Now here is a product that everyone interested in whole foods nutrition should know about!

It looks like a fancy blender, but the Vita-Mix will complete a variety of tasks, from cooking soup to making frozen desserts.

It can cook soup because the blades rotate at up to 240 mph! The heat produced by the friction of this incredible rotation cooks soups in minutes.

It seems counter-intuitive, then, that the same machine can make frozen desserts. How? The Vita-Mix crushes ice amazingly small in mere seconds. At the same time, the process of blending “fluffs it up.” The result? Yummy sorbets and similar treats.

If you purchase the Super version, you will also receive a special dry pitcher that grinds whole grain into flour. If you don’t have a heavy-duty mixer or a bread machine, you can add the additional ingredients and the Vita-Mix will knead the dough for you.

The Vita-Mix will complete a number of other, standard blender and food processor tasks, such as making nut butters, emulsifying salad dressings, chopping cheese, dicing veggies, whipping cream, mixing pancake batters, making soy/nut milks, shredding meat, and powdering sugar (or Sucanat).

By far my favorite use for the Vita-Mix, though, is smoothies. At first blush, this seems basic – any old blender can makes smoothies, right? Not like this. Not only is the Vita-Mix more effective at crushing ice than your standard blender, it will effortlessly process WHOLE fruits and vegetables. (You do have to remove banana peels and other completely inedible parts.) I mean, you can add whole carrots, entire apples (core and all), etc. and they will blend up into the smoothest, creamiest smoothies you can imagine, with NO CHUNKS! More vitamins, more minerals, and definitely more fiber.

It carries a 30-day money-back guarantee and a 7-year warranty.