| Probably nothing says more about how popular | | | | - 60 grams Carbohydrates |
| smoothies have become than the fact that McDonalds | | | | - 3 grams Dietary Fiber |
| has now added two flavors of smoothies to their | | | | - 54 grams Sugars |
| menu. They offer "Wild Berry" which is a blend of | | | | - 2 grams Protein |
| strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, and some other | | | | - vitamins A and C |
| flavors and the always popular "Strawberry Banana". | | | | - minerals Calcium and Iron |
| The ingredients of these two new menu items are not | | | | The Wild Berry Smoothie has much the same |
| as bad as you might suppose, but they are very | | | | nutritional information. Again complete nutritional |
| typical of modern food produced on an industrial scale. | | | | information can be found at |
| The "Wild Berry" flavor is concocted with: "strawberry | | | | McDonalds is to be commended for adding these two |
| puree, water, sugar, blackberry puree, blueberry puree, | | | | fruit smoothie items to their menu with such a |
| concentrated pineapple juice, concentrated apple juice". | | | | reasonable nutritional make up. When compared with |
| Complete ingredient information can be found at The | | | | other items on the McDonalds menu, these smoothies |
| "strawberry banana blend is much the same but uses | | | | stand out as beacons of restraint. |
| banana puree instead of blueberry and blackberry. | | | | The other benefit to these smoothies being offered is |
| And it leaves out the pineapple and apple juice as well. | | | | that it will increase the popularity of smoothies overall. |
| Nutritionally, neither of these smoothies is too bad. For | | | | More and more people will become interested in fruit |
| the Strawberry Banana flavor a 16 fluid ounce cup | | | | smoothie recipes as a very healthy food choice and |
| (medium) the information is: | | | | begin to make them at home as snacks and desserts |
| - 260 calories | | | | instead of eating higher calorie choices like sweets and |
| - 1 gram of Fat | | | | junk food. There are many places to find smoothie |
| - No saturated or Trans fat | | | | recipes and you might well be surprised at how many |
| - 5 milligrams cholesterol | | | | different possibilities there are to make a very tasty |
| - 40 milligrams sodium | | | | smoothie with a huge variety of ingredients. |