Blueberry Mint Green Smoothie

How to Make Blueberry Mint Green Smoothie

SERVINGS: 1
PREP TIME: 5 MINUTES
COOK TIME: 0 MINUTES
MEAL: SNACK-DESSERT
STYLE: WESTERN
PREPARATION: SMOOTHIE, RAW, PUREE
EAT IN: SUMMER
FOR OCCASION: CLEANSE

INGREDIENTS

1 tsp	MINT
1 c	BLUEBERRY
1/3 lbs	KALE

PREPARATION OF THIS HEALTHY RECIPE

Step 1: Juice kale with 3-4 mint stems with leaves.

Step 2: Puree kale juice and blueberries in a blender.

Serve chilled.

How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?

CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW

Refresh your body and relax your mind this summer with Blueberry Mint Green smoothie. This delicious treat is packed with anti-oxidants and green vitality. Blueberry bursts in your mouth with a tart sweetness that enlivens your tastebuds. The aroma of mint brings refreshing clarity to your mind and lightness to your body. It also disperses heat and helps your sweat, leaving a cooling after effect.

Cool Your Mind

A few sips and you'll notice reduced agitation, a relaxing sensation in the eyes, and a cool feeling in your skin. Experience it for yourself! As blueberry cools your mind and collects your thoughts, you'll understand why the delectable blueberry has been called the brain berry.

Strengthen Your Liver

Together, the dynamic duo of blueberry and kale are a powerful aid to your liver. Early summer berries like blueberry cool your blood and nourish your liver. Greens like Kale cleanse your liver. The bitter bite of kale is off-set by blueberry's alluring sweetness, and your body still receives it's cleansing effect.

Exercise caution if you have a weak digestion. Cooling, raw ingredients like blueberry and kale could make your digestion too cold. Kale and blueberry also contain oxalic acids. Exercises caution if you have a history of kidney stones.

This smoothie is tridoshic, so appropriate for all types, but especially helps Pitta due to its cooling nature. If you know you'll be sitting in traffic under the hot summer sun soon, bring this drink to go! Consider it a road-rage tonic.

WHAT IS BLUEBERRY MINT GREEN SMOOTHIE?

AYURVEDA'S GUIDE TO VITALITY & WHOLESOME NOURISHMENT

Your Ayurvedic diet is tailored to your individual body and your specific imbalances. With an Ayurvedic diet you feel joy and satisfaction because what you are eating truly nourishes and balances you. Disease results from diets and lifestyles that are incompatible with your nature. By eating a personalized diet matched to your body, you experience optimal health. See How it Works.

Is Blueberry Mint Green Smoothie Good for My Ayurvedic Diet?

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Metabolic Nature of Blueberry Mint Green Smoothie

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METABOLIC NATURE

Metabolic Nature

Ayurveda assesses metabolic imbalances through 20 main biocharacteristics (gunas). Aggravating them weakens your body and causes imbalance. By knowing which biocharacteristics are habitually imbalanced in your body, you will be able to identify and correct metabolic imbalances before you get sick. Every biocharacteristic has an opposite which balances it (i.e. hot balances cold). You restore balance by favoring diet and lifestyle choices that increase the opposite biocharacteristic.
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LIGHT

ABOUT LIGHT BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Lightness is identified by reduced weight.

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COLD

ABOUT COLD BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Cold refers to anything that reduces body temperature, metabolism, and blood flow.

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EASY

ABOUT EASY BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Easy refers to anything easy to digest, or digests quickly.

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LIQUEFIED

ABOUT LIQUEFIED BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Substances that thin fluids (lower viscosity of blood plasma). These may include blood thinners or mucolytic herbs.

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TASTES

The 6 Tastes

Taste is used to sense the most basic properties and effects of food. Each taste has a specific medicinal effect on your body. Cravings for food with certain tastes indicate your body is craving specific medicinal results from food. Taste is experienced on the tongue and represents your body's reaction to foods. Sweet taste causes physical satisfaction and attraction whereas bitter taste causes discomfort and aversion. Kapha should use less sweet taste while Vata and Pitta would benefit from using more sweet taste. One of the first signs of illness is that your taste and appetite for food changes. The six tastes are sweet, sour, salty, pungent, bitter, and astringent. Do you crave foods with any of the tastes below?
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SOUR

ABOUT SOUR BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Sour refers to anything fermented or acidic.

