VitaMix AntiAging Let's Not Get High Blood Pressure Green Smoothie

Today I am making my Let’s Not Get High Blood Pressure Green Smoothie. And here’s why. Not too long ago I received an email from a blog I subscribe to, Victoria Boutenko’s green smoothie blog, and she put out What To Add To Green Smoothie’s To Help With High Blood Pressure. So I thought, well, okay, I’m gonna file that away for awhile and I’ll use it at some point.

Lo and behold, not too long afterwards, I received an email from Michaele who asked, ”Do you have any smoothies or elixirs for hypertension?” which is high blood pressure. Yes, I do now, thanks to Victoria. So, I will have the link to Victoria’s article on my blog, so please go there and read it if you are concerned with high blood pressure and hypertension.

In the meantime, let’s make a delicious smoothie that will help to combat that. Out of the fruits and vegetables that Victoria listed, I chose to use tomato, and I got the plum tomatoes and these are organic, and in the interest of the budgets we were talking about yesterday, those three tomatoes only cost me $1.79. They were on sale at Whole Foods for $2.49 a pound. so, go for the organic if you can, it’s not always expensive and go for what’s on sale. You can up your game by eating better food. The food is only as nutritious as the soil it’s grown in.

Then I’m adding one half of a long English cucumber which I purchased from Costco, certified pesticide free,so you never know where you’re gonna find the good stuff. And one green onion which Victoria says in her article is rich in chromium, Vitamin C, fiber, manganese, Vitamin B6, on and on and it has healing properties, lowering blood sugar, decreasing the risk of high cholesterol and high blood pressure.

So, I’m only adding one, because as you begin to use raw foods, you’ll understand that, they taste, in the finished product, the same way they taste whole, because you’re not cooking the flavor out so you don’t need to add more flavor with salts and various other things.

So, I’m just gonna add one. And I’m not adding any water to this, I want it to be nice and potent and have that tomato-y juice flavor to it. Ok. Let’s blend up our anti high blood pressure green smoothie. Here we go.

This is so mild and delicious and refreshing. It needs no salt, no spices whatsoever. It is fabulous on its own. One thing I know from experience when using tomatoes in smoothies, if you let them sit in the refrigerator, after a couple hours when they’re chilled, they’re almost like a pudding and you can eat them with a spoon. Either way, it’s delicious. I would like to thank Michaele for writing in with such an important question and I would like to thank Victoria for sending me such valuable information.

We can all benefit from these fine ladies.