Does it blend frozen fruit, kale, some ice for a smoothie?
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The blade is much smaller and thinner than my vita mix which I use toake smoothie and power drinks a great investment I just use the emulsion blender for soups salad dressings
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I wish I had gotten this in place of my other blender, but yes, it makes smoothies. Make sure the container you use is the tall slender one and move the wand slowly up and down in the blender. It should look like baby food. Kale will need to be torn into small pieces without stems. Good luck!
1254671
Probably not. It is not the intended use. The blender is for soft fruits and veggies.
367602
Hi Elizabeth, if I'm only going to have a smoothie as a meal, then I normally blend in lots of frozen fruits and mix with juice. At other times, I add vegetables. It's very filling.
1254669
Probably not. It is not the intended use.The blender is for soft fruits and veggies.
1129639
I have never tried blending apples. My smoothie consists of kale, banana, strawberries and blueberries. This blender does a good job of "pulverizing" these ingredients.
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I have my doubts it would have enough power to mix anything with ice involved. I ended up donated my blender to a charity. Not of any use for making protein smoothies with frozen berries either!
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I have put Kale and Spinach in my smoothies (along with 4-5 ice cubes, 1 cup of liquid, 1 cup yogurt, a kiwi and some frozen fruit) and it chops the kale or spinach into very small fragments, it does not pulverize/liquify - but I would still consider that it does a very good job.
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We haven't tried veggies. I've done fruit smoothies with frozen fruit. It works well with frozen fruit chucks (the size of pineapple chunks) My daughter is in college and likes to make a smoothie on her way to class in the morning.
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Not sure, if I have it cold I put it in my smoothie,so it goes in the blender with the other fruits...
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Yes, but I haven't tried it just with kale. I put kale in my smoothies, so there are other ingredients with it.
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It works on frozen fruit, so I suspect it will do okay with ice cubes -- if you take certain precautions. The motor is not as strong as a regular blender. You might have to "bounce" the hand blender a bit and make sure to have enough liquid in your container to help move things around. Otherwise the blade simply gets blocked and the blender gets hot.
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No problem with a frozen banana,frozen strawberries, frozen mango, and frozen blueberries with kale and spinach all together. Blends smoothly (no pun).
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I have never tried it but I would imagine no. As mentioned before it's just a plastic blender piece. I do use it for making drinks cold with ice though as the spinning does melt the ice if it's only a small amount. For on the go smoothies I use a different blender which I do recommend: Hamilton Beach 51101B Personal Blender with Travel Lid, Black
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I want to purchase this blender for smoothies. Does it crush the ice and frozen fruit very well?
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I would say yes, although I have not tried that but it will do shaved ice, so it makes sense to me that you could do that. It pulverizes frozen fruits for smoothies, so again, I would think that the system is quite efficient.
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My daughter uses it to chop frozen fruits and fresh fruits and veggies with ice for smoothies and her mixes come out well blended and smooth.
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i was unable to successfully blend ice with this blender. this thing is more for soups than smoothies. i have no idea how other people have found success with ice. they might be using pre crushed ice from a fridge dispenser.