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Permalink Reply by Jay Caragay on June 19, 2011 at 7:10pm

Sweetbird's ingredient lists always look appealing.

 

But if you're really looking for all natural smoothies, why not simply make your own from scratch?  That way you know the complete provenance of all the ingredients.

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Permalink Reply by Peter Milne on June 19, 2011 at 8:34pm

How about fresh fruit?

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Zimmermann on June 20, 2011 at 9:00am

Brandi,

We are a specialty roaster wholesaler in Wisconsin and we have been offering Sweetbird smoothies to our accounts for a few months now. We also drink them all the time. They are excellent. What we like about them is the the main ingredients are real fruit puree and they have no artificial flavors or colors. The real fruit smoothes base runs about $7.50 per liter and each liter makes six 16 oz servings with blended with milk or ice. They also rolled out 100% fruit smoothie mix which which won SCAAs Best New Product Award this spring. These are $8.50 per liter and contain no added sugar. Very cool stuff. 

 

You can always blend fruit and yogurt to make smoothies, but they can gobble up a lot fruit which can make them just as pricey to make. The nice thing about the sweetbird mixes is that you can do real fruit smoothies with hard to find fruits like mango, black current and peach any time of the year. They are also very fast to make. 

 

I hope this helps!

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Permalink Reply by Brandi Heath on June 20, 2011 at 12:14pm

thanks joseph thats exactly the answer i was lookin for :)

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Permalink Reply by Ian C. on August 10, 2011 at 2:37pm

We thought about using different mixes, but the cheapest and most natural method (we found) is to blend yogurt, ice, frozen fruit, and apple juice.

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Permalink Reply by Matt Milletto on August 10, 2011 at 6:42pm

We have Sweetbird at the American Barista & Coffee School, and there are a lot of advantages to using a fresh fruit puree instead of fresh or frozen fruit. Very easy to control portions, waste, seasonality of fruits, etc. I highly recommend them and we have clients who have been very satisfied. Plus they have been a big bX supporter for quite some time. :)

 

- Matt

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