Make Your Own Fruit Smoothies For Diabetics

Making your own fruit smoothies for diabetics is fun and easy, not to mention a wonderful treat. A fruit smoothie is like a meal in itself. It is healthy and nutritious offering you all the benefits of goodness in one glass. Fruit smoothies for diabetics are a must to add to your diabetes diet plan.

Fruit smoothies can be high in calories, but you just need to adjust the recipe so that you have a low fat version to suit you. Smoothies are packed full of vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and fibre that all benefit your body giving it the nutrients it requires.

Making you own fruit smoothies for diabetics is a wonderful way of being able to replace one meal each day with one of these nutrient packed fruit smoothies, which will allow your body to get the energy it needs while making you feel satisfied.

If you are trying to lose weight, you could implement a couple of days per month with just drinking smoothies for those two days. It is important to remember that fruit smoothies for diabetics are easily digested and help promote internal cleansing, which actually helps to eliminate waste in your intestines and can also help to boost your metabolism.

Following are a few recipes on how to make your own fruit smoothies for diabetics:

Banana Smoothie

Preparation time: 5 minutes

Cooking time: Nil

Serves: 2

Ingredients:

2 ripe bananas (make sure you choose bananas that are not too ripe as this increase the GI

60g of low fat vanilla or fruit yoghurt of your choice

500ml of low fat milk

2 tbsp of oat bran or wheat germ

Ground nutmeg to taste

Method:

Put the bananas into a food processor or blender. Add the yoghurt, milk, bran or wheat germ, and nutmeg. Process or blend until smooth then pour into chilled glasses and serve.

Mixed Berry Smoothie

Preparation time: 5 minutes

Cooking time: Nil

Serves: 2

Ingredients:

150g of mixed low GI fruits of your choice (strawberries, blackberries, peach, blueberries)

60g low fat vanilla yoghurt

1 tbsp malted milk powder

2 tsp of oat bran or wheat germ

1 egg (this is optional)

Method:

Place the mixed berries in a food processor or blender. Add the yoghurt, milk, bran or wheat germ and egg. Process or blend until combined then pour into chilled glasses and serve.

Mocha Smoothie

Preparation time: 5 minutes

Cooking time: Nil

Serves: 4

Ingredients:

4 cups of low fat milk

1 cup of low fat chocolate mousse

1 cup of low fat chocolate ice cream

1 tbsp instant coffee granules

½ tsp vanilla essence

Method:

Process or blend all the ingredients until smooth. Pour into chilled glasses and serve.

All of these fruit smoothies for diabetics are low GI, which should help with your diabetes diet plan and your overall management of diabetes.

Sue Kennedy