11/10/2019
A smoothie is a mixture of fruits or vegetables pureed in a blender with water,sweeteners or ice. Dairy products like milk, yogurt, low fat, cheese are added. Sweeteners are like sugar, syrup and honey. Other smoothies you get herbal or nutritional supplements. Smoothies have thick textures that was invented on June 23, 1940 by Mabel Stegner. Mabel who was working in Waring Corporation published a recipe book called ‘Recipes to make your Waring –Go-Round’ and it described 12 milk smoothies. Those with blenders at that time were the ones making smoothies, In the late 1960’s ,blenders were popular in the US. Smoothies became even more popular in the 1990’s and 2000’s by being sold at coffee shops. Health smoothies were first invented by Steve Kuhnau who was experimenting on his health and it worked for him.