The Grubbery

04/27/2014

Quick, nutritious dessert ... Almond Nut Balls, http://t.co/izdtsFlfNO, using The Grubbery's new app, SmoothieRx 2.0 http://t.co/jGwAyb2EKJ

Get Your Vitamins & Minerals from Food. Check vegetarian recipes using SmoothieRx 2.0 App for iPhone or iPad for their nutrient adequacy, based on your age, gender and activity level.

04/25/2014

We've just launched the latest version of SmoothieRx.

What's new?
- complete redesign of interface
- nutritional information is hidden for only those who are interested (click on the smoothie mugs to find out more)
- new splash screen
- new icon that reflects the app's function
- supporting Retina devices
- better overall performance
- bug fixes

Read more about it at http://www.thegrubbery.com/apps
and spread the word.

SmoothieRx is an app that assists you in creating smoothies with high nutrient content and low calories. The app graphs 18 nutrients by the percent of your daily need based on your gender and age for each smoothie. The app also establishes a baseline of the daily calories that you need to maintain…

04/22/2014

We have an exciting announcement about SmoothieRx coming this Friday (4/25/14). We will be releasing details throughout the week.

09/11/2013

We're listed as #85! We have an exciting update to announce soon about our relaunch of SmoothieRx in the coming weeks.

Ubiquitous technology has made it easier to track and manage our health than ever. A bevy of apps for all platforms promise to help the health conscious with meal planning, finding healthy restaurants, tracking calories consumed and burned, and setting reminders for exercise, sleep, and meals to max...

08/01/2013

Hark! There's a rebellion brewing in your gut. Feed those bacteria fiber and they will continue to contribute to good health.

Beyond the macronutrients, carbohydrates, fats, and proteins, are the micronutrients—vitamins and minerals—plus roughage. First Roughage. Roughage is the fiber, the filaments of cellulose, lignans and pectins in plants that resist the physical macerations and the chemical and enzymatic washes of dig...

06/27/2013

Seeds come in all shapes and sizes and are dispersed with all kinds of inventive mechanics: samaras of maples, duff of dandelions, succulent bead clusters of raspberries and blackberries, and barbed burrs of sticktights. The nutritional profile of seeds varie…

05/05/2013

Your parents told you about the birds and the bees, but they may have forgotten to mention the seeds. The s*x life of plants may not have seemed as necessary or compelling. Actually it’s way more kinky with its self-fertilization, mating with relatives, etc. But whatever the means, the result is ...

05/02/2013

Mark Bittman has a new monthly column at NYTimes called The Flexitarian . One of the recipes that he promotes is a Vanilla-Fruit Smoothie . Using our app SmoothieRx , we analyzed the nutrition of his smoothie (shared by 2). Bittman's Smoothie for 2 Here's an en...

04/02/2013

In the last article we took a classic to the home kitchen, Smoothie King’s Peanut Butter plus Grape, and tinkered with it, modifying it with a handful of greens to make it more nutritious. But this was only the beginning of what we could do to take something that was nutritionally solid and make it…

03/13/2013

Analyzed with our app SmoothieRx. This recipe is fantastic for meeting a lot of nutrients. To boost Vitamin A and C, we would add some greens like kale or spinach. Click to see the nutrition profile of this recipe.

03/12/2013

Smoothie King has come in for a spate of bad publicity lately because of its Peanut Butter Plus Grape. Being a smoothie lover, I decided to investigate. It seems that if we slurp down the 40-oz version (its largest), we have siphoned in five cups of liquid goo.