DIDACTIC UNIT 2. 6TH COURSE. THE ORIGIN OF FOOD:SMOOTHIES. PART 1

THE ORIGIN OF FOOD: SMOOTHIES 

Have you ever tasted smoothies?  They are very healthy.

Read the following text. Say whether the following statements 

are  true (T) or false (F). 

Smoothies were invented on June 23, 1940 by Mabel Stegner, a worker in Waring Corportation. She published a recipe book called ‘Recipes to make your Waring –Go-Round’ where she described 12 milk smoothies using blenders to make them.

In the late 1960’s , blenders were popular in the US. Smoothies became even more popular in the 1990’s and 2000’s by being sold at coffee shops.

Health smoothies were first invented by Steve Kuhnau who was experimenting on his health and it worked for him. He opened a health food store named Smoothie King  in Louisianna in 1973 where he was selling smoothie drinks. Smoothie King  has grown to a chain of stores. even expanding nowadays to Seoul,Korea and all over US. Steve Kuhnau branded the name smoothie hence referring to how fruit juices were made by hippies.

A smoothie is a mixture of fruits or vegetables pureed in a blender with water,sweeteners or ice. Dairy products like milk, yogurt, low fat, cheese are added. Sweeteners are like sugar, syrup and honey. Other smoothies you get herbal or nutritional supplements. It maybe a myth or an irony that smoothies have been made years before as pureed fruit drinks, until the blender and the refrigerator were invented that now smoothies are easily made.

.        Smoothies are best for your health and they are those that help in adding vitamins and antioxidants in your body. A smoothie is very different from juice.With juices the liquid is extracted from a fruit while a smoothie contains the fruits or vegetables on the whole hence the whole fibre is not lost.

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