Hot Summer days allow us to be lazy in the kitchen without loosing the interest of refreshing drinks and healthy food. Let’s combine them both here and share with you my top 10 healthy smoothie recipes on the bog!
Smoothies are my favorite drinkable healthy food that I like to enjoy at anytime of the day, starting with breakfast and sometimes as a kick after training, and even as a sweet healthy desserts after a meal. I have many different smoothie recipes on the blog and I regularly create many different ones while being offline. Today, I want to share with you my very favorite ones, that you can easily test and taste until the end of summer (and even later)!
1. Sunrise Apricot Strawberry Smoothie
This sunrise apricot-strawberry smoothie is full of vitamins that are really good for your body. While both apricots and strawberries provide a great quantity of vitamin C, known for its antioxidant properties, the apricots are also a good source of vitamin A, which is actually really good for your skin! Give this Summer mood sunrise smoothie a try and let your skin shine!
2. Tropical Green Detox Smoothie
Green smoothies are the perfect way to detoxify your body. It’s also a great way to eat veggies. Although most people like fruit, many have trouble getting their daily requirement of veggies. With a green smoothie, the taste of the greens is hidden by the taste of the fruit (here with tropical fruits such as mango and pineapple), so you don’t even notice the veggies are there. Green smoothies are also low in calories while very filling. Because they contains high amounts of water and fiber, they will make you feel as if you just ate a full meal.
3. Vegan Vanilla Cashew Smoothie
Combining both oats and cashews together, this smoothie makes a very nourishing drink, just perfect to boost your morning. While oats are loaded with dietary fiber, cashew nuts are naturally cholesterol-free and contain good amounts of heart-healthy fats, fiber, and protein. The addition of natural vanilla gives it a very sweet texture. Just delicious!
4. Tropical Pineapple Coconut Smoothie
This delicious tropical smoothie will take you to the beach and make you dream of exotic destinations. The coconut will provides you with healthy fat, while pineapple is an excellent source of vitamin C and dietary fiber. Its health and medicinal benefits include their ability to improve respiratory health, cure coughs and cold, improve digestion, improve the immune system, and it even helps you to loose weight. My favorite summer treat!
5. Creamy Banana & Peanut Butter Smoothie
Loaded with energetic ingredients only, it’s the perfect drink to enjoy after training or before a long and busy morning. It will literally boost your day! Banana, milk and peanut butter, that’s pretty much all you need. And yes, peanut butter is actually healthy: it contains a great amount of protein as well as potassium, which lower the risk of high blood pressure, stroke and heart disease. It also has fiber, healthy fats and magnesium to fortify your bones and muscles, and even has vitamin E and antioxidants. A bombastic smoothie!
6. Blackberry Chia Seed Smoothie
Chia seed are known to be packed with great benefits, such as protein and fibers. They also don’t have much of a taste, which make them a great way to amp up the nutrients of a salad or of a delicious smoothie like this blackberry smoothie. Another thing to know about chia seeds: they keep you full for quite a while since they are such a good source of fiber.
7. Raw Chocolate Almond Smoothie
If you are an adept of raw food, this smoothie is definitely for you. No processed food or cooked ingredients, just natural almond butter and raw chocolate. Add a ripe banana, and you will get a great amount of potassium, an essential nutrient which is needed for the proper function of all living cells.
8. Vegan Fig & Almond Smoothie
Fresh figs are among my favorite seasonal fruits, I just love them. Combine them in a delicious almond smoothie to get even more healthy benefits in one drink. Like figs, almond are a very good source of fiber, and they also bring you a great amount of protein, magnesium and vitamin E, which protect your cell membranes from damage.
9. Green Avocado Smoothie Bowl
Avocado is a magic ingredient and it makes this green smoothie bowl sweet and irresistible. With very little sugar, this smoothie bowl is a good source of healthy fat, the one that has a positive impact on your good cholesterol, will keep you full for a couple of hours, and prevent you from some huge cravings in between two frugal meals that often create frustration and make you more vulnerable to unhealthy snacks. Topped with some raspberries, it provides you with vitamin C.
Carob has excellent nutritional value. Along with up to 80% protein, it contains Magnesium, Calcium, Iron, Phosphorus, Potassium Manganese, Copper, Nickel and vitamins A, B, B2, B3, and D. And that’s not all! Carob also naturally contains polyphenols, which help lower blood cholesterol levels, and is a natural antioxidant, protecting your body from damage from free radicals and environmental toxins. In this smoothie bowl recipe, I mixed carob powder with a little bit of unsweetened cocoa powder (100% cocoa) to make it a little bit sweeter and even more flavorful.
For even more inspiration, check my article 12 Healthy Breakfast Recipes, which is among the most popular articles on the blog so far!
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