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Boost your Brekkie: 8 Awesome Smoothie Bowl Toppings
What is a Smoothie Bowl?
Similar to an acai bowl, a smoothie bowl is a thicker, spoonable version of a regular smoothie. It is usually made with frozen fruits and vegetables, along with some liquid such as milk or juice. Served in a bowl, this thick, ice-cold base is the starting point for any number of toppings that not only boost the nutrient content but add contrasting tastes and textures.
Not only are they visually appealing and Insta-worthy, but smoothie bowls also offer a convenient way to maximise your nutritional intake at the start of the day. Or any time of day really.
So now that is out of the way, the next obvious question involves toppings for your smoothie bowls.
Our Favourite Toppings for Smoothie Bowls
Toppings add taste and texture to your smoothie bowl, as well as that all-important nutrient boost. You can pretty much put anything on there but here are a few of our favourites that are as nutritious as they are delicious.
Topping 1: Fruit Powder
Fruit powder is a game changer when it comes to smoothie bowl toppings. Made by simply dehydrating fruits and grinding them into a fine powder, it packs all the flavour of fresh fruit, but in a storage-friendly form. From tangy berries to tropical mango, fruit powder not only adds a vibrant color to your smoothie bowl, but also a concentrated punch of vitamins, antioxidants, and natural sweetness.
Try our range our fruit powders
Topping 2: Chia Seeds
Chia seeds are tiny nutrition bombs that make a great topping for your smoothie bowl. Despite their small size, they’re packed with dietary fibre, protein, and a load of essential minerals. Not only do they add a satisfying crunch to your bowl, but when soaked in liquid (like milk or yogurt), they form a gel-like consistency for an extra creamy texture. Try using both for an interesting contrast.
Our black chia seeds are organic
Topping 3: Black Sesame
Black sesame seeds are the grown-up sophisticated cousin of your standard white sesame seeds. They have a slightly different flavour profile, with a nutty and slightly bitter taste. They also contain a higher level of antioxidants and essential fatty acids. Plus, the colour is great and can be used to striking effect. Think two-tone, rather than a riot of colour.
These black sesame seeds will boost your bowl
Topping 4: Cacao Nibs
Cacao nibs are the perfect topping for those who want to indulge their chocolate cravings more healthily. Essentially they are pieces of cacao beans that have been roasted, separated from their husks, and broken into smaller bits. They taste like dark chocolate but with a raw, more intense flavour and a satisfyingly crunchy texture. Cacao nibs are loaded with fibre, protein, and beneficial compounds like flavonoids.
Try these organic cacao nibs for an antioxidant boost
Topping 5: Dried Fruit
Dried fruit offers yet another textural contrast, bringing an almost candy-like chew. With all the sharp sweetness of fruit, in a concentrated flavour, they are also a longer-lasting store-cupboard-friendly option. As much as we love raisins, we are thinking along the more interesting lines of sharp sour cherries or tangy blueberries.
Try these organic dried cherries
Topping 6: Hemp Seeds
Hemp seeds aren’t about to win the pretty prize, but what they lack in insta-friendly colour they make up for in nutritional heft. They are a powerhouse of proteins and healthy fats, including omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids, and they also serve as a rich source of dietary fibre and essential vitamins and minerals.
Our organic hemp seeds are hulled for better nutrient release
Topping 7: Pumpkin Seeds
Pumpkin seeds, also known as pepitas, bring a delightful crunch to your smoothie bowl. These tiny seeds are packed with protein, fibre, and a variety of essential minerals such as magnesium, iron, and zinc. They have a subtly sweet and nutty flavour, which pairs well with virtually any combination of smoothie bowl ingredients. Beyond their taste and nutritional benefits, their vibrant green colour will brighten your bowl, for an aesthetically pleasing and incredibly healthy topping.
Try these special variety Styrian hull-less pumpkin seeds for an easier eat
Topping 8: Bee Pollen
Bee pollen is a fantastic addition to your arsenal of smoothie bowl toppings. This natural byproduct of the beekeeping process is nutrient-rich, and filled with proteins, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. It has a mildly sweet yet floral taste that compliments a variety of fruits and other toppings. Prized for its potential health benefits, bee pollen may help to boost immunity and reduce inflammation. But remember, a little goes a long way; just a sprinkle of these golden granules is enough to give your smoothie bowl a nutritional and flavorful boost.
Our great-tasting raw Australian bee pollen
Basic Healthy Smoothie Bowl Recipe
More of a template than an exact recipe, this will help you get to grips with the basics and also act as a blueprint for endless creations of your own.
