That’s the abbreviated title. The full name is:
The Raw Vegan, Anti-Cancer, Super Anti-Oxidant Fruit Smoothie!
This recipe was given to me as part of my Anti-Cancer Diet by my Naturopath John Smothers and I’ve been drinking it almost everyday since 2004, usually as an afternoon snack.
Surgeon Generals Warning:
Highly Addictive Deliciousness.
Here is the recipe:
1 Young Coconut
I buy a case of nine for around $12 at a local Asian market.
Make sure you ask for “Young Coconuts”, they are much softer and easier to cut than fully mature coconuts.
I love Asian markets. It’s like stepping into a strange exotic world. The shelves are filled with weird products and food you will never see anywhere else; all written in a language you can’t read. So be prepared. Also the employees may not speak English very well, if at all. Lots of nods and smiles. And there will be some strange odors.
The Chinese market I frequent keeps cases of coconuts in the back freezer.
I always ask someone to fetch me a case from the back because it’s easier than trying to carry nine coconuts in those little hand baskets. A case of 9 coconuts costs me about $14.
Some grocery stores sell them individually for around $2 each.
I love the instructions on the case:
1) Touch knife to coconut
2) Insert straw and flower
Ok here’s the recipe:
1-2 cups of Frozen Organic Berries
I buy them prepackaged in the frozen section of my local Whole Foods Market, and you may find them at conventional supermarkets as well. They usually cost around $3.99 for a 1 lb bag.
They usually contain blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries; and a package should have about three servings. I recently discovered that Costco also sells huge bags of Organic Berries. Score!
Some of the known anti-cancer nutrients in these fruits:
Blueberries contain ellagic acid, anthrocyanins, OPC, and caffeic acid.
Raspberries and Strawberries contain ellagic acid, and laetrile.
Blackberries also contain ellagic acid and have anti-mutagenic effects as they protect cell dna from damage
1 Frozen Organic Banana
The frozen banana makes it sweet, thick, and frosty like adding ice cream would. Ice is optional, if you like it icey.
For anyone out there worried about the sugar in fruit, you should know that the fat in the coconut slows down the absorption of the fruit into your blood stream, keeping your insulin in check.
Next the fun part: Getting the coconut open. The goal is to cut the top off the coconut without 1) injuring yourself or 2) spilling the juice everywhere. You will need a strong and sharp serrated knife. A bendy blade ginsu knife is not going to get it.
I’m partial to Cutco Cutlery.
Here’s how you do it:
CAREFULLY insert the blade straight down with a stabbing motion into the top of the coconut (Hi-ya!), then make a sideways cut about 2-3 inches long. Repeat this 4 to 6 times, working your way around the top of the coconut connecting the cuts until you can easily remove the octagon-shaped top.
-Pour the coconut juice into a blender.
-Scoop out the white coconut meat with a spoon and put it in the blender.
-Blend the juice and meat together to make coconut milk.
(I use and highly recommend the Vita-Mix 5200 Blender.)
In most blenders you’ll need to blend up the juice and meat before adding other ingredients. It will be lumpy if you don’t.
-Blend in 1 cup of frozen organic berries
-Blend in 1 banana (frozen is best, if your blender can handle it)
Of course there are a million more ingredients you could add to jazz it up, but that’s the basic smoothie I drink almost everyday.
So prepare to enjoy a delicious, super healthy, high anti-oxidant, cancer-fighting smoothie!
Note: If you can’t get young coconuts locally, you should be able to find canned organic coconut milk at the grocery store. It’s more economical as each can contains 7 servings for around $2.00. We keep a few cans of it handy to use when I run out of fresh ones.
The total cost of ingredients is about $3.50 and it makes 32-40 oz of smoothie, depending on the size of the coconut. That’s less than a dollar per 8 oz. serving!
The best way to freeze bananas:
Peel a bunch of ripe bananas and put them all in a freezer bag. Ripe means they have what my mother-in-law calls “sugar kisses” on them. We just call them brown spots.
Some people individually wrap them in cellophane. I think it’s too much trouble.
You can also put a kabob stick in them and eat them like a popsicle once they’re frozen. This is a great healthy alternative to popsicles. Hey parents! Kids love frozen bananas. Another cool thing you can do is run a frozen banana through a Champion Juicer and make banana “ice cream”.
Some blenders just can’t handle frozen bananas.
The Vita-Mix 5200 is a commercial blender that will destroy anything in it’s path.
It’s the one most smoothie places use and its 2HP motor will make your blender at home look like a toy.
It comes with 400 recipes for smoothies, blended veggie juice, nut butters, soups, salsa, guacamole, healthy ice cream, even how to churn fresh butter, and mill whole grains.
This is the single most versatile kitchen appliance on the planet! They give you a 30 day free trial and a 7 year warranty. And it comes in red, white, and black. We got the red one and we love it!!!
This link will get you free shipping when you checkout:
Buy the Vita-Mix 5200 Blender here
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If you’d like to see my coconut smoothie skills in action,
I made a how-to video you can watchHERE.
You also might like my related posts on Juicing and The Giant Cancer Fighting Salad.
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Chris, you mention a Naturopath. I am curious. Did he help you with your nutrition during the first 90 days? Did your doctor recommend him? What was your doctors reaction when you said you weren’t going to do the chemo? Thanks for your website. Soaking up all your knowledge. Not diagnosed, getting my colonoscopy on Tuesday. Hoping for the best. I have already begun eating healthy. But I keep making mistakes like tomatoes on my salads. But now I know not to do that. I have my grocery list ready to go. Thanks so much, Dawn
Hi Dawn
The naturopath I worked with definitely helped me with nutrition and natural therapies in the first 90 days and beyond.
