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I often enjoy (when it's not dead of winter) a fruit smoothie for breakfast; generally I use orange juice or some other juice flavor (V8 has a few with fruit flavors masking veggie tastes that I sometimes use), yogurt, and fruit I've frozen myself (removes the need for ice, leading to a thicker smoothie). Typically I use strawberries and bananas; however, when I purchase smoothies, my favorite flavors involve raspberry. I've tried purchasing frozen berries and tossing some in, but the seeds irritate me to no end.

How can I get the taste of raspberries, preferably from raspberries themselves rather than extract (seems healthier), but not the seeds?

Yamikuronue
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There are a couple common ways to deal with seeds in berries:

  • Use a food mill, which uses a rotating blade to crush the berries and force them through small holes. They're designed for this sort of thing - removing seeds or large pieces of pulp.

  • Do what the food mill does, but by hand: push them through a reasonably fine strainer/sieve. Unless they're really soft, you generally want to puree them first. You can also incorporate other ingredients first, to give more liquid to work with, so you don't have to do as much pushing.

Cascabel
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I'd stew the raspberries down with a little water (and sugar if the raspberries aren't sweet) until they're very soft, then pass the whole thing through a sieve to remove the seeds. You can then either store the result in the fridge, or pour it into an ice cube tray for easy portioning and a nice cold smoothie.

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Instead of cooking the berries, freeze them. Freezing causes the berries to burst their cell wall. Run them through a coarse wire sieve or colander (strainer) using the back of a wooden spoon. Faster is to run the frozen, and now thawed berries through a Foley food mill. It will remove most of the seeds. A few seeds might slip through. That's why I suggested using a food sieve or strainer. I use my Grandparent's antique one. It has two thin metal supports on the outside of the wire.

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Some brands of raspberry yoghurt don't have seeds, and you say you're adding yoghurt anyway, so you could try that.

Vicky
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We have invented a new product called the Smoothie Press™. It's a travel mug for smoothies that strains out berry seeds. Really cool!! Check it out here:

www.smoothiepress.com

Happy Holidays!

~Jodi

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