I read this and The Green Smoothie Bible at about the same time, and I prefer the other book. They cover all the same information and in fact look similar - about the same size, similar covers, but Boutenko's style is a bit over the top, and she doesn't favor additives like blue-green algae and phytoplankton and such, while Kristine Miles does.There's nothing wrong with this book, but I would opt for the other one. I *love* my green smoothies. I drink one every morning. I have become convinced through my own experience that they are a great and tasty method for adding dark leafy greens to my diet. (And dark leafy greens are definitely nutritionally hardcore)...But this book is full of really weird pseudo-science. There's this giant leap from the health benefits of adding greens to the diet, which I think is pretty much universally good advice, to eating a 100% raw diet which has a *lot* less evidence to support it. Also a lot of slamming of the "Standard American Diet" as if the only two options are a raw diet, or a processed-food-heavy fast-food-reliant diet. I am always suspicious of any argument that presents things in such binary terms.For me, a raw food diet is completely uninteresting. I am in excellent health eating cooked food. I even eat meat! But I love green smoothies as a way to increase my vegetable intake, and incorporate 3-5 cups of dark greens a day. I really didn't find much in this book that was useful: The introductory parts were either common sense, or scientifically questionable - and the recipes were nothing I hadn't figured out experimenting with my own blender.
What do You think about Grüne Smoothies: Lecker, Gesund & Schnell Zubereitet (2010)?
Great info. All you need to know on the topic to get started.
—BeMyChatterbox
This is a good resource for recipes, but not much else.
—dianaisho
I am so glad this life-changing book came my way!!!!
—mag25