He was recommended to me by my mom, then by a random friend from church.
The oncologist told me I was insane if I didn’t do chemo.
Can you tell me how much of the canned coconut you would put in? Is it just a few tablespoons worth? Thanks. Also, I see you were not concerned about the sugar from the fruit. Did you read something about it that allayed any concerns? Thanks. Julie
Hi Chris, I was at your talk at Cosmic Coconut recently and found out shortly after that my dad had colon cancer. He had a little over half his colon removed this past Monday. The low residue diet after surgery is very unhealthy-no fresh fruits, veggies or whole grains that might rip out the stitches. Did you start juicing with the vita mixer as soon as you got home-since the vita mixer turns the whole foods into juice I would think it would be very safe on the colon. Please let me know what you did right after surgery.
Thanks and God Bless,
Valerie
Hi Valerie
Thanks for coming out to my New Years Revolution Seminar!
Sorry to hear about your Dad.
I did not start juicing right after surgery as I did not have a juicer yet.
and didn’t have my health strategy figured out yet.
The first meal the hospital served me two days after my colon surgery was a sloppy joe,
that didn’t strike me a very healthy first meal after having a third of my large intestine removed!
I don’t remember what I ate in the few weeks that followed surgery,
I was doped up. I’m sure it was whatever the doctors recommended…
Soup, mashed potatoes, milkshakes… Not what I would eat now.
The Vitamix does not turn foods into juice. Technically it’s more of a smoothie
because all the pulp/fiber is still in there, it’s just blenderized and liquified.
This might be ok… but I’m not an expert on post-surgery diets.
Proceed with caution.
Only a true juicer like the Champion Juicer separates the juice from the pulp. No pulp = no fiber.
So vegetable juice is definitely ok post surgery.
I recommend the Vitamix AND the Champion Juicer as they do very different things.
We have basically the same smoothie every day too but we also add a few tablespons of flax meal cold milled which we store in fridge. It is loaded with good lignans which is anti-cancer, as well as fiber
I am glad to know of your survival. I read some of your articles and I believe much of what you have said. I especially like your self talk about why you decided against chemo. My husband died 2009, after going through chemo 7 months. I tried to convince him to try alternative methods, but he decided against it and I had to go along with his choice.
Hi Eva.
That must have been very difficult for you.
There are people close to me that I would very much like to help, but they are not open to it either.
I am so sorry for your loss.
Thank you so much for sharing your experience here.
:)
HI,
I read your website and gave me great inspiration. I have Intraductal Carcinoma INSITU in my right breast. I have been vegetarian all my life but I have become vegan, have started taking Quercetin and Curcuminoids as well drinking Green smoothie with kale and collard and berry smoothie. We do not get green coconuts but recently Costco near my place has started selling coconut water and I have started drinking that at least 11 oz per day. Have not gone through surgery yet its been 3 weeks, since I found out and change my diet. Any suggestions for me? I hate to go through radiation but I guess I have to.
Hi Paulomi
I would definitely have another progress test before surgery to see if what you are doing is working.
Many vegetarians eat way too much sugar, carbs, and soy. These are not health promoting foods.
I would buy cans of organic coconut milk. 1 can typically has 7 servings, just mix it with clean water.
Coconut water does not have lauric acid. You need it.
Read my post on coconuts for more info about.
The raw vegan diet is powerful to detox and flood your body with nutrients,
but you should definitely look into the Budwig Protocol, which is organic cottage cheese and flax seed oil.
It is a very powerful anti-cancer concoction.
Read all about it at http://www.cancertutor.com
It worked!
Unfortunately there was no way I could have other progress test, but I went for surgery and ( lumpectomy) and the results of pathology said no malignancy found. Doctors are saying that I should at least go for Radiation once my stitches are healed but I am leaning toward not going for radiation. There say is, might be the growth was so little that when they did steriotactic biopsy it came out with that but technically you had DCIS and the minimum you should do is the radiation!
I am continuing with diet.
In Budwig I am mixing oil with coconut and nuts to bind it, as I would never take milk or soy product.
I read another website http://www.rense.com/general35/av.htm
which says it is important not to take any milk product.
Thank you so much for your support and input.
Hi Paulomi/Chris:
My mother is diagnosed with Cervix Cancer and we family has refused to go with Orthodox treatment. I found this blog and got alot of motivation to go with Naturopathy treatment.
Can you share some video or steps to mix flexseed oil with coconut and nuts. My mother can’t drink dairy products.
Thanks for help
hi all,
i m writing all of it in a desperate mode to learn a lot. My mom has a lump (axillary lump) to be precise which doc has asked to check thru mammogram and ultrasounds. After that a biopsy might also be conducted. As a preemptive measure i want to cure her lump without anything injurious like readiation or surgery, any suggestions please.
PS : I reside in Pakistan
Try adding a bit of raw cocoa, macca and kale.
Hi Chris,
We live in the same city…which grocery store do you purchase your young coconuts at? Can you say on here? Maybe you can message me if not? Thanks! Loving your blog!
Hey Stephanie!
Thanks so much
Flattery will get you everywhere.
You might want to check at the grocery store you frequent first. But I know that Whole Foods, Great China Food Market, and some Krogers carry them.
They seem to be picking up some popularity!
:)
Chris
As for juicing can I use a blender until I get a juicer?
Hi Angee
Yes you can use a blender, the difference is that a juicer separates the juice from the pulp which makes it easier for your body to absorb. With a blender you’re basically going to make smoothies.
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I saw your web site via msn the other day and absolutely love it. Keep up this fantastic work.
I think we need to see a video of you butchering your coconut :)