Fall Persimmon Ginger Smoothie

These tomato-looking, yellow-orange fruits can be seen in supermarkets in fall and early winter. I got a few persimmon fruits from a Thai family who sells home-grown produce in a flea market.

Recently, I had a friend bring me produce from them, and I look forward to getting my surprise and bargain produce every week. I have gotten unusual vegetables like bitter melon, bitter melon leaves, Malabar spinach, chives, jicama, buttercup squash, lemon grass, and many other unknown varieties of squash from them.

Persimmon Fruit Benefits

In the United States, we have two kinds of persimmon fruits - the round fuyu and elongated hachiyas. The ones I got are fuyus, and they can be eaten even when firm, as they are sweeter and not as tart as hachiyas. Preliminary research published in “Advances in Horticultural Science” in 2008 indicates that eating persimmons may help limit hardening of the arteries.

Persimmon is rich in vitamin A, C, and B vitamins. In the minerals department, it is densely packed with calcium, potassium, iron, manganese, phosphorus, and copper. You can add persimmon to salads, salsa, and cereal and come up with your own great recipes.

Persimmon Smoothie Recipe

The recipe is simple, with only four ingredients. A tiny piece of ginger adds warmth to this smoothie on a chilly fall morning.

I prefer to use vanilla powder instead of extract, but if you don’t have it, you can use extract or skip that ingredient.

Vanilla powder is pure, unadulterated vanilla bean and lends so much flavor to foods. Do you know that the ingredient vanillin in your packaged foods has nothing to do with the anti-inflammatory, stress-reducing properties of pure vanilla?

It is shocking to learn that almost 95% of “vanilla” products are not made with real vanilla.

Also, the FDA has approved the use of castoreum, a substance extracted from the anal glands of beavers, as a natural flavoring or vanilla flavoring.

Make sure to check the ingredients of your bottle of pure vanilla extract in your pantry for corn syrup. I like the brand of pure vanilla powder that is raw and organic.

A little goes a long way; you only have to add 1/2 tsp of vanilla powder whenever a recipe calls for 1 tsp vanilla extract.

Fall Persimmon Ginger Smoothie - Preparation

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Yield: 2 cups

Ingredients

• 2 Fuyu Persimmos - chopped
• 2 cups of water
• 1 Banana
• 1 tiny piece of ginger
• 1/2 tsp. vanilla powder

Instructions

Combine all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth.

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