My mom kindly offered to prepare that smoothie I wanted to make because she wanted my brother to consume more fruits and vegetables. He often goes rogue when on trips. On my request, she combined three pitted dates, an apple, mixed berries and blueberries, grapes, spinach and mixed greens in the blender. She also added three tablespoons each of chia and flax seeds as well as two tablespoons each of pumpkin and sunflower seeds. The Vitamix was furious.
When she served me a glass of the concoction, it had a brownish purple, somewhat gray color. The greens and blended fibers had silenced any sweetness from the fruit. Only sour and bitter notes came through. I decided I wanted to experiment with a smoothie bowl. I recently purchased steel cut oats and had five dried figs I had chopped up. The end result was a rocky miasma. HAHAHAHA! I took a picture for fun:
Once I realized that the oats had the texture of chewy gravel, I combined everything together so that they could absorb some liquid. The figs added some needed sweetness to the muck. Eventually, I was able to finish all of it. I actually want some more; maybe ripe banana slices would make it better.
A Time to Try New Things 