Probiotic Raspberry Smoothie

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I’ve been trying to findlots of extra ways to get probiotics into my diet during this pregnancy.  I want to make sure I build a healthy gut forour baby.  I’ve been drinking lots ofwater kefir, eating sauerkraut, and taking my probiotics daily.  But, I wanted some other options too.  I don’t care for the taste of plain yogurt,but it’s loaded with probiotics and it’s good for your gut, so I wanted to finda way to consume it daily.  I’ve beenadding it to smoothies – fruit smoothies, green smoothies, pumpkin piesmoothies … you get the picture. 
I know raspberries are notin season right now, but they are a low sugar fruit and I’ve been craving theirtangy flavor.  Some of you are luckyenough to have harvested them during the summer and have freezers loaded withfrozen berries.  If you do, this is agreat way to use some of them.  Forothers like me, check your local natural foods store for frozen organicraspberries, my local co-op has sales on them regularly, so I like to stock upon them then.   
I hope you enjoy thistangy smoothie as much as I do. 
Probiotic Raspberry Smoothie
Equipment: Blender
·     2 ½ cups frozenorganic raspberries·     1 mediumorganic banana – fresh or frozen·     1 – 1 ½ cupsraw whole milk or full fat coconut milk·     1 cup organicwhole plain yogurt, such as St. Benoit ·     1 tablespoonraw honey or sweetener of choice·     1 probiotic capsule, empty capsule (optional, See Note)


1.   Add frozenraspberries, banana (broken into pieces), milk, yogurt, honey, and emptiedprobiotic capsule into blender. 




2.  Blend untilsmooth and combined, about 1 minute. 



3.  Serveimmediately or freeze for later.  

Note: Theonly high quality probiotic that I recommend is Bio-Kult Probiotic.  It can be emptied from the capsule, whichmakes it great for kids – you can put it in drinks, smoothies, food etc.   
Yield: Makesabout 5 cups.
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