Smoothies can be a healthy meal replacement or delicious refreshment. If you make your own smoothie you can be in control of how much and what type of sugar goes into it. However if you order a smoothie from a convenience store or neighborhood restaurant be aware of the hidden ingredients like ice cream and frozen yogurt which have added white sugar. Take a look at some popular ones below and make the better choice.
Sugar can lead to weight gain and diabetes.
Try to consume foods that have natural sugar like fruit.
 Naked Mighty Mango
100% Juice Smoothie
Nutrition Facts
In 1 bottle:
Calories: 300
Sugar: 60 grams
Ingredients:
1 1/4 Mango
1 Orange
1 3/4 Apple
1/3 Banana
A hint of lemon
 Jamba Juice Strawberries Wild
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 16 oz:
Calories: 250
Sugar: 52 grams
Ingredients: Apple Strawberry Juice blend Nonfat Vanilla Yogurt, Frozen Strawberries, Frozen Bananas, Ice
 Odwalla Berries GoMega Juice
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size, 1 Bottle
Calories 320
Sugar 48g
Ingredients: apple juice, orange juice, cherry, peach, mango, blackberry and strawberry purees, ground flaxseed, lemon juice, inulin and ascorbic acid. Notice no preservatives and it is a 97% juice/puree blend
 Baskin-Robbins Mango Fruit Blast
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size (24 fl oz) Medium
Calories 620
Sugar 144g
Ingredients: mango base (mango puree, sugar, water, natural flavor, and potassium sorbate (a preservative), water, nonfat vanilla yogurt (nonfat milk, cultured pasteurized nonfat milk, cane sugar, corn syrup, microcrystalline cellulose, mono & diglycerides, carob bean gum, cellulose gum, guar gum, food starch, carrageenan, maltodextrin, vanilla and vanillin extract, yellow 5, yellow 6, variable yogurt cultures).
 Smoothie King Pineapple Surf
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size 20 oz:
Calories: 461
Sugar: 92 grams
Ingredients: Pineapple, Strawberries, Kiwi, Protein Blend, Turbinado, Vanilla, Honey
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