Smooth Operator

It's summertime.... And for summer reason it is particularly hot and sticky this summer, so who doesn't love to sip on a refreshing smoothie?! Smoothies are great ways to get something healthy and filling in a hurry. However, you might be getting more than you bargained for with a smoothie in the sugar department. In Virginia Beach everyone loves Tropical Smoothie. Other areas of the country have places like Jamba Juice to cool them down in the summer. When you go to these places and look on the menu you can see what the main ingredients are in the smoothies, but not EVERYTHING is listed. One day I was curious so I tried using my eagle eye vision to look over the counter at the back wall to see where they had all the recipes listed for each smoothie. These are the complete recipes that only the employees see, so they know how to make each smoothie. I noticed that in each smoothie, the first ingredient for almost all of them was 1 scoop of turbinado sugar, and the 'scoop' was not a little one. Now, for those of you who don't know, turbinado is a less refined and less processed form of table sugar, so it is a better option in that sense, but sugar is still sugar. Fruit is already very sweet naturally, so next time you go to a smoothie place, ask them to skip the sugar, and if you wanna get even more out of your smoothie tell them to throw in a scoop of whey protein! I promise that smoothie will be just as tasty and refreshing and your body will thank you! :)

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