Many of our clients ask us exactly what ingredients and approach we use to make our delicious pedal blended fruit smoothies. Today we will give you an insight so you know how we work at events with our ingredients and also how you can apply the same techniques for perfect smoothies at home (with or without your own blending bike!).

The trick we employ is to use high quality frozen fruit (and sometimes vegetables) rather than fresh and blend straight from frozen it with apple juice as a base. The reasons for choosing good quality frozen fruit/veg over fresh are as follows;

1. The produce is always in perfect condition. It’s frozen at it’s best and stays in that state until you blend it so the taste is consistently good.
2. As it’s frozen at this optimum point the nutrients are also locked in so the health benefits are also maximised and consistent.
3. The combination of frozen produce and juice give a delicious thick smoothie which looks great.
4. The finished drink is ice cold without adding any ice! So no water diluting the flavour or the nutrients.
5. Finally the produce is already peeled, chopped and washed where appropriate, so no need for knives, chopping boards etc at the event, keeping operations simple and the speed of service high.

You can emulate this at home either by freezing your own fresh fruit at its best or buying frozen fruit in bags, large supermarkets carry a good range now and it means you always have your ingredients ready in your kitchen and minimise waste!

The only word of caution we have for doing this at home is that frozen fruit can be quite hard so a blender of reasonable quality is recommended.

Enjoy your delicious and nutritious ice cold smoothies (after all summer is just around the corner….well kind of)!

 

So why is a smoothie bike a good activity to have at a wellbeing event? Well they are a fantastic interactive tool to physically demonstrate and link healthy eating and exercise. Rather than just having somebody telling (lecturing or preaching could be inserted here!) your guests what they should be doing, a smoothie bike actively involves the individual in a fun way to physically use their own body to produce a healthy drink. It is not too strenuous and takes around a minute or so to complete so virtually anyone at any level of fitness can take part, and the people who can most be helped by this education are often those that are put off by taking part in activities as they feel they are too unfit. The smoothie bike is a great leveller, no lycra or training required, it is always fun and brings out the kid in most of us and the vast majority of people have a big smile on their face as they pedal blend. Don’t believe me? Just look at this lady using one of our bikes at a festival!

The range of drinks that can be produced on a smoothie bike is as big as your imagination. Are you promoting 5 a day within your organisation? Then a pure fruit or fruit and vegetable smoothie can be easily mixed up. Is your event on a very hot day? You can crush ice in the blender or use frozen ingredients to have a deliciously thick ice cold drink. Add herbs, nuts, seeds, milk or coconut oil to produce the most nutritionally balanced smoothie the world has ever tasted! It will all blend using your guests pedal power in minutes if not seconds!

Stuck for ideas on what to blend or worried whether a smoothie bike will be right for your event? Feel free to contact us and we will be happy to pass on our 5 years+ experience of pedal blending at events to see if we can help or not.