You may have seen many photos of people sipping those colorful and delicious power smoothies, but you haven’t tried them for yourself.
Smoothies are delicious concoctions of fruits and vegetables. You can mix and match any fruit or vegetable you want.
Usually, these smoothies should have a base of yogurt, milk, ice, or just frozen ingredients. Depending on your preference, you can use sweeteners such as honey.
If this is your first time trying these smoothies, here are 15 recipes to try.
Orange Creamsicle Smoothie
The iconic childhood treats the Orange Creamsicle has now come to us as a healthy smoothie. Excited? You should!
It’s loaded with fiber, vitamin C, thiamin, folate, and antioxidants. It takes just five minutes to whip up using frozen bananas, coconut cream, oranges, pitted dates, and orange juice. Yum! Your kids will surely love this!
Rainbow Smoothie
For those who are looking for a smoothie recipe with avocado, then try a rainbow smoothie. Not only is this drink beautiful, but it’s also brimming with healthy ingredients.
It’s filled with avocado, sweet potato, bananas, strawberries, blackberries, and other yummy produce. It’s easy to make and fantastic to drink with flexibility in the recipe, as you can swap out your favorite fruits to get the same hues. It’s one of the unique smoothie recipes that you’ll come to love.
Apple Pie Smoothie
Apple pie is perfect at Thanksgiving dinner, at a summertime picnic topped with a scoop of ice cream, and as a smoothie. But did you know that this version is sweet, creamy, and actually healthy?
It’s all the deliciousness of a slice of pie but without the guilt. Try it and taste it for yourself.
Summertime Fruit Smoothie
With a Greek yogurt base and ice, this refreshing smoothie takes many of summer’s favorite fruits and combines them into one delicious drink. The flavors of peaches, raspberries, pineapple, watermelon, banana, and raspberry honey hold their own in this smoothie that you’ll love.
Cherry Fruit Smoothie
You just need four ingredients for this refreshing smoothie. It’s perfect for a hot summer’s day.
To make this Cherry Fruit smoothie, just combine apple juice, raspberries, cherries