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DOSHAS

The Three Doshas / Body Types

Ayurveda is a metabolic theory of medicine that explains individual health, tendencies, and disease patterns through the concept of doshas, which can be understood as your metabolic patterns and tendencies.
Each dosha reflects a distinct metabolic nature and describes strengths & weaknesses in bodily function, and how these affect energy levels, digestion, susceptibility to disease, and many other tendencies.
Your metabolic nature not only affects your physical characteristics, but also influences your mental thought patterns, confidence, and enthusiasm.
Ayurveda balances these metabolic strengths & weaknesses to support your body's vitality and prevent recurrent disease cycles. This support is a critical aid, especially in chronic or incurable disease conditions.
The 3 metabolic body types (doshas), are Catabolic (Vata), Metabolic (Pitta), and Anabolic (Kapha).
Through dosha, Ayurveda empowers people to identify metabolic imbalances early, break repetitive patterns of disease, and cultivate habits that support long-term vitality and well-being.
Ultimately, these metabolic patterns also provide a framework for understanding yourself, including body, mind, and spiritual tendencies.
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PACIFIES

AGGRAVATES

GREEK MEDICINE / TEMPERAMENTS

The Four Temperaments / Humors

Ayurveda & Greek Medicine were the dominant form of medicine along the Silk Road from England to China and South Asia. They work by assessing your metabolic type, patterns, and nature. Greek medicine recognizes 4 metabolic temperaments, Melancholic, Choleric, Sanguine, and Phlegmatic.
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PACIFIES

CHOLERIC

ABOUT CHOLERIC BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Has a hot and dry metabolic nature. Enthusiastic, vibrant and bright. In excess burns up fluids and ojas, irritable. Corresponds to high bilirubin in the blood that irritates and heats up the body and liver.

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PHLEGMATIC

ABOUT PHLEGMATIC BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Wet & cold. When out of balance becomes congested, stagnant, and overweight. Loving, trusting, and patient.

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SANGUINE

ABOUT SANGUINE BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Hot and oily with a moderate metabolism and a well nourished body. Vigorous, vivacious, outgoing and generous, and prone to impulsivity and self indulgence. Bullish and intense when out of balance.

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AGGRAVATES

MELANCHOLIC

ABOUT MELANCHOLIC BIOCHARACTERISTIC

Cold and dry with a slow, variable or erratic metabolism. Colicky, tense. Withdrawn, pensive, anxious, and hesitant. Analytical, intelligent, detail oriented and creative. Prone to ojas depletion, dehydration, an overactive nervous system, and depression.

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Other

Subtaste:

Aromatic

AROMATIC

Herbs or spices with volatile essential oils that present strong aromas. Aromatic oils shock, refresh and numb tissue, with the end result of relaxing, opening and clearing stagnant fluids in tissues.

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Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Blueberry Mint Green Smoothie
Experiences are Personal
Experiences vary according to the person and constitution. Individual results may vary. The list of herbal-actions below has not be approved by the FDA and should not be used to treat a medical condition.

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Digestion:

Appetite Suppressant

APPETITE-SUPPRESSANT

Suppresses hunger without causing weight gain.

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Stimulates Peristalsis

STIMULATES-PERISTALSIS

An herb that promotes involuntary smooth muscle contractions to facilitate the movement of food and waste through the digestive tract.

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Cleanse & Detox:

Internal Detoxicant

INTERNAL-DETOXICANT

Liquefies, dissolves, decongests or dislodges internal stagnant toxins. Decongests the lymphatic system.

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Mind, Stress & Sleep:

Wakes You Up

WAKES-YOU-UP

Invigorates the body and nervous system, increases energy.

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Stimulates Crown

STIMULATES-CROWN

Creates a feeling of awareness or tension in the area at the top of the head.

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Stimulates Front Of Brain

STIMULATES-FRONT-OF-BRAIN

Creates a feeling of awareness or tension in the area in the forehead. Activates the frontal lobe - the area responsible for motor function, emotional expression, thinking, and decision making.

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Dopaminergic

DOPAMINERGIC

Dopamine lifts mood, but also reduces prolactin, follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), and lutenizing hormone (LH).

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Brain Tonic

BRAIN-TONIC

An herb that strengthens the brain and thereby enhances memory or other cognitive functions and improves mental stamina or stability.

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Energy Vitality:

Refreshing

REFRESHING

Stimulates and wakes up the body, leaving it feeling cool, fresh, and energized.

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Stimulates Energy

STIMULATES-ENERGY

This category groups thyroid and adrenal stimulating herbs.

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Skin Care & Beauty:

Refreshes Skin

REFRESHES-SKIN

Flushes the lymphatic system to cool, awaken, and revive the skin.

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Diaphoretic

DIAPHORETIC

An herb that induces sweating, often by dilating blood vessels close to the skin.

