Nowadays smoothies are everywhere and the smoothie phenomenon is the next big thing in the food industry: Even Burger King has a “Real Fruit” smoothie line!! So the question is are all smoothies healthy? Let’s take a closer look at Burger King’s Strawberry Banana “Real Fruit Smoothie”. It contains sugar syrup, natural flavors (???) , Xanthan Gum, Pectin, Guar Gum and CMC Gum. If you want real fruit healthy smoothie it should only contain the healthy materials that you expect to see in a smoothie. So the next time, make your smoothie at home and enjoy the real health benefits of the ingredients. To make smoothies, you don’t need fancy ingredients or a fancy blender. Just start from the ingredients you have at home and follow these amazing infographic. As an old friend once said: “Do what you can with what you have to get started. Just get started!”