Milkshakes, Smoothies, Lassi, Frappes, Mocha

What is it?
Many people confuse what is a shake, smoothie, frappe, or even others like malt shake and lassi. It's all in what the base of it is. It all comes down to a liquid base which automatically changes it's name.

There are 5 different blender refreshment drinks that you can make in a blender.

What is a Milk Shake?

A milk shake contains milk, or ice cream, half -n- half or any cream base. Any of those dairy products in a blender is what makes it a shake. It doesn't matter what else it may or may not contain. A milk shake may have chocolate, or fruits vegetables or anything else except coffee. Will go into why a shake cannot contain coffee later. Read on. It makes no difference if a milk shake has any or no ice in it or whether it has a lot of ice. Ice doesn't make or break the milkshake or any other type of blender recipe.

A milk may have fruits and/or any vegetables in it. That makes no difference in whether it is considered a milk shake or smoothie. But it must contain any milk liquid product.

What is a Smoothie?

The base for any smoothie is simply any fruit or/and vegetable juice but no milk. Some believe that ever if a smoothie does have milk in it it will be considered a smoothie. That is not true. How much ice you put in or how little has nothing to do with smoothies either. A smoothie must have any fruit or vegetable in it with juices.

That is the main reason why smoothies are considered "healthy". A vegetarian or vegan who does not like dairy products will have smoothies. Anyone with any dairy allergies will also prefer smoothies and not drink milk shakes.

What is a Lassi?

The base for a lassi is simply, yogurt. Usually, it does contain the fruit mango as the preferred fruit of choice with any type of yogurt in it, but mangoes are not required. If you put in a blender any fruit and add the yogurt in it, it is called lassi.

Lassi comes from India. Many Indian add yogurt to the shakes and other meals to refresh  and cool down their taste buds from the curry or other spices used in their foods. Yogurt is very soothing.

What is a frappe?

Any shake  that contains coffee in it. Usually it has already brewed strong coffee product with the same amount of dairy milk product in it.

What is a mocha?

Same as a frappe but add the chocolate. So, any shake with coffee AND chocolate in it is a "mocha".