- Choose Your Base: Start by selecting your base ingredients. This could be a selection of your favourite fruits, like bananas, frozen berries, or mangoes. You will need some kind of liquid to help it along, but not as much as a traditional smoothie.
- Blend: Add your base ingredients to a blender. Blend until you achieve a smooth, even consistency. The mixture should be thicker than a traditional smoothie, allowing it to hold up your toppings.
- Pour and Spread: Pour your smoothie mixture into a bowl and spread it out evenly.
- Garnish with Toppings: Now comes the fun part. Use an assortment of seeds, nuts, fruits, granola or even bee pollen. Try to include a range of colours and textures to make your bowl aesthetically pleasing.
- Serve Immediately: Smoothie bowls need to be enjoyed right away. Grab a spoon and dive in!
Smoothie Bowl Ideas
Tropical Bliss Mango Smoothie Bowl
Blitz a base of ripe banana, frozen pineapple, and mango powder and top with shredded coconut and chia seeds.
Black Sesame Smoothie Bowl
Start with a base of frozen bananas and a spoonful of black sesame seeds, blended to a creamy consistency. A dash of almond milk will make your base smoother and infuse a subtle nutty flavour. For the toppings, add a sprinkle of black and white sesame seeds and a drizzle of honey. Super simple and let that star ingredient shine.
Chocolate Lover’s Smoothie Bowl
Begin with a base of ripe banana and a heaping spoonful of nut butter. Add a dash of milk and 2 tablespoons of raw cacao powder and blend. Top with crunchy cacao nibs and a handful of fresh raspberries.
Berry Chia Smoothie Bowl
Make a base of blueberries and frozen banana with a splash of any milk. Top with a handful of granola, some more blueberries, and a generous sprinkle of chia seeds.
Cherry-Nut Smoothie Bowl
For the base, blend frozen banana, a handful of dried cherries, and a splash of milk. Top with a sprinkle of chopped almonds, a few more dried cherries, and a dollop of Greek yoghurt.
Detox Green Smoothie Bowl
For the base, blend a ripe banana, a chopped kiwi fruit, a handful of spinach leaves, a few kale leaves, and a splash of almond milk. Top with a generous amount of hemp seeds, and a few more slices of kiwi.
Autumn Pumpkin Smoothie Bowl
Start with a base of frozen bananas and a small pumpkin, peeled and cubed. Add a dash of almond milk for a smoother texture and blend until creamy. Stir in a spoonful of honey for a hint of natural sweetness. Sprinkle raw pumpkin seeds, a dollop of Greek yogurt, and a dash of cinnamon.
Bee Pollen Breakfast Smoothie Bowl
Make a base of frozen banana, oats and oat milk. Drizzle with honey, top with Greek yoghurt, and a good scatter of bee pollen.
We have seen that from chocolate lovers to detox enthusiasts, there’s a bowl for everyone. Experiment with ideas for bases and toppings, mix and match ingredients as per your liking, and you’ll discover that breakfast can indeed be the most exciting meal of the day. Remember, the key to great breakfast smoothie bowls is using high-quality, fresh ingredients and finishing them with your favourite toppings.
Our top tip for the perfect smoothie bowl? Allow your frozen fruit like banana or pineapple to defrost slightly before blending. This will make it easier to blitz, and save your blender motor!
Explore our full range of superfood ingredients for your smoothie bowl.
This article was reproduced on this site with permission from operafoods.com.au the “Smoothie Bowl Topping Wholesalers”.
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How to make the perfect frosted berry acai smoothie bowl in a personal blender
We have all seen a perfectly frosted gelato style acai smoothie bowl, with its ice cream swirls and candy colours. But unless you have a really powerful blender the reality can be quite different. A dreadful crunching noise. The smell of burning motor. By the time you tentatively crush down all the frozen bits, allowing the liquid time to do its work, you have…yay…a smoothie. One that you could drink with a very thin straw.
It is entirely possible to summon up beautifully frozen treats with a personal blender, and we are going to show you how. All it takes is a little forward planning.
To make your frosted berry acai smoothie bowl you will need…
1 large banana worth of frozen banana chunks 4 average size coconut milk ice cubes, made from thick tinned coconut milk 1 cup frozen berries, mostly large ones like strawberries 1 tbsp acai powder 1 tbsp whey concentrate protein powder 1 tsp vanilla To garnish - Frozen berries Coconut flakes Granola Date syrup
How much time will I need?
