Review Dr. Oz’s Green Drink

Dr. Oz has been a regular guest on the show by now and though I don’t really like the guy (he’s a bit clinical), I really love his advice and explanations. So, being inspired by the show I eventually bought all the ingredients and made Dr. Oz’s Green Drink!

It has to grow on you, but boy did this drink surprise me! Daan told me I’d hate it and I’m a very picky eater (I don’t like a lot of vegetables), so I was terribly discouraged to even try it out. But I was persistent and made it for the first time last week and it was yummy in a weird vegetable-kind of way. I will tell you bout how I made the drink and what I thought of it, you can find the original recipe here.

My first attempt
Ingredients:
spinach (frozen)
½ Cucumber
celery, lots of those leaves and a few of the stems
a bit of ginger root powder
a bit of parsley herbs
2 apples
juice of 1 lime
juice of ½ citron
1 banana

First I put the spinach in the microwave to defrost it and I cut up all the vegetables. I made two bowls: one with the soft ingredients and one with the hard ones. Then I blended the soft vegetables with the juice and after that I added the hard ingredients gradually. I did this, because I read somewhere that it was hard to make it into a smooth drink. But, with my super cheap blender that I bought at the Aldi for almost nothing, I made a very smooth and nice drink! It’s a bit of a thick drink, but I liked that and it had a very nice unique (but reasonably yummy) taste.

My second attempt
A few days after that I made it a second time. This time I used the following ingredients:

spinach (fresh this time, two big hands full)
fresh celery (only one stem and no leaves)
broccoli (half a head)
common beans (a big hand full)
fresh parsley (half a bush)
a bit of ginger root powder
2 apples
juice of 1 citron
juice of 1 orange

This time it was even nicer than before! I really started to get the hang of it. It tasted really fresh, like Oprah had said in her show. It was still thick (but fluid, it wasn’t like I had to chew on anything) and it’s great as a snack. I can’t drink this in the morning, I can only eat certain foods (bread mostly) in the morning.

Tips!
Some tips for people who want to try this themselves:

1. Experiment
Don’t be afraid to change the original recipe. Everyone’s taste is different and you should definitely use the vegetables and fruits that you like.

2. Use fresh ingredients
The first time I used frozen spinach and parsley herbs instead of fresh parsley. It really makes a difference when you use fresh ingredients. I was still too scared to use a real ginger root, cause I know they have a unique taste and I think I wouldn’t have liked that much.

3. Don’t use the banana
Unless you’re a banana-fan or a monkey, don’t use banana! It totally covers up all the different tastes that this lovely drink offers. Bananas have a very dominating flavour. Try to use different fruits. Apples are great, the orange juice (fresh ofc) works great too.

I’m not drinking the Green Drink at the moment, but it has made me passionate about these vegetable drinks. I want to try out more of them and in the future I will try more of them! I don’t drink them in the morning, I drink them with my lunch. Since I don’t love the drink, but since it’s nice and drinkable, my verdict of Dr. Oz’s Green Drink is 7.5.

Reported by Judith Dormans http://judithdormans.wordpress.com/