I always include the banana, as it does a great job of masking any sour flavors. But, honestly, when everything is blended up, you really don't taste any one thing (aside from banana, of course). Somehow, my smoothies come out tasting a lot like cinnamon, and I'm really not quite sure why. Might be the Acai? I don't know what flavors are combining to form cinnamon, but I'm not complaining.
I also like to make a big batch of smoothie and keep a whole smoothie covered, waiting in the fridge. I'm lazy, and I know that I tend to wait until I am extremely hungry to make a smoothie (a bad habit I have to work on), so I like to have one in reserve.
I do want to mention something that most people are grossed out by, but I won't be too graphic about it...
Poop. I SAID POOP! Without getting too graphic (too late?), the most obvious benefits to this diet, so far, is that my digestive system is very happy with me. The Vitamineral Greens label warns that if you use too much of it, too quickly, you can experience some bowel issues. Greens work as a disgestive cleanse - especially when you first start out - and, I guess some people have had some issues. I have not. When you start drinking smoothies like this, the body doesn't have to work very hard at all to digest them. And, since the entire smoothie is one big vitamin, your body actually absorbs and makes use of every single thing you're ingesting, hence all of the energy.
I posted a picture of my smoothie yesterday to Facebook, and all of the responses were basically, "EWWW!" And, I get that. That would have been my comment a year ago. We've been trained to see green and make a face. Yummy food isn't green! In current American society, "yummy" food is usually brown. How boring is that?
Death to brown foods, and viva la smoothie!
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