Depending on the heat in your kitchen, you will need about 20 to 30 minutes waiting time to semi defrost your fruit and coconut ice cubes. Once that is done, it takes a few minutes to blend your acai smoothie bowl.
Step by step recipe for frosted berry acai smoothie bowl
Step 1 – semi-defrost
The crucial stage of getting a good texture in your smoothie bowl base is the partial defrosting of the ingredients. Leave the ingredients out to defrost slightly for about 20 to 30 minutes. If your kitchen is hot, they may need less time. You are looking to just take the edge off the hardness so that your personal blender can cope.
If you put the bowl into the freezer it will keep your frosted smoothie colder for longer.
1 large banana, frozen
4 coconut milk ice cubes
frozen berries
Step 2 – begin blitzing the ingredients
The coconut ice cubes are blended down first as they are harder than all the other ingredients. The whey concentrate and the acai powder add not only nutrients but help with the texture too.
Add the powders and blitz to a fine snow.
Step 3 – add the semi-frozen fruits
Add the semi-frozen fruits to the blender and pulse until the smooth. The combination of the ice and the powders, plus the softened fruits, helps the blender to cope without the ingredients melting down. Notice that we are not adding any liquid at all.
Step 4 – garnish
Add a little granola for crunch
some creamy coconut flakes
beautiful frozen berries
A drizzle of date syrup for extra sweetness.
Eat and enjoy. We hope you have fun experimenting with flavours and textures. Don’t forget to visit our bulk buy store for all your acai bowl ingredients.
Organic Acai Powder – A Magnificent Concentrated Natural Food Supplement
Organic Acai Powder by Amazon Power, available from Boost Nutrients is 100% pure acai fruit freeze dried. Organic Acai Powder truely is a magnificent concentrated natural food supplement. The perfect way to boost your nutrients with an easy healthy breakfast.
It is termed as an antioxidant power house and it contains no preservatives. Amazon’s Organic Acai Powder is ideal for a home made acai bowl or granola bowl topping and for smoothies and juices.
This Organic Acai Powder 250g is a magnificent concentrated natural food supplement. Our high quality Organic Acai Powder helps to develop immune system of individuals and will increase your energy. It is rich in protein, fiber, carbohydrates, minerals and vitamins.
Opera Foods delivers Organic Acai Powder to Consumers Direct and to retailers in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne overnight along with our Boost Nutrient brand products. Boost Nutrients also provides consumers directly from our online store.
Visit our online organic store for more information. Book your favorite product now and get online discounts on this and many other products.
Natural Goji Berry Powder Riches in Fiber and Protein
Boost Nutrients produce great ingredients for smoothie, acai bowl toppings, fruit and vegetable powder and natural goji berry powder is very popular among those that taste superior and fine foods.
Boost Nutrients, a division of Opera Foods are health ingredient distributors of Australia. They provide products for gourmet grocery as well as organic food in Sydney, Brisbane as well as Newcastle. With the help of natural goji berry powder, healthy smoothies can be made for breakfast and also it can be used for toppings for acai bowl or granola bowl.
Goji berries have been utilized as a kind of medicine herb in China for many decades. It is usually given with tea and many others in China. The Chinese medicine was believed on perceived results without any scientific analysis as well as information. According to the researches of modern science, goji berries possess distinctive level of respective anti-oxidants namely Lycium barbarum polysaccharides that help to increase an immune system of an individual.
Goji berries are rich in protein and moreover these super berries contain significant amount of amino acids that is higher than other berries.
Natural goji berry powder is rich in protein, fats, carbohydrates, sugars, sodium that aids to prevent against illness. It is also gluten free as well as allergen free. Natural Goji berry powder contains certain health benefits including improves healthy skin, lowers blood sugar, and reduces anxiety.
Spinach Vegetable Powder Prevents Oxidative Stress and Blood Pressure
Boost Nutrients produce multi-varied items such as vegetable powder, fruit powder and several kinds of smoothie recipes. Boost Nutrients is basically an Aussie brand which consumes mainly garden-fresh raw ingredients, from Australia where possible, and it also consumes high-quality ingredients from respective overseas suppliers. The main goal of Boost Nutrients is to provide healthy energy drinks and meal toppings and to ease the respective process of producing smoothies.
