Ben Greenfield makes a thick smoothie that tastes like ice cream using frozen avocado, bone broth, cacao, and maca. He adds vitamin C to help your body absorb the collagen from the broth, and explains why each ingredient matters for hormones and overall health.
Questions this video answers
About 8 ounces of ice.
He uses half of an entire frozen avocado (he has one whole but uses half).
Frozen organic bone broth from Kettle & Fire (about half a carton).
About two teaspoons of Ceylon cinnamon.
About half a lemon.
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Hey, I'm Ben Greenfield, and I like to have ice cream for breakfast. I'm going to show you exactly how I make a super duper healthy ice cream for breakfast. First thing we've got here is lovely appetizing frozen avocado. Actually looks like crap when you freeze it, but tastes like ambrosia in this smoothie. I've got an entire frozen avocado in here. I'm going to use half of that avocado. That's going to give the creaminess. I've also got a cup of ice. Put about 8 ounces of ice in there. Next thing is, I have a half carton leftover of frozen bone broth from Kettle and Fire. This is, like frozen organic bone broth. Now, while I put my other ingredients in in, what I'm going to do is run this bone broth. You can follow me if you want to. Otherwise it could be a boring video. I'm going to run this bone broth underneath a little bit of water to melt it, because what I do is I just freeze it overnight.
So I like to get it just a little bit thawed out as I'm working on the other components of my ice cream. So. So I've messed around with some different recipes, and this is the best one. I've got cinnamon. I'm going to put the equivalent of about two teaspoons of a good Ceylon cinnamon in there. I've got a little bit of lemon squeeze of half a lemon is going to enhance the collagen that gets released from that bone broth. So I squeeze about half a lemon in there because the vitamin C will enhance the collagen absorption. Next thing that goes in. This is kind of cool stuff. This is one of my faves of late. It's perfect keto, but it's salted caramel flavor. Get the salted caramel flavor because it's just bomb. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna put a couple of scoops of salted caramel perfect keto. And this is mostly just, like, ketones and collagen and this lovely, lovely caramel flavor. I'm doing about three heaping scoops in there. So this is gonna be right around, I believe, 20 grams or so of collagen. Okay. The next thing that I add in there, I like this stuff from organifi. You can use any form of cacao, but I like it chocolaty. This organifi stuff has, like, coconut oil in it and cinnamon and all sorts of little superfoods. And so What I'm going to do is two scoops of this.
And lastly, well, not quite lastly, but last. Powder. I like Maca. Mac is a good superfood. It's good for your testosterone, good for libido, it's good for just general hormone balance. So I put the equivalent of about a heaping teaspoon of Mac in there. You can see I like to measure things out extremely precisely. And then I've got this mica organic stevia. This stuff's vanilla flavored. So good. I know you're thinking right now, man, that's a lot of stuff to buy to make ice cream. But once you have all this stuff in your house, pretty, pretty fun to be able to experiment a little bit of bit of better living through science. Okay, last thing here is I've got a little bit of coconut water. And for all of you who are going to type in, I know your fingers are hovering over the keyboard right now. Won't that take you out of ketosis? Just freaking hold back, okay? Hold back. Use water. Use water if you're concerned about all that horrible poisonous sugar from the 4 ounces of coconut water I just put in there. Okay, next we're going to get the bone broth.
Which is, I should have thought ahead before the video because usually I thaw it out a little bit more than this, but I'm going to dump it in there anyways and if it won't come out and what you can do is open up your carton because I don't want this to be a video fail. I want to actually show you guys how to make this stuff. So in a pinch, if you just can't get the bone broth thawed in time because you turned on the video, forgot to thaw the bone broth first use mortar and pestle.
Just like like our ancestors used to do with their frozen bone broth in the carton. Okay, so all this goes in here. This ice cream is going to be amazing. This is my breakfast. Okay, now I'm ready to blend. So I will show you in a moment after I blend what this looks like. So I'm going to turn off the video because I'm also going to show you a secret ingredient you can top this with to make it even more bomb. I'll be right back.
Alright, so as you can see, while the blender was going, I put a shirt on because I wanted this to be a G rated video. Also, you got to blend for a while. I use this ninja blender. It works really well because the Blade is shaped like this, but you want to turn it on for like three minutes to get good creamy ice cream. The other thing I didn't show you that I forgot was I put a little pinch of salt in there, and I find that that helps the texture. Okay, what do I top this bad boy with? What I'm going to go with today, I like some super food, so I'm going to throw some spirulina in there. Just a little bit of spirulina. Not too much, by the way. That's what the texture of the ice cream actually looks like. When you're done, I'm going to put a little bit of this. This is a nut butter. This is actually made by the same people. Perfect keto. So I'm going to put a little bit of nut butter in there. And this is macadamia nuts, cashews, coconut butter, medium chain triglycerides, vanilla bean powder, and sea salt. Oh, and for those of you who are also going to ask, will this smoothie take you out of ketosis because of all that coconut water in it? You may also be about to ask, can I eat this in a fasted state? Can I eat this in a fasted state? Will this smoothie keep me fasted? The answer is, hell no. This is like an 800 calorie smoothie. Okay. Last thing I throw in there is the kion energy bar. Since it's cacao nibs and coconut flakes and almonds and sesame seeds and chia seeds, I keep these in the freezer and I break up about half of an energy bar. A kion energy bar, and I just put it in there. It's really good on ice cream that you buy from the store, like Halo top or Arctic freeze, but it's really good on this ice cream, too. So let's get one more close up of what this ice cream looks like. If you want to bring the camera on over here. So check this out. It's like nice, creamy, coconutty coconut butter. So, so good. So that is basically how I make breakfast when I'm a big old hungry boy and I just want to dump a whole bunch of superfoods into my body. I hope you enjoyed that. Remember to eat your vegetables. Remember, this will probably take you out of ketosis and probably take you out of a fasted state and probably make you really happy for breakfast.
