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1. The Vitamix machine makes delicious low fat fruit syrups without using your stove (and heating up the kitchen). Enjoy many mouthwatering flavors including apricot, black cherry, kiwi, strawberry, pear, peach and blueberry. Pour them on deserts, waffles and pancakes.
2. The Vitamix machine eliminates the tedious hours required to peel tomatoes and remove tomato seeds.
3. The Vitamix machine makes applesauce including the nutritious peeling, in 60 seconds. Making applesauce with the peelings on saves dozens of hours, PLUS you more than double your Vitamin A and fiber intake.
4. The Vitamix machine converts frozen fruit into instant fruit sorbets, healthy frozen yogurts, and low-calorie ice creams. The Vitamix machine makes frozen treats in just 30 seconds!
5. The Vitamix machine makes delicious fruit and vegetable juices in seconds, from grapes and apples to tomatoes and carrots. “Total juice” made in the Vitamix machine is up to 9 times more nutritious than extracted juice and eliminates up to 80% of the waste common with other juicers, and can be made up to five times faster than extracted juice!
6. The Vitamix machine melts cheese into delicious, steaming hot fondues, with absolutely no scorching, curdling or lumping.
7. The Vitamix machine chops whole zucchinis in seconds for freezing and later use in breads, pastries, soups, and casseroles.
8. The Vitamix machine chops potatoes into delicious southern-style hash browns. It takes only 2 seconds!
9. The Vitamix machine converts tomatoes and other vegetables into nutritious health cocktails.
10. The Vitamix machine turns pumpkins into pie fillings, muffins and ice cream as fast as you can say “the frost is on the pumpkin”.
11. The Vitamix machine purees pecans, walnuts and peanuts into gourmet nut butters (without any artificial ingredients added). Creamy style or chunky style.
12. The Vitamix machine turns honeydews, nectarines, oranges, and strawberries into delicious cold fruit soups in seconds!
13. The Vitamix machine cooks unbelievably delicious, steaming soups from scratch in about 4 minutes (it makes eight 8 oz. servings). Use tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms, potatoes, onions, etc. You will absolutely love the Vitamix Pizza Soup recipe.
14. The Vitamix machine turns tomatoes, peppers, chiles, and onions into delicious salsas and picantes. You can process a batch in 5 to 10 seconds.
15. If you use a dehydrator to make fruit leather, the Vitamix machine will make the necessary fruit puree up to 5 times faster than a blender.
16. The Vitamix machine turns cucumbers and other garden-fresh vegetables into delicious salad dressing and chip-dips.
17. The Vitamix machine helps you make flavor-packed frozen fruit bars such as strawberry-banana, peach and
    choco-banana.

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"When I told my friends they were eating tomato/strawberry ice cream, they begged me for the recipe!"

It was pinkish in color. So naturally they thought it was strawberry ice cream. Their first bite told them it wasn't. That was followed by a second bite. Despite the puzzled looks on their faces, I could tell they liked it. They began to roll their tongues against the tops of their mouths -- hoping their taste buds would recognize the flavor.

A third bite. Then Alice said, "I like this flavor. What is it?" Beth chimed in, "This tastes great, but I can't tell what flavor it is." I could tell John's mental wheels were racing. He wanted his tongue to be the first to reveal the mystery flavor. His first words, "I like the taste of this, but it has an unusual flavor. And I'm not sure I've ever eaten anything quite like it." By now, I was dying to see the expressions on their faces when I told them my secret. Boastfully, I blurted out, "It's fresh tomato ice cream!"

Tomato/Strawberry Ice Cream Recipe

In unison and utter disbelief they said, "You've got to be kidding!"

I was quick to point out, "Why not ice cream made from tomatoes? Technically they are a fruit, and I have never tasted ice cream made from a fruit that wasn't delicious!"

While waiting in line for a second helping, each guest insisted that I give them my fresh tomato ice cream recipe. I told them the key to tomato ice cream was not the recipe, but the fact that I owned the Vitamix Super 5200. I had no sooner explained that it would not work in a conventional ice cream freezer when a fellow tomato lover discovered why.

He asked the exact same question voiced by a luncheon guest months earlier. I had just cooked a batch of Tomato-Onion-Cheese Soup in my Vitamix Super 5200. After raving about how delicious it tasted, she asked, "If this is made from fresh tomatoes, what happened to all the seeds and skins?"

My reply to the ice cream lover and the soup lover was the same, "You just ate them!"

Eager to learn more, the soup lover said she was presently spending 12 hours a day in her hot sweaty kitchen peeling tomatoes and then running them through a colander to remove the seeds.

She lamented that she had 6 more bushels to go, and hoping she could eliminate the long tedious hours associated with canning, said, "If your Vitamix Super 5000 will remove the seeds and skins from my tomatoes, I will buy one!"

I reminded her that it doesn't remove the seeds and skins. Instead the tremendous impact of the revolutionary blade technology reduces them to a creamy smooth puree.

She bought a Vitamix Super 5200. That's the same reason why my tomato ice cream tasted so smooth and delicious to my friends.

The Vitamix Super 5200 makes ice cream just as easily from frozen or canned tomatoes as it does from fresh tomatoes. You can make any flavor of ice cream, fruit sorbet or frozen yogurt you can think of. It also makes the best fresh salsa I have ever tasted as well as refreshing, nutritious fruit and vegetable juices.

There are two things my Vitamix Super 5200 will not make. Work and a big mess! That is the part I appreciate most of all. It has no attachments and the container is self-cleaning!

I think W.H. from Inola, OK, sums it up nicely: "I wanted to tell you how thrilled I am with my Vitamix. I now eat fruit skins and yogurt that I've never been able to eat before.I've boxed up my meat grinder, blender, food processor, ice crusher, juice maker, electric ice cream freezer and nut chopper for my next garage sale."

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