I used to work at a boutique hotel bar that prided itself on being “unpretentious” even though they sold $18 charcoal infused cocktails. When I pointed out to my manager that charcoal messed with a bunch of medications (and that daiquiri was misspelled on our menu) and was basically told to shut up, I knew it was time to quit.
Steve, I told you then and I'll say it again: SHUT. UP. Okay? Nobody is getting knocked up in our hotel, nobody is becoming depressed and/or psychotic, nobody's ADHD is getting worse because of us, and nobody is going to sue us. Okay? YOU'RE FIRED!!!1!!1
The pigment in red dragonfruit overpowers literally any other colors you throw into a smoothie. Also, unlike beet juice, it has the benefit of not staining everything afterwards.
we are going through a cost of living crisis here. this man is working FOR THE PEOPLE by buying varied products, trialling them, giving us the honest takes, and saving all of us money and time THANK YOU!
If you're having price problems, don't buy expensive ingredients regardless of recommendations, stick it out with rice and potato till you're in a spot where a bumped grocery bill isn't going to hit your bank anymore
In undergrad my go-to smoothie at the dining hall smoothie place was mango, pineapple and kale for produce, and it was a nice pretty bright green colour. Greens in smoothie only become gross colours when you include other strongly coloured fruits. 😊
I've been putting cauliflower and peeled cucumbers in my smoothies for a while for the aesthetic but to be honest they're a good addition to dilute the whole sugar bomb that smoothies actually are 😄
I just started an internship with my uni's athletics dept, and will be teaching the athletes how to make smoothies, definitely going to incorporate some of these tips!
i have no qualms about drinking colorful, “sugary” smoothies because i almost never have desserts in my apartment and smoothies are basically the only way i can get fruits into my diet (whereas I have no problems working veggies in regularly). I make a smoothie with strawberries, blueberries, and a banana and add the silk almond & cashew milk with pea protein, chocolate pb2, lemon juice, hemp hearts, flaxseeds, and chia seeds. It’s delicious, has a decent amount of protein and fat, and fills in gaps in my diet. Everything in moderation :)
@@giannis5250 absolutely I can! But usually i don’t. I’m not a big snacker and if I have, say, an apple that I plan to eat alongside a meal I always forget about it until I’m full. the types of smoothies I tend to make are more complete as a meal replacement on busy or low appetite days than just some fruit.
It never occurred to me to decorate my smoothies as ostentatiously as I decorate coffee or cocktails but it really is same shit different toilet… Excellent video as usual Shaq, you’ve spared my nutribullet another sad year collecting dust in the back of my closet
If you like to add greek yoghurt in your smoodie i really recommend Fage brand, because even the nonfat version is thick and smooth and creamy and luxurious. Plus, it's actually strained yoghurt with just nonfat milk and live cultures, no thickeners or binders or gels or gums, it's glorious.
@@shawnsg It's not harmful, but it's a sign that it has more water in it. I guess that doesn't strictly matter if you're only using it in a smoothie, as long as you don't care about not getting as much product for your money.
I think a good black colored substitute for smoothies would be black cocoa powder. Like make a chocolate smoothie and add black cocoa to make it much darker
THANK YOU for that warning on activated charcoal! I always see people talk about how pretty is makes food but no one ever talks about how it affects medication. Would hate for a day of HRT to go to waste just cause i wanted the cool grey ice cream with the black ice cream cone 🥴
A little bit of frozen mango has a *huge* impact on making your smoothie a nice smooth texture. I use frozen berries often as my base and it's a game changer. No name is the best I'm finding right now out west.
My trick is that whenever I am at a low point of my week and I have a existential "event" I consume every vitamin and fiber rich vegetable in my immediate vicinity. No smoothie, nothing pretty, just a complete lizard brain fueled augmentation of entropy.
@@lycheeblossoms7443 I usually black out soon after as the "event" is usually in the night. The next day I feel great but my toilet probably doesn't. Blood work is good, so I'll keep doing it. Kinda feel like I don't have a choice sometimes...
I make my smoothies pretty by layering them in! The bottom layer can be a little ugly with spinach, but the top layer or layers will leverage dragon fruit and blue spirulana. As a whole, it ends up looking very pretty.
Your videos are incredibly well written Edit: It's actually insane, you make so many seamless references to popular internet communities without breaking the flow of the sentence, people who get it will be more engaged and the people who don't won't even notice because of how smooth it is.
@@avacadomangobanana2588 In hindsight, I think I could have worded my complement better, in some other videos he sometimes references popular youtube manosphere and men's fitness ideas, it's usually woven into the sentence such that even if you aren't a part of those communities and don't consume any content from them you still understand what he's saying. I can't word it perfectly as my English needs improvement but this is how I feel about it. Though I don't know if he does this intentionally. One thing he does do well that I can explain is sprinkle in ideas not directly related to the video but he doesn't linger on them long enough for the viewer to be disconnected from the main content of the video. But lingers on it just long enough to get the viewer thinking about it. For example, when he's talking about smoothie prices and how most people would find those prices absurd yet feel it's justified to pay more to poison themselves with alcohol, doesn't linger on it, doesn't say alcohol bad!!! or anything as such but just plants an idea in the viewer's head to think about.
I have done the beet thing for a while now. I thinly slice the beets and put them with a 50/50 water and natural honey mix in a pot on low heat and it makes a vibrant syrup to line your glass with.
I make kale smoothies most mornings with Apple and Mango. They're generally bright green. I also make strawberry, banana, blueberry and raspberry smoothies, they're super pretty and bright pink. I just add a tiny touch of honey and water.
Shaq the Goat of RU-vid Fr, I love that you're revisiting older vids and presenting your changed views on stuff WHILE making a dope food vid. absolute savage informative as always will try making that coconut cloud smoodie.
This is crazy perfect timing for us down in Australia, smoothing out my summer. P.S. activated charcoal is used in paracetamol (acetaminophen) overdose due to this.
I sometimes take for granted Internet Shaquille. Then I remember how my life was before short form, well documented, genuinly funny food content came into my life, and stop for a few minutes to praise the lord for this blessing. God save Netshaq.
Thank you SO MUCH for the brief coconut cream guide. I have gotten that from an Asian food store, but otherwise found it difficult to locate. I wanted some for a chicken recipe, but was largely confused as to what I was supposed to get. Very helpful!
I love spinach and I love smoothies but my stupid brain refuses to drink smoothies with spinach in them because of the color it becomes. It makes me nauseous even though it tastes no different. May have to try some of these alternate methods!
This sort of aesthetic change might seem silly, but I’d be so much more willing to drink something pretty than a greyish brown slugde, and it feels really cool to make something that looks nice (plus you can show off!)
As someone who goes to erewhon almost everyday for a smoothie, I can't thank you enough for this video!!!!!1! If these hats are for sale I'd love to buy one for my next erewhon haul where I won't be getting a smoothie, cuz I can make it at home like the skill issued home cook I am
@@ranger_1472 Frozen spinach usually comes in little rectangular packages. It's like it's chopped and compressed. Real easy to miss if you don't know what it looks like
Thanks for mentioning activated charcoal's risks -- I cringe every time I see people use it as ""healthy"" food coloring, especially when they say it's good for you because of the "detoxifying" properties. Which... when you're in the hospital having overdosed on something? Sure. Day-to-day as a supplement? Probably not.
Putting a spoonful of Ashwaganda in my shake as a shilajit supplement and having my Thyroid gland explode because some importer marketed it as "Horse Strength Herb" that increases your testosterone and makes you strong (like horse).
You’re completely right on pretty smoothies being nothing, but sugar. I want to point this out, because smoothies can be surprisingly calorically dense. The only vegans that I’ve seen become obese ate a ton of processed foods + smoothies or shakes.
Hey Shaq I love your videos but haven’t watched this yet because I am a very busy man. But I wanted to say that dragonfruit powder gives me smoothies a lovely pink color even when they’re loaded with kale. I’m also experimenting with purple yam powder, though I don’t know if this one makes them more or less healthy
1.5 C mixed berries, 1 C kale, throw in some "Amazing" berry greens powder and some ground chia or flax seeds. 1.5 C water or juice Super nutritious, tastes great, and berry-color.
Wow I just had a flashback. The topic, the weather, I can't believe I've been watching you since like 2018. Time passes so fast. I have a vivid memory of listening to your video about one of those overpriced nutrition things while packing up our old shop around this time four years ago. Went back and looked, yup.
A good thing to do is add a bit of concentrated lemon or lime juice, don't overblend, and any leftovers don't store in a container with a huge amount of extra open space, to reduce oxidization.
WILD BLUEBERRIES (can but frozen at most grocery stores) will cover up any and all green or brown smoothies. Dark purple is very appetizing... And very nutritious. I add all kinds of powders and greens and such to my smoothie when i have blueberries in it.
Thank you for this video. Look, I know rationally that a brown smoothie is fine, but my brain sees the color and shrieks, "It's poison! It's old! Brown fruit is rotten!." Plus, my blender can't quite handle spinach or seeds and still achieve a smooth consistency. I'll sacrifice those five spinach leaves to shut it up.
I'd never consider a cauliflower swap for spinach / kale in a smoothie because those greens add much needed vitamin K in order to absorb vitamin D appropriately without stripping calcium from our bones. Trust me, for women this is especially foundational to deal with bone density and bone health. I do use cauliflower instead of grains for lots of other things though. Love your channel and videos!
Charcoal might also cause heavy obstipations. Combine it with banana and have fun with your intestines getting clogged. Medic Charcoal should only be used when you're having diarrhea. Or when your doctor prescribes it to you for whatever reason.
Will say, saw the White Truffle Truff at the start when talking about the obscene prices. If you can ever get that on sale, cash in. Got a place that sells it half-off once a month and it is the #1 hot sauce I've had. But let it be known I will not spend 40 bucks on it. Maybe. Probably. I don't know it's an addiction at this point.
Ugliness is one thing but mainly I don't want to be tasting earthy green flavors in my smoothies. I've been wanting to try spirulina though, I hear it has a lot of benefits.
What you said about supplements you've never heard of is so true! Ashwagandha can end up makig autoimmune conditions worse for many people. Be cautious, folks.
...no. It is not a vasodilator, it has the potential to increase smooth muscle elasticity. No viable peer-reviewed study has found a measurable increase in Time To Exhaustion in healthy individuals given a pre-workout dose of beet root. The only studies that have shown a "performance benefit" from beetroot used patients with severe heart failure as their test subjects. Unless you are suffering from profound atherosclerosis, slamming beetroot before your workout is nothing more than a placebo. The whole beetroot craze is like people reading studies that say defibrillation gives people suffering ventricular fibrillation a 55% higher chance of living, and thereby extrapolating that defibrillators must make your healthy heart work better too, right? Shock me up! Can you put lightning in a smoothie?
Is it safe to use frozen vegetables without cooking them? They typically have the same warnings about cooking to 165°F as meats and such. Is that due to the blanching? Because obviously frozen fruit is fine, and non-frozen vegetables are fine to eat raw.
sorry im kind of confused, why are fruit smoothies unhealthy? do people add sugar or maple syrup something? because youre supposed to eat like 5 servings of fruit per day and a smoothie with just skim milk/plant milk/greek yogurt seems fine. maybe not as nutritionally dense as if you add veggies, but not unhealthy. is this like a gym bulk/cut thing?
