier”… a good thing.

This raw smoothie is such a pretty thing — golden yellow, a warm honey hue, with the frothy top that fresh aloe always gives. Looks and tastes like a delicious cocktail… without the alcohol! I’d like to have a few blenderfuls of this stuff every day. <<Mental note to self: buy a big bouquet of aloe leaves on next grocery trip.>> If you can’t find them at your local store, just ask the produce manager to get some in. The leaves run anywhere from $.99 to $2.29 in my area.

Here’s a nice little video of David Wolfe free-associating about polysaccharides, aloe… and a few other things. The guy is such a storehouse of so much info.

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I love vanilla, and I’m also always on the lookout for new ways to enjoy fresh aloe very gel because of it’s “miracle superfood” reputation… I just never thought the two would go so nicely together! Turns out, they make quite a lovely pair.

This smoothie is light and for the vanilla purist. It’s refreshing, you can make it sweet or less-so, you can make it with banana instead of raw cane sugar or raw honey, if you prefer. But however you choose to sweeten it, you’ll get a long-lasting blast of energy from the polysaccharide-rich aloe vera gel, not to mention the soothing, alkalizing, anti-inflammatory properties that so many rave about.

And when I’m popping aloe into a smoothie, I also make sure I put some of the fresh gel on my face and neck for a quick little facial.

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If only kids drank this instead of milk. Or teenagers instead of Red Bull! 

The “engine” of this drink are the polysaccharides in the fresh Aloe Vera Gel — they give a great long-lasting fuel, with the sweetness in the bananas giving a quick energy lift. The flavor is light, the texture is creamy without being cloying, and it makes for a pretty drink… as all smoothies are, I find, when I’ve added fresh aloe.

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A Mild-Tasting Drink For Long-Lasting Days

This is a great drink to make when you have a long day ahead of you with nary a prospect for slowing down, or if you’ve got an athletic event planned (hellooo ballroom dancers!). You can pour it out over ice in a wide-mouth water bottle and take with you for a quick energy lift when you need it!

Those polysaccharides are great for keeping one’s joints, connective tissues and inner organs “juicified” and healthy, so again… great for athletes. And for athlete wannabees.

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A Few Words on Fresh Aloe Vera Gel

Aloe vera is a superfood given to us by the Egyptians and worth finding ways to add into your diet at every possible occasion, which is why I regularly post smoothie recipes with aloe as a base. I find I can pick up a large aloe leaf at my local grocery store for just 99 cents, so I usually keep a few on hand at any given time.

Aloe also has a neutral taste that pairs well with raw smoothies, although if you juice the whole leaf, it’s famous for being bitter. But in my smoothies, I cut open the leaf and just scoop (or rather, slice) out the goopy gel in long sheets, making sure to keep the green out of the blender.

There’s something enjoyable about getting that gel out. Takes me back to childhood in a very nice way. 

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