Of all smoothies I’ve tried, this combo is one of the tastiest. Sure, part of it has to do with the fact that vanilla soy milk by itself tastes wonderful. But it also has to do with the fact that mint goes well with raspberries. The smoothie is tasty without the mint as well, but the mint truly makes it special, and mint goes so well with cocoa! Remember After Eights? A touch of that goes into this drink as well.
This smoothie combo is great because it combines many flavorful elements, and you can tell all those flavors apart as you drink it, which makes it stand out among other smoothies. It’s also packed with nutrients, and you can drink two servings as a light meal replacement. It contains carbs, fats, protein, and lots of vitamins, minerals, and lots of super healthy phytonutrients.
What's Your Favorite Raspberry Dessert?
Thanks, Frank. I'll ask at Botanical Gardens, too. And, good idea, I'll inquire online about specialist markets.
Good,there may be specialist markets that sell all these berries. However, beware, I once grew a hybrid berry known as Worcesterberry, which is a gooseberry-blackcurrant cross, but the spines on these berries were worse than those on gooseberries. I dug them up as they were too spiky to handle,so don't try picking your own!. However, you would like jostaberries, which are tasty.
Thank you, Frank! The natural world is ever more fascinating to me. I never even heard of the names of these berries in Romanian, so I wasn't aware of all this diversity. Not too much diversity at farmer's markets either. I would absolutely love to be able to taste all these hybrid berries you mention. Next time I travel abroad during the summer or autumn I'll seek out food markets. I've been to two great ones in Barcelona and Madrid and discovered new varieties of fruit. I'll keep an eye open for berries next time.
There are Summer and Autumn fruiting raspberries, which each require different kinds of treatment by gardeners. But raspberries belong to the genus Rubus, which is an incredibly large genus of plants. Within Rubus there are blackberries [2000 microspecies in Britain alone] dewberries and raspberries. There are different species of raspberry.
Then there are the hybrid berries. Where raspberry is involved, there are loganberries, Tayberries and boysenberries. Loganberries and Tayberries are blackberry-raspberry crosses that differ in the particular species of raspberry and blackberry chosen. Boysenberries are a cross between a European raspberry,a common blackberry, an American dewberry and a loganberry. You can achieve a complex cross like this because Rubus plants possess polyploidy, the ability of some plants to have multiple chromosomes, which animals do not have.
I grow raspberries and once grew loganberries, which can run out of control with one stem growing much longer than the others. My tayberries failed for some unknown reason and I have not tried them since.
You probably have seen several varieties of raspberry, but they taste very much the same as each other,so you did not spot the difference. It takes a specialist to identify the different species and varieties.
Thank you :)
Pics are mouth watering. It sounds so yummy, Tweeting . . .
Thank you, janices7! This raspberry is one of the joys of summer for me.
Looks delicious! I love raspberries and smoothies are a great, nutritious breakfast option that I utilize often.
Shraddha: I don't use strawberries much myself. I'll have to see how they go with the mint. Thank you for stopping by, Shraddha!
:) Thank you, Tolovaj! This raspberry smoothie really is good :)