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Smoothie King Smoothies
Posted on 1/17/19 at 11:48 am
Posted on 1/17/19 at 11:48 am
If you look on their website it shows if you order the Gladiator it is only contains 3 grams of carbs and 1 gram of sugar. But if you add fruits to it, it shoots up drastically to like 65 carbs and 50 grams of sugar. Do their "fruits" really contain that much sugar?
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Posted on 1/17/19 at 11:50 am to TigerSaint1
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Do their "fruits" really contain that much sugar?
most fruits are loaded with sugar
avg apple has 19 g of sugar
avg banana has 14 g of sugar
This post was edited on 1/17/19 at 11:52 am
Posted on 1/17/19 at 11:54 am to TigerSaint1
Managed at a few SK's while in college. Almost all of their fruits are concentrated juice. The strawberries come frozen in a sugar syrup. The peaches and pineapples are canned. The only fresh fruit they use are the bananas.
Posted on 1/17/19 at 12:11 pm to TigerSaint1
Their smoothies are tasty, but definitely not "healthy"
Posted on 1/17/19 at 12:18 pm to GEAUXT
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Their smoothies are tasty, but definitely not "healthy"
A few of them aren't horrible. The Lean1 ones are pretty reasonable on the carbs/sugar scale.
Forget which one, but there was one they offer with over 100g of carbs for a 20oz. That is insane.
Posted on 1/17/19 at 12:22 pm to TigerSaint1
Fruits have sugar, but at least it's good sugar 
Posted on 1/17/19 at 12:23 pm to Bassassin
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Almost all of their fruits are concentrated juice
I think they've tried to move away from this recently
Posted on 1/17/19 at 12:28 pm to Salmon
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most fruits are loaded with sugar
avg apple has 19 g of sugar
avg banana has 14 g of sugar
They added sugar to their fruit until 3 months or so ago
Posted on 1/17/19 at 12:28 pm to lsuwontonwrap
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Fruits have sugar, but at least it's good sugar
You're not being serious are you?
Posted on 1/17/19 at 12:36 pm to GEAUXT
quote:yeah.... loads of fruit and ice arent healthy...
Their smoothies are tasty, but definitely not "healthy"
Posted on 1/17/19 at 12:38 pm to The Spleen
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A few of them aren't horrible. The Lean1 ones are pretty reasonable on the carbs/sugar scale.
Forget which one, but there was one they offer with over 100g of carbs for a 20oz. That is insane.
Yea you can get a pretty healthy smoothie there. YOu can also get a really unhealthy one as well. As you said, some of the Lean1 ones and gladiator ones and what not can be pretty good for you if done right.
As someone else has said, they have moved towards using more fresh fruit for the smoothies in recent years, though i'm sure they still use plenty of syrups and what not.
Posted on 1/17/19 at 12:44 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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They added sugar to their fruit until 3 months or so ago
Yep. The campaign is called "Cleaner Blending" but I don't think it's everywhere. I believe it's coming to Louisiana soon.
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This post was edited on 1/17/19 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 1/17/19 at 12:45 pm to TigerSaint1
The new model is “clean blending” the original smoothies will be phased out over time so the smoothies will have less added sugar.
Posted on 1/17/19 at 1:20 pm to NOLATiger71
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The new model is “clean blending” the original smoothies will be phased out over time so the smoothies will have less added sugar.
This is good news. I've avoided them for a while because you couldn't get anything without a ton of sugar/carbs in it.
Posted on 1/17/19 at 1:30 pm to TigerSaint1
I think the vanilla shredder has a bunch of protein and pretty low in the calorie category. I thought that was healthy but not sure about the sugars.
Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:56 pm to TigerSaint1
Idk when they switched to plastic cups, but I went for the first time in a while and that was a big change. I nearly turned around and bought the koozie, that cup nearly froze my hands
Posted on 1/17/19 at 8:54 pm to Upperdecker
So which one is your favorite?
Posted on 1/17/19 at 9:01 pm to Upperdecker
Haha i like the new clear plastics.
Some of the Clean Blending smoothies are in LA- Mangofest I think... it still has like 60+ grams of sugar in a small!
Some of the Clean Blending smoothies are in LA- Mangofest I think... it still has like 60+ grams of sugar in a small!
Posted on 1/17/19 at 9:25 pm to TigerSaint1
Chocolate gladiator with peanut butter and banana
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Posted on 3/7/19 at 10:29 pm to TigerSaint1
Go with a Gladiator (8G Base Carbs) with Greek Yogurt (3G Carb) and Whole Raspberries (8G Carbs). Total carb count 19. You got to know how to mix, and match. They are rolling out cleaner blending currently though it’s not fully implemented in Louisiana yet. Eliminating added sugar in most smoothies, and introducing more Whole fruits.
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