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1. Peel banana. For best results, juice kale in a vegetable juicer. This will be easier to digest. Otherwise, chop the kale.
2. Blend all ingredients until creamy in a blender. Serve chilled or room temperature garnished with a pineapple slice.
How Does This Ayurvedic Recipe Improve Wellness?
CLINICAL AYURVEDIC REVIEW
Creamy banana combines with tangy pineapple in this smoothie, creating an ideal refreshment on a hot summer afternoon. Kale adds a bit of bitter green, which helps cool the blood and soothe your mind on hot and muggy summer days. Serve this delightful drink in cocktail glasses with a wedge of pineapple along the rim at your next summer pool party or BBQ. It is sure to be a success!
Replenish Your Body
There is no doubt that the summer sun zaps your energy. Too much heat and humidity makes the body sweat, which can drain your electrolytes and lead you to feel tired, low-energy, and depleted. If you are feeling a little sluggish, the natural sugars of both pineapple and banana in this smoothie will restore your energy levels & replenish your strength. Coconut water is also excellent for restoring electrolyte balance.
Summer Digestion
The heat of summertime brings fun and adventure, but also challenges your digestion. The heat exhausts your blood, and weakens digestion with it, because all of the blood in your body is moving to the surface of your skin to cool you down. With its creamy, moist, and soft texture, bananas have long been recommended to soothe intestinal irritation in summer. The creaminess coats your gut, having an anti-acid and soothing effect on your stomach. Bananas are heavier and harder to digest than most other ripe fruits. Pineapple also comes to the rescue as a natural digestive aid. Note that mixing fruits with kale is technically a bad food combination. Blending makes this combination more digestible.
Cool Down with Kale
Kale is one of our favorite greens for high Pitta and Kapha. It's bright green color adds revitalizing chlorophyll to your diet. Unlike spinach which is hot in nature, Kale cools down your boiling blood because of bitter taste. Bitter taste drains the liver and blood of hot fiery bile, cooling down a hot summer temper. Coconut water can also cool down a hot summer temper! A smoothie is a great way to add kale into your diet if the taste alone feels unpalatable to you, because the natural sweetness of the banana and pineapple overpowers and "hides" any bitterness from the kale. Sweet smoothies with kale can be a great way to get resistant kids to add a little bit more greens in their diet!
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 Pineapple & Banana Kale Smoothie Good for My Ayurvedic Diet?
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You'll learn your body type, and whether 'Pineapple & Banana Kale Smoothie' is a good fit.
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Functional Ayurveda helps you assess imbalances through 20 main biocharacteristics
(gunas).
Aggravating these characteristics weakens your body and causes imbalance.
By knowing which characteristics are habitually imbalanced in your body, you will be able to identify and correct imbalances before you get sick.
Every characteristic has an opposite which balances it (i.e. hot balances cold).
You restore balance by favoring diet and lifestyle choices that increase the opposite characteristic.
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?
According to the biocharacteristic theory of medicine,
people tend to get sick, over and over again, due to habitual causes and imbalances that are unique to the person.
Your body type summarizes this tendency, showing you the 'type' of conditions and imbalances that frequently challenge your health & wellness.
Using body type, you can also identify remedies likely to improve your strength and resiliency.
Your body type identifies physical and mental characteristics as well as your personal strengths and weaknesses.
The calculation of your body type is based on your medical history.
The 3 functional body types
(doshas),
are Catabolic (Vata), Metabolic (Pitta), and Anabolic (Kapha).
Catabolic individuals tend to break down body mass into energy. They are easily stimulated, hyperactive, underweight and dry.
Metabolic individuals tend to burn or use energy. They tend to be rosy-cheeked, easily irritated, focused, driven, and easily inflamed.
Anabolic individuals tend to store energy as body mass. If they store too much energy, they could gain weight easily and have congestion. Anabolic people tend to be stable and grounded.
Medicinal Benefits, Uses & Herbal Actions of Pineapple & Banana Kale 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.
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.
Cholagogues stimulate the production & release of bile from the liver & gallbladder. This refreshes and cleanses these organs, as well as increases bile in the small intestines.
John Immel, the founder of Joyful Belly, teaches people how to have a
healthy diet and lifestyle with Ayurveda biocharacteristics.
His approach to Ayurveda is clinical, yet exudes an ease which many find enjoyable and insightful.
John also directs Joyful Belly's School of Ayurveda,
offering professional clinical training in Ayurveda for over 15 years.
John's interest in Ayurveda and specialization in digestive tract pathology was inspired by a complex digestive disorder acquired from years of international travel,
as well as public service work in South Asia.
John's commitment to the detailed study of digestive disorders reflects his zeal to get down to the roots of the problem.
His hope and belief in the capacity of each & every client to improve their quality of life is nothing short of a personal passion.
John's creativity in the kitchen and delight in cooking for others comes from his family oriented upbringing.
In addition to his certification in Ayurveda, John holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Harvard University.
John enjoys sharing Ayurveda within the context of his Catholic roots,
and finds Ayurveda gives him an opportunity to participate in the healing mission of the Church.
Jesus expressed God's love by feeding and healing the sick.
That kindness is the fundamental ministry of Ayurveda as well.
Outside of work, John enjoys spending time with his wife and 6 kids, and pursuing his love of theology, philosophy, and language.
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Kale is light and cold, so it may be alright for the winter months if it is well cooked to warm it up and if enough oil is added to make it a bit heavier.
From our understanding, some raw greens are ok for most people in moderation, unless the person has a hypothyroid condition (in which case the goitrogens in raw kale suppress the thyroid more, which is not good). Of course, kale should in general be consumed cooked because raw foods are seldom advised in Ayurveda. But, a little bit in a smoothie should be fine for most people, with the exception of hypothyroid conditions.
I made this today, mine is green in colour though, perhaps I added more kale; however, it tasted good. I then added half an avocado and .. wow! gorgeous! I can't wait to try more smoothy/juice/drink recipes, as at present I can't eat food (dental surgery). Thank you!
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