Everybody loves a slushy when it’s hot outside! Blend them in just 5 minutes with whole fruit, which is WAY healthier than juice! Store-bought fruit juices are heat processed, stripped of fiber, acidifying, glycemic, tasteless, and low in nutrients. These thick slushies use whole fruit including fiber, blended all together with ice.
Commercial fruit slurpies are notoriously high in glycemic sugars. A good home blender is a great investment to keep everybody healthy and lower your sugar consumption. Choose your own non-glycemic sweetener – or skip it completely – in your homemade creations so there’s no blood sugar spike. The photo above is my Raspberry Apricot Slushie. Oooooh, yum yum! It’s so, so good! I want you to create hundreds of your own luscious combinations from the basic recipe. See my suggested variations at the bottom. Makes two 8-oz. slushies. Or four 4-oz. slushies.
Ingredients
- 6 ounces raspberries, fresh or frozen
- 4 ripe apricots, coarsely sliced
- Zest of 1 organic orange
- 1 tablespoon optional sweetener to taste such as Just Like Sugar Table Top natural chicory root sweetener, or 1/2 teaspoon PureLo Lo Han Sweetener by Swanson, or 2 teaspoons raw honey, or your favorite sweetener.
- 1 cup crushed ice
- 1/4 cup cold water if needed to blend
Instructions
- Place all the ingredients in a high speed blender such as BlendTec or VitaMix. Or a food processor. Process until it gets slushy. Stop and move the blender contents around if necessary. Don't overmix or it will melt.
- Pour into glasses and enjoy immediately.
Variations:
Berry Cherry Slushy
- 6 ounces raspberries, fresh or frozen
- 6 ounces frozen cherries
- juice of 1 lemon or lime
- Zest of one organic orange
- 1 cup crushed ice
- 1/4 cup water, or more as needed to blend
- 2 teaspoons sweetener to taste such as Just Like Sugar Table Top natural chicory root sweetener, or 1/2 teaspoon PureLo Lo Han Sweetener by Swanson, or 1 teaspoon raw honey, or your favorite sweetener.
Strawberry Papaya Slushy
- 6 ounces strawberries, fresh of frozen
- 1 medium papaya, peeled and seeded
- juice of 1 lemon or lime
- Zest of one organic orange
- 1 cup crushed ice
- 1/4 cup water, or more as needed to blend
- 2 teaspoons sweetener to taste such as Just Like Sugar Table Top natural chicory root sweetener, or 1/2 teaspoon PureLo Lo Han Sweetener by Swanson, or 1 teaspoon raw honey, or your favorite sweetener.
Superfruit Peach Slushy:
- 2 ripe peaches
- 4 ounces blueberries
- 4 ounces blackberries
- 1 tablespoon goji berries
- Zest of one organic orange
- juice of 1 lemon or lime
- 1 cup crushed ice
- 1/4 cup water, or more as needed to blend
- 2 teaspoons sweetener to taste such as Just Like Sugar Table Top natural chicory root sweetener, or 1/2 teaspoon PureLo Lo Han Sweetener by Swanson, or 1 teaspoon raw honey, or your favorite sweetener.
Make your own variations and share them in the comments below!
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