When the good folks at Chiquita asked if I'd like to review their frozen smoothies, I was all, "Um, of course..." as we are a big smoothie making household. I mean, someone is making them all the time (with varied results, I might add).

And when the offer came with an Oster Fusion Blender, and an Oster Blend and Go Cup, then it was sealed as we (and by "we" I mean the shorter residents of the house) are forever burning out blenders.

Samples of each flavor soon arrived in the mail and we went at it. They flavors come in cans, much like frozen fruit juice. Each 12oz can makes three eight-ounce smoothies when blended with ice and water.

They are fruit based smoothies rather than creamy, ice cream like ones that you might get at a smoothie place, and I'm experiementing with adding milk and yogurt and such. The Chiquita Frozen Fruit Smoothies website (has sound) website has some recipe ideas.

The Chiquita smoothies are easy to make. As a matter of fact, 12 year old Busy Boy did the first honors. The kids loved them and they come in four flavors: Strawberry Banana, Banana Colada, Peach Mango and Mixed Berry.

In the nutrition department, Chiquita Frozen Smoothies provides 100% of the RDV of Vitamin C and at least 1/2 cup of fruit per serving. Calories range from just 115 to 125 calories per serving, depending on the flavor.

By the way, you can enter to win the blender as described above as well as a tropical vacation from Chiquita in the Chiquita™ Smoothies Tropical Smooth-stakes. There's even a Chiquita Smoothie Blog and you can follow them on Twitter (no idea why it's private, Chiquita?) and Facebook.

Look for Chiquita Frozen Smoothies in the frozen food aisle with a suggested retail price of $2.69 per can (less than a dollar per serving). We'll be having these a lot this summer!

This post courtesy of Chiquita. The opinions are my own. No payment or compensation, other than product samples as described above, was received for this post.