Vita-Mix Turbo Blend 4500

The blender to end all blenders! 2+ Peak horsepower, commercial quality capabilities. High and low switch, speeds up to 218 miles per hour!

64 oz. Polycarbonate container, and recipe guide/manual included

5-Year warranty for home use, made in USA and built to last!

Great for Raw Foodists!

Great for purees, sauces, soups, salad dressings, dips, smoothies, baby foods, and much more. Read below for an awesome recipe list for Green Smoothies! Vita Mix is one of the fastest, easiest, most powerful blenders ever created for home use. Blends and chops quicker and smoother than any other blender or food processor you have ever used. No chunks, no separation, no graininess, just the best smoothies imaginable. Amazingly can chop 6 cups of ice cubes in just a few seconds! This is the personal, no-nonsense, hard working, "kitchen employee" you need.

-All stainless steel enclosed blade assembly with sealed ball bearings. Metal to metal driver contact.
-Patented design pulls ingredients into the blades for maximum chopping efficiency.
-Blends as little as 4 oz. with the same consistency and quality as a 64 oz. load.
-Thermally protected motor prevents motor burnout.
-5 year warranty handled through the manufacturer.
-120 Volts 50/60 hz 11.5 amps
-7 1/4" x 8 3/4" D x 20" H, 14 pounds.
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Ode to Green Smoothie by Victoria Boutenko

As the Russian Proverb says: New-is something old that has been long forgotten. This summer I re-discovered green smoothies. What do I mean by green smoothie? Here is one of my favorite recipes: 4 ripe pears, 1 bunch of parsley, and 1 big cup of water. Blend well. This smoothie looks green, but it tastes like fruit. I like green smoothies so much that I bought an extra Vita Mix blender and placed it in my office, so that I could make green smoothies throughout the day. More than half of all the food I’ve had in the last several months have been green smoothies. I have so much more energy and clarity that I have removed green juices from my diet. (Juicing has been something that I’ve been doing regularly for many years.) Green smoothies have numerous benefits for human health.

1. Green smoothies are very nutritious. I believe that the ratio in them is optimal for human consumption: about 60%-ripe organic fruit mixed with about 40% organic green vegetables.

2. Green smoothies are easy to digest. When blended well, all the valuable nutrients in these fruits and veggies become homogenized, or divided into such small particles that it becomes easy for the body to assimilate these nutrients, the green smoothies literally start to get absorbed in your mouth.

3. Green smoothies, as opposed to juices, are a complete food because they still contain fiber.

4. Green smoothies belong to the most palatable dishes for all humans of all ages. With a ratio of fruits to veggies as 60:40 the fruit taste dominates the flavor, yet at the same time the green vegetables balance out the sweetness of the fruit, adding nice zest to it. Green smoothies are simply the best tasting raw dishes for the majority of adults and children. I always make extra smoothie and offer it to my friends and customers. Some of them eat a standard American diet. They all finished their big cup of green smoothies with compliments. They were quite surprised that something so green could taste so nice and sweet. 5. By consuming two to three cups of the green smoothies daily you will consume enough greens for the day to nourish your body, and they will be well assimilated. Many people do not consume enough of greens and fiber (even those who stay on a raw food diet). The molecule of chlorophyll has only one atom that makes it different from a molecule of human blood. According to teachings of Dr. Ann Wigmore, to consume Chlorophyll is like receiving a healthy blood transfusion.

6. Green smoothies are easy to make, and quick to clean up after. Many people told me that they do not consume green juices on a regular basis because it is time consuming to prepare green juices and to clean the equipment after juicing, or to drive to the juice bar.

7. Green smoothies are perfect food for children of all ages, including babies of six or more months old when introducing new food to them after mother’s milk. Of course you have to be careful and slowly increase the amount of smoothies to avoid food allergies.

8. When you consume your greens in the form of green smoothies, you can greatly reduce the consumption of oils and salt in your diet.

9. Regular Consumption of Green smoothies forms a good habit of eating greens. Several people told me that after a couple of weeks of drinking green smoothies, they started to crave and enjoy eating more greens. Eating enough of green vegetable is often a problem with many people, especially in children.

10. Green smoothies can easily be freshly made at any juice bar, restaurant or health food store for the great convenience of health-oriented customers.

I encourage the readers of this article to start playing with green smoothies, and to discover the many joys and benefits of this wonderful delicious and nutritious addition to the menu.
Here are more ideas for your green concoctions.

Some of my favorite greens to add to green smoothies: Parsley, spinach, celery, kale and romaine. My favorite fruits for green smoothies are: pears, peaches, nectarines, bananas, mangoes and apples. Strawberries and raspberries taste superb in green smoothies, when combined with ripe bananas.

Delicious combinations

Mango-Parsley
2 Large Mangoes
1 Bunch Parsley
Water

Peach-Spinach
6 Peaches
2 Handfuls of Spinach Leaves
Water

Mango-Weeds
2 Mangoes
1 Handful of lambs quarters,
stinging nettles, purslane, etc.
Water
Pear-kale-mint
4 ripe pears
4-5 leaves of kale
½ bunch of mint
Water

Finger Banana-Spinach
10 Finger-bananas
2 handfuls of spinach leaves
Water

Strawberry-Bannana-Romaine
1-cup strawberries
2 bananas
½ bunch Romaine
Water

Apple-kale-lemon
4 apples
½ lemon juice
4-5 leaves of kale
Water

Kiwi-Bananna-Celery
4 very ripe kiwis
1 ripe Banana
3 stalks of celery
Water

Bosc Pear-Raspberry-Kale
3 bosc pears
1 handful of raspberries
4-5 leaves of kale
Water.