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Immune System:

Anti Inflammatory

ANTI-INFLAMMATORY

Reduces inflammation in the body. Different herbs and carriers target different body systems.

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Heart & Circulation:

Antioxidant

ANTIOXIDANT

An antioxidant is a molecule that inhibits oxidation. Oxidation is a chemical reaction that can produce free radicals that lead to a chain reaction causing damage or death to cells. Antioxidants terminate these oxidation reactions.

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Blood Tonic

BLOOD-TONIC

An herb that produces more blood cells in the body, or otherwise improves blood cell quality or hemoglobin content. Helpful for anemia and other types of deficiency.

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Alterative

ALTERATIVE

Restores the proper function of the body by cleansing the blood and balancing blood chemistry. In Ayurveda terms, they pacify Pitta in rakta. They were traditionally used to revitalize and detoxify after a long winter.

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Opthalmic

OPTHALMIC

Benefits the eyes, vision tonic.

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Refrigerant

REFRIGERANT

An herb or substance that strongly cools the body. Can be helpful in cases of heat conditions.

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Kidney & Urinary:

Kidney Tonic

KIDNEY-TONIC

An herb that strengthens the kidneys.

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Liver & Gallbladder:

Livotonic

LIVOTONIC

An herb that strengthens the liver. It is helpful for people with a history of substance abuse, chronic liver issues from hepatitis and hemolytic anemias. Generally, liver tonics are oily, cool, sweet, mildly sour, or contain beta-carotene.

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Weight Loss:

Lowers Blood Sugar

LOWERS-BLOOD-SUGAR

An herb that lowers blood sugar.

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Constituents:

Polyphenols

POLYPHENOLS

Polyphenols are powerful antioxidants seen in many fruits and vegetables. There are more than 8,000 types.

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Flavonoids

FLAVONOIDS

Flavonoids are a colorful type of polyphenol. As all polyphenols, they have a strong antioxidant effect. Many flavonoids have an anti-inflammatory, and/or antiallergen effect.

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, Vitamin C,

Aromatase Inhibitor

AROMATASE-INHIBITOR

Blocks estrogen synthesis by inhibiting conversion of progesterone and testosterone into estrogen.

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, Vitamin K, Soluble Fiber,

Resveratrol

RESVERATROL

Antioxidant frequently used for anti-aging. Protects airways and blood vessels. Anti-inflammatory and anti-diabetic.

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Nitric Oxide

NITRIC-OXIDE

Improves circulation by dilating blood vessels. Protects blood vessels from damage. Improves athletic performance, libido, immunity, and brain health.

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, Vitamin E, Quercitin, Potassium,

Calcium

CALCIUM

Calcium nourishes bones and muscles. A muscle cell is activated when calcium enters the cell. It relaxes when the calcium is secreted.

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, Vitamin A,

Coumarin

COUMARIN

Moderately toxic, vascular tonic, hypotensive, and anti-inflammatory.

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Rosmarinic Acid

ROSMARINIC-ACID

Inhibits autoantibodies from binding to TSH receptors in the thyroid.

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Iron

IRON

Iron is necessary for the transport of oxygen in red blood cells.

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Foods with a Similar Nature to Blueberry Mint Green Smoothie

Blueberry

Blueberry has these Actions in Common
Alterative, Blood-tonic, Livotonic, Refreshing, Anti-inflammatory, Brain-tonic, Lowers-blood-sugar, Refrigerant, Antioxidant, Kidney-tonic, Opthalmic
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Acai

Acai has these Actions in Common
Alterative, Appetite-suppressant, Refreshing, Anti-inflammatory, Brain-tonic, Refrigerant, Antioxidant, Livotonic, Wakes-you-up
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Dandelion Leaves

Dandelion Leaves has these Actions in Common
Anti-inflammatory, Internal-detoxicant, Stimulates-energy, Antioxidant, Livotonic, Stimulates-peristalsis, Alterative, Appetite-suppressant, Lowers-blood-sugar
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Mint

Mint has these Actions in Common
Diaphoretic, Refreshes-skin, Stimulates-energy, Dopaminergic, Refreshing, Stimulates-front-of-brain, Internal-detoxicant, Stimulates-crown, Wakes-you-up
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Red Leaf Lettuce

Red Leaf Lettuce has these Actions in Common
Lowers-blood-sugar, Stimulates-energy, Alterative, Opthalmic, Stimulates-peristalsis, Antioxidant, Refrigerant, Wakes-you-up
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Pomegranate

Pomegranate has these Actions in Common
Anti-inflammatory, Internal-detoxicant, Refrigerant, Antioxidant, Livotonic, Alterative, Blood-tonic, Opthalmic
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Kale

Kale has these Actions in Common
Appetite-suppressant, Stimulates-energy, Alterative, Internal-detoxicant, Stimulates-peristalsis, Anti-inflammatory, Lowers-blood-sugar
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White Vinegar

White Vinegar has these Actions in Common
Alterative, Diaphoretic, Lowers-blood-sugar, Antioxidant, Internal-detoxicant, Appetite-suppressant, Livotonic
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Red Wine Vinegar

Red Wine Vinegar has these Actions in Common
Lowers-blood-sugar, Antioxidant, Internal-detoxicant, Appetite-suppressant, Livotonic, Alterative, Diaphoretic
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Apple Cider Vinegar

Apple Cider Vinegar has these Actions in Common
Antioxidant, Internal-detoxicant, Appetite-suppressant, Livotonic, Alterative, Diaphoretic, Lowers-blood-sugar
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Strawberries

Strawberries has these Actions in Common
Anti-inflammatory, Livotonic, Antioxidant, Refreshing, Alterative, Kidney-tonic, Wakes-you-up
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Herbs & Supplements with a Similar Nature to Blueberry Mint Green Smoothie

Amalaki

Amalaki has these Actions in Common
Brain-tonic, Internal-detoxicant, Lowers-blood-sugar, Opthalmic, Alterative, Refreshing, Anti-inflammatory, Refrigerant, Antioxidant, Stimulates-energy, Blood-tonic, Wakes-you-up
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Breath of Fire / Shining Skull (Kapalbhati Pranayama)

Breath of Fire / Shining Skull (Kapalbhati Pranayama) has these Actions in Common
Stimulates-crown, Stimulates-energy, Stimulates-front-of-brain, Alterative, Wakes-you-up, Blood-tonic, Internal-detoxicant, Lowers-blood-sugar, Refreshing
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Bellows Breath (Bhastrika Pranayama)

Bellows Breath (Bhastrika Pranayama) has these Actions in Common
Refreshing, Stimulates-crown, Stimulates-energy, Stimulates-front-of-brain, Alterative, Wakes-you-up, Blood-tonic, Internal-detoxicant, Lowers-blood-sugar
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Punarnava

Punarnava has these Actions in Common
Antioxidant, Blood-tonic, Internal-detoxicant, Kidney-tonic, Lowers-blood-sugar, Stimulates-energy, Alterative, Stimulates-front-of-brain, Anti-inflammatory
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Holy Basil Leaf (Tulsi)

Holy Basil Leaf (Tulsi) has these Actions in Common
Internal-detoxicant, Lowers-blood-sugar, Refreshing, Stimulates-crown, Stimulates-energy, Anti-inflammatory, Stimulates-front-of-brain, Blood-tonic, Diaphoretic
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External Breath (Bahya Pranayama)

External Breath (Bahya Pranayama) has these Actions in Common
Stimulates-crown, Stimulates-energy, Stimulates-front-of-brain, Wakes-you-up, Alterative, Internal-detoxicant, Refreshing
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Breathing Exercises

Breathing Exercises has these Actions in Common
Blood-tonic, Internal-detoxicant, Lowers-blood-sugar, Refreshing, Stimulates-energy, Wakes-you-up, Alterative
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Yellow Dock

Yellow Dock has these Actions in Common
Alterative, Anti-inflammatory, Blood-tonic, Internal-detoxicant, Lowers-blood-sugar, Refrigerant
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Anantamul

Anantamul has these Actions in Common
Alterative, Blood-tonic, Brain-tonic, Diaphoretic, Internal-detoxicant, Kidney-tonic
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Guggulu

Guggulu has these Actions in Common
Alterative, Anti-inflammatory, Blood-tonic, Internal-detoxicant, Lowers-blood-sugar, Stimulates-energy
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Dandelion Root

Dandelion Root has these Actions in Common
Livotonic, Lowers-blood-sugar, Refrigerant, Alterative, Anti-inflammatory, Internal-detoxicant
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Comments & Impressions of 'Blueberry Mint Green Smoothie'

Do you like 'blueberry mint green smoothie'? Why or why not? What makes it unique? Is there something else you'd like to know about 'blueberry mint green smoothie'?

(5.00 out of 5 stars) 1 rating, 592 likes

David McKaig Swannanoa, NC

2014-05-14

“You can find fresh mint leaves in most stores or just grow it. Enjoy!"

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Riemke Enschede, MO

2015-05-17

“as there is no kale in my garden right now, I used dandelion leaves, which I think have the same cleansing and bitter quality. And also a few lemon balm leaves with the mint. The colour is not very appealing, but the taste is delicious. "

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