Spinach vegetable powder is one of the vegetable powders that help to prevent blood pressure, cancer, and several other severe diseases. Spinach vegetable powder is rich in phytonutrients, antioxidants, flavonoids as well as carotenoids. It is produced by the process of drying whole spinach leaf pulp. Spinach powder is green in color and it has a mild flavor of spinach. Using this powder, people can make smoothies and juices of spinach. Moreover, it can be used in soups, salad dressings as well as savory dishes.
Nutrition Pills! Why eat all those capsule cases?
There seems to be a new fad in eating nutrients in the form of nutrition pill capsules. I am not just talking about supplements that are made up multiple concoctions and mixes with interesting health claims. I am talking about simple ingredient products like fruit or vegetable powders. The internet has multiple actors pushing them. Probably as commission agents.
Their pitch asks us to blindly assume that the convenience of a pill is the only thing. Whereas these days you can buy powdered fruit and vegetable products in separate re-sealable packs and have them conveniently stored in your pantry. They are cheaper than the pills (less processing and packaging). You can see what you are eating. You still enjoy the convenience of not carrying and chopping raw vegetables. Yet you also have the added convenience of being able to sprinkle them on to any meal or to make your own, better tasting, smoothie variations, in just seconds.
Why ingest organic wholefoods for nutritional purposes in an artificial pill capsule?
Pill capsules were originally designed for ingesting nasty tasting chemical medicants that are hard to swallow, because they are objectionable to your taste buds. The ingredients for a pill capsule case itself is not something you would choose for nutritional purposes.
You may get to eat many pill capsule cases as you age and need to take medicants. So, don’t choose to eat those, when you can simply eat the natural fruit and vegetable powders on their own with no inconvenience or downside.
According to wikipedia.org, pill capsule cases are “made from aqueous solutions of gelling agents, such as animal protein (mainly gelatin) or plant polysaccharides or their derivatives (such as carrageenans and modified forms of starch and cellulose). Other ingredients can be added to the gelling agent solution including plasticizers such as glycerin or sorbitol to decrease the capsule’s hardness, coloring agents, preservatives, disintegrants, lubricants and surface treatment.”
Are Nutrition Pills Really Healthy?
The contents of the pill capsule cases might be healthy? Depending upon what is actually in them. However, the ingredients for the capsule casing itself is not something you would choose for nutritional purposes.
Many people looking to boost their nutrient intake are also focused on plant nutrition. Even if they are not Vegans vegetarians would not deliberately choose a product that is encased in an animal protein product. The other ingredients of these capsule cases are not typical high nutritional value foods. Another good question might be, what kind of ingredients are added to the contents of the pill to give it the viscosity required to make the product flow, so it can be easily packed by machines into the tiny capsules.
Know What You are Eating
Seeing what you are eating is another important issue with nutrition. The science of Powdered Fruit and vegetables has moved on to a process of slow drying of a puree. This naturally preserves the colours and nutrients of fruits and vegetables better. Some of the manufacturers are now using this method which produces much higher nutrient value in powdered products. Visual inspection will show users the consistency in granule size and colour that helps to show the quality of the product.
Why are you eating Nutritional Supplements in the first place?
People eat nutritional supplements for several reasons including to combat health problems, to guard against potential health problems, for body building and weight control, and some just to improve energy levels. Whatever your reason, continual consumption of pill capsule casings is probably not your intended goal.
Environmental hazards, artificial ingredients and pesticide levels are being blamed for the development of free radicals in your system that can cause serious health conditions as well as a slowdown of your general feeling of well-being. The modern approach to this problem is to change your diet to exclude the products most likely to be detrimental to your health and suppress your immune system. Also, at the same time to increase your intake of those products that are a benefit to your health.
More importantly to specifically boost your intake of those foods that are higher in the antioxidants that can boost your own immune system. This basic plan will assist with either recovery from health issues, avoiding health issues and just improving stamina and natural weight control. Fruit and vegetables are a large part of a healthy diet and it is a big chore to purchase, tote and prepare them in a busy world.
So powdered fruit and vegetables are becoming an important way to assist with nutrition. However, we suggest you instead buy the zip close packs and get the added convenience of being able to sprinkle them on to meals.
Boost Nutrients offers a range of Fruit Powders, Vegetable Powders and also seeds and other natural wholefood ingredients that are healthy high nutrient products. Our range is perfect to improve your nutrition and boost your immune health. They are idea for adding to; Smoothie drinks, Smoothie Bowls, Acai Bowls, Acai Porridge, Granola Bowls, Salads and many other meals.
Reprinted with permission from an article published on Opera Foods “Nutrition Pills! Really! Why eat all those capsule cases?“.