Tasty Bites: Mango Banana Smoothie: Fuel and Refuel

By Candy, RN (Steele the Day)

After exercise, it’s important to refuel your body with healthy protein and energy. The smoothie is one of my favorites as it is refreshing, cold, and you can prepare the ingredients ahead, put the blender in the fridge and blend it up when you get home. This combination of fruit, milk and yogurt packs a healthy supply of Vitamin C and the banana provides replenishment of potassium lost during exercise.

Mango Banana Smoothie

1 ripe mango, cut in chunks

8 ounces non-fat vanilla yogurt

1 banana, cut in chunks

½ cup  Skim Milk

1 handful ice

Put all ingredients in blender or food processor and blend until smooth.

Candy Steele is a registered nurse who has worked with cardiac patients for over thirty years. “Functional foods” have become her passion, and she enjoys sharing her love of cooking, a random life and a faithful Jesus with her friends at Steele (the Day). She is blessed with three grown children, a new daughter-in-law, and a kind and patient husband who only knows how to fix popcorn (but she’s OK with that).

Comments

[Beth E.]

Sounds delicious to me! We don't get many mangos 'round here in the Appalachian mountains, though. What would be a good substitute?

[Candy]

Any fruit will do, Beth. Berries (strawberries are great right now) or peaches taste great. Just use a cup to a cup & a half.