weird beige seed looking things in smoothies

bearkisses
bearkisses Posts: 1,252 Member
in Food and Nutrition
hey mfp

I have been making smoothies for just over a week now, and twice I noticed hard beige seed like things...but I can't place where they are coming from.

Smoothie today is just spinach, frozen raspberries and blueberries, pineapple, and applesauce

I have been shaking my smoothie all day, and noticed some at the side of the bottle I am drinking out of. I picked it up off my desk, looked at the bottom and thought my smoothie had a maggot infestation. I took a couple out and they are really hard, like seeds, smaller than apple seeds.

Last week I had them, and thought maybe they were from some older strawberries...but there were no strawbs in my smoothie today. What they hell? Is this because my smoothie is unrefrigerated? I tried to google it but I get swamped with recipes that include seeds...:/

Thoughts/help?
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  • its_go_time
    its_go_time Posts: 263 Member
    How big are they? The obvious guess is from the raspberries. Post a pic if you can.
  • Cr01502
    Cr01502 Posts: 3,614 Member
    Is your smoothie made from organic ingedients?

    If not they could be potentially fatal poisons.
  • bearkisses
    bearkisses Posts: 1,252 Member
    They are about half the size of an apple seed. And there are soooo many of them....I eat raspberries raw often and never notice seeds that are really hard...these aren't even crunchy hard, but like apple seed hard...and there are no appleseeds in my applesauce.
  • bearkisses
    bearkisses Posts: 1,252 Member
    Is your smoothie made from organic ingedients?

    If not they could be potentially fatal poisons.

    It is not organic, and I know you must be joking...and it isn't funny. When you have a ton of these maggoty looking things in your smoothie you will understand.
  • bearkisses
    bearkisses Posts: 1,252 Member
    I will take a picture when I get home tonight, no device to it now :(
  • KenosFeoh
    KenosFeoh Posts: 1,837 Member
    Save your samples and smash out a few raspberry seeds to compare. That seems the most obvious culprit, but what do I know? Do you keep your blender scrupulously clean?
  • SoViLicious
    SoViLicious Posts: 2,633 Member
    Is your smoothie made from organic ingedients?

    If not they could be potentially fatal poisons.

    Or bug eggs.
  • mamasmaltz3
    mamasmaltz3 Posts: 1,111 Member
    If your pineapple is fresh pineapple I would say the seeds are from the pineapple.
  • lmorr7
    lmorr7 Posts: 11 Member
    Google "raspberry seeds" -- it seems to be close to what you are describing.
  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    Raspberries have seeds, blueberries have seeds. Raspberry seeds are actually quite large and the reason I don't put them in smoothies.
  • mamasmaltz3
    mamasmaltz3 Posts: 1,111 Member
    Pineapple seeds look like small apple seeds.
  • TR0berts
    TR0berts Posts: 7,739 Member
    Take a closer look at all the individual ingredients. That's where they came from.
  • 1ConcreteGirl
    1ConcreteGirl Posts: 3,677 Member
    Is your smoothie made from organic ingedients?

    If not they could be potentially fatal poisons.

    It is not organic, and I know you must be joking...and it isn't funny. When you have a ton of these maggoty looking things in your smoothie you will understand.

    If I had a ton of maggoty looking things in my smoothie I..... would not drink it.
  • angelaanhela
    angelaanhela Posts: 111 Member
    Depends on what they look like but blueberries (depending on how big they are) and raspberries have small beige seeds.
  • sewerchick93
    sewerchick93 Posts: 1,438 Member
    my first thought was pineapple seeds
  • bearkisses
    bearkisses Posts: 1,252 Member
    they look like raspberry seeds...why have i never noticed these before. i clearly never ever chew my food! in the event that the contamination grows, i will take a picture, there are soooo many of them compared to amount of berries i put in. And my blender is clean as can be, wash it right after each use.
  • 1brokegal44
    1brokegal44 Posts: 562 Member
    blueberry seeds
  • XXJanBXX
    XXJanBXX Posts: 15 Member
    Sounds like it's the seeds from the raspberries and the blueberries. x
  • bearkisses
    bearkisses Posts: 1,252 Member
    Is your smoothie made from organic ingedients?

    If not they could be potentially fatal poisons.

    It is not organic, and I know you must be joking...and it isn't funny. When you have a ton of these maggoty looking things in your smoothie you will understand.

    If I had a ton of maggoty looking things in my smoothie I..... would not drink it.

    I'm not anymore, as soon as I noticed I felt super disappointed.
  • Cr01502
    Cr01502 Posts: 3,614 Member
    Is your smoothie made from organic ingedients?

    If not they could be potentially fatal poisons.

    Or bug eggs.

    Perhaps maggot eggs? Anyone know what they look like?
  • neandermagnon
    neandermagnon Posts: 7,436 Member
    they look like raspberry seeds...why have i never noticed these before. i clearly never ever chew my food! in the event that the contamination grows, i will take a picture, there are soooo many of them compared to amount of berries i put in. And my blender is clean as can be, wash it right after each use.

    one raspberry contains many seeds
  • WoWkat
    WoWkat Posts: 48 Member

    Smoothie today is just spinach, frozen raspberries and blueberries, pineapple, and applesauce

    The definition of fruit is "The sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant that contains seed and can be eaten as food."

    Everything that you listed, minus the spinach, has seeds (although I would be dissapointed if I purchased applesauce that had seeds in it).
  • blondemom1979
    blondemom1979 Posts: 64 Member
    Pineapple seeds look like small apple seeds.


    ^ this was what I was going to say, likely pineapple seeds :D
  • bearkisses
    bearkisses Posts: 1,252 Member

    Smoothie today is just spinach, frozen raspberries and blueberries, pineapple, and applesauce

    The definition of fruit is "The sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant that contains seed and can be eaten as food."

    Everything that you listed, minus the spinach, has seeds (although I would be dissapointed if I purchased applesauce that had seeds in it).

    I know all fruit has seeds...I just didn't think raspberries sold with the seeds, I have literally never noticed them while eating fresh berries (and for the smart guys, i froze them myself).
  • mamasmaltz3
    mamasmaltz3 Posts: 1,111 Member

    Smoothie today is just spinach, frozen raspberries and blueberries, pineapple, and applesauce

    The definition of fruit is "The sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant that contains seed and can be eaten as food."

    Everything that you listed, minus the spinach, has seeds (although I would be dissapointed if I purchased applesauce that had seeds in it).

    I know all fruit has seeds...I just didn't think raspberries sold with the seeds, I have literally never noticed them while eating fresh berries (and for the smart guys, i froze them myself).



    Seeds can't be removed from raspberries without smashing the fruit and straining the seeds out.
  • clairesky3
    clairesky3 Posts: 8 Member
    Why don't you do blend every individual ingredient separately? That way you can pin point exactly where they are coming from!
  • 1ConcreteGirl
    1ConcreteGirl Posts: 3,677 Member

    Smoothie today is just spinach, frozen raspberries and blueberries, pineapple, and applesauce

    The definition of fruit is "The sweet and fleshy product of a tree or other plant that contains seed and can be eaten as food."

    Everything that you listed, minus the spinach, has seeds (although I would be dissapointed if I purchased applesauce that had seeds in it).

    I know all fruit has seeds...I just didn't think raspberries sold with the seeds, I have literally never noticed them while eating fresh berries (and for the smart guys, i froze them myself).

    Raspberries have a ton of seeds. That's why I don't put them in my smoothies.
  • Mokey41
    Mokey41 Posts: 5,769 Member
    Every little bump on a raspberry has a seed in it.
  • krickeyuu
    krickeyuu Posts: 344 Member
    They are most likely the seeds from your fruits as others have suggested. Even using a Vita Mix, which has a very high RPM motor and will pulverize foods, it is difficult to completely pulverize the seeds from berries--strawberries, reaspberries and blackberries, especially. My husband won't eat these fruits because of the seeds. When you eat them, the seeds stick in your teeth--when you blend them the seeds float in your smoothie. You could try straining your smoothie through a sieve before drinking it.
  • firstsip
    firstsip Posts: 8,399 Member
    What's wrong with maggots? Those are good sources of protein.

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