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SMOOTHIE · 3 RECIPES

Smoothies

A short shelf, honestly labelled. Every smoothie here is weighed in grams and blended whole, with a full nutrition panel computed from USDA per-100-gram data rather than copied from a carton.

The green protein smoothie builds on whey and collagen under kale, banana, and three kinds of seed. The strawberry banana is a documented classic with chia and warm spices, traced to furaneol for the strawberry and isoamyl acetate for the ripe banana.

The shelf grows from here, and every recipe that joins it arrives the same way: measured, sourced, and traced to its compounds.

FROM THE JOURNAL

The reading behind these recipes

The fish got its EPA and DHA from algae, and so, mostly, do we
№58Chemistry

The fish got its EPA and DHA from algae, and so, mostly, do we

Most of the EPA and DHA in a fish was built by microalgae and climbed the food chain to it, and people turn only a little of the plant omega-3 in flax and chia into either. The Danish doctors who made fish oil famous measured Greenlanders' blood rather than their hearts, and the largest trials of ordinary capsules missed their main targets.

13 October 2026·11 min read·46 SOURCES
Bloating, and what a smoothie can actually do about it
№57Chemistry

Bloating, and what a smoothie can actually do about it

The belly that swells by evening usually holds barely more gas than it did at breakfast. What the CT scans found, which trials a kiwifruit has actually moved, why the yogurt is allowed and the honey is not, and the enzyme claims that do not survive the stomach.

23 September 2026·11 min read·56 SOURCES
Big Mike, Blue Java, Matooke: a Map of Every Banana Worth Knowing
№49Origins

Big Mike, Blue Java, Matooke: a Map of Every Banana Worth Knowing

A wild banana is mostly seeds. Everything edible descends from a few Southeast Asian wild populations, some still unidentified, sorted into an alphabet of genomes. Here is who begat whom, why the export banana has died once already, and what banana candy has to do with it.

13 September 2026·9 min read·71 SOURCES