Cacao Smoothie | Gwyneth Paltrow Creamy Coconut Avocado Cacao Smoothie
Cacao Smoothie
A whole energy blend that can help elevate your mood. The cacao smoothie is the kind of shake that tastes too good to be healthy, but with all that superfood energy and power, it is an ideal breakfast. You’ll be like the little kid who can’t believe they get to eat chocolate in the morning.
About Gwyneth Paltrow’s Creamy Avocado Cacao Smoothie
Do you remember when you were a kid and, for special occasions, your parents might give you chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast? If you were anything like me, you would get excited. Chocolate for breakfast?!?! The Gwyneth Paltrow Creamy Avocado Cacao Smoothie is like the adult version of that feeling; a healthy dose of cacao blended into a creamy avocado based breakfast smoothie. Gwyneth Paltrow credits this avocado based smoothie to Dr Frank Lipman of the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center. Creamy and sumptuous, Gwyneth adds cacao powder and hemp seeds for a dose of super foods in her breakfast shake. It’s hard to believe this is a breakfast drink. The Gwyneth Paltrow Creamy Avocado Cacao Smoothie is a quick mix, just toss the ingredients into your Blendtec or Vitamix blender and your breakfast will be ready in seconds. For easy blending we recommend using a high powered Blendtec or Vitamix blender! Make sure to check out The Daily Vitamin add on boosts for easy to blend superfood powders that provide many health benefits.
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Coconut Avocado Cacao Smoothie by Gwyneth Paltrow
- 1 ripe avocado, peeled and pitted
- 1 cup fresh coconut water
- 1 cup cold unsweetened almond milk
- 1 tablespoon raw cacao powder
- 1 heaping tablespoon ground hemp seeds
- 1 tablespoon raw honey
- 1. Put all ingredients in your blender jar.
- 2. Blendtec blender: Press the Whole Juice button, or let the blender run on a high speed for around 1 minute or until liquified.
- 3. Vitamix blender: Turn the knob to Whole Juice and flip the on switch. If you don’t have the automatic preset then start on speed 1/low, slowly turn the knob to speed 10, then flip it to high. Let it run for around 1 minute.
- 4. Serve in two frosty mugs.
Avocado smoothies are creamy and luxurious, add a dash of cacao to your blend and it will start to feel simply decadent. The Gwyneth Paltrow Creamy Avocado Cacao Smoothie recipe also has hemp seeds, one of the world’s few non animal based complete proteins containing all 8 amino acids.
Recipe by: Paltrow, Gweneth. It’s All Good: Delicious, Easy Recipes. Hatchette Book Group. 2013
Recipe Type: drink, smoothie, juice
Category: smoothie, drink, beverage, breakfast, snack,
Servings: Makes 2 Servings
Special Equipment:
Blendtec blender, Vitamix Blender, Blender Bottle, Measuring cup, Measuring spoon, Large Glass, To Go Container
Ingredient Health Benefits
The coconut tree is a member of the family Arecaceae. It is the only accepted species in the genus Cocos. Coconut water is actually the juice in the endosperm of young, tender coconuts. Its water is consumed worldwide for its nutritious and health benefiting properties. The water is obtained by opening a tender, green, healthy, and undamaged coconut. Inside, it’s clear liquid is sweet, and sterile and composed of unique chemicals such as sugars, vitamins, minerals, electrolytes, enzymes, amino acids, cytokine, and phyto-hormones. Coconut water helps electrolyte balance and blood sugar regulation.
The avocado is a tree classified in the flowering plant family Lauraceae. The fruit of the tree is very high in monounsaturated fat. Though mostly comprised of fat, avocados are also an excellent source of dietary fiber. Avocados are also high in Vitamin C, Vitamin B6, Potassium, and Magnesium. Research studies suggest a diet that is rich in monounsaturated fatty acids helps lower LDL or bad cholesterol and increases HDL or good cholesterol.
Almond Milk is a plant milk produced by soaking almonds and grinding them in water. The almond is a species of tree native to the Middle East and South Asia, mostly we are familiar with almonds as the edible seeds of this tree. Almonds are powerhouses of nutrition, containing monounsaturated fats that lower LDL cholesterol and are protective against cardiovascular disease. Almonds are rich in biotin, and contain large amounts of Vitamin E, Manganese, Copper, Vitamin B2, phosphorus, magnesium, and molybdenum. Your Reading the Smoothie Ingredients Guide Health Benefits and Facts.
Cacao is the dried and fully fermented fatty seed of Theobroma cacao. Cacao is a powerful superfood that has centuries of recorded traditional and medicinal use. It is high in antioxidants, iron and fiber, and contains the unique nutrition theobromine, a mild stimulant that some believe can treat depression. It may cause the brain to produce more of a neurotransmitter called anandamide which some people say is why chocoholism exists.
Hemp is a commonly used term for high-growing varieties of the Cannabis plant and its products, which include fiber, oil, and seed. Hemp seeds are a great source of nutritious protein and deliver the tough to find amino acid, GLA. Hemp seeds are rich in protein and contain omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, Vitamin A, Vitamin E, Bitamin B-12, folic acid and are rich in magnesium, potassium, iron and magnesium.
Honey is a sweet food made by bees using nectar from flowers. The variety produced by honey bees is the one most commonly referred to, as it is the type of honey collected by most beekeepers and consumed by people. Honey’s sweet taste comes from sugar, so it should be consumed in moderation. Honey does contains trace amounts of vitamins and minerals, and also antioxidants that have shown anti-inflammatory and to reduce homocysteine and bad cholesterol levels. Honey is a better choice of sweeteners than refined sugars – but even with natural nutritional benefits it is still a sweetener made primarily of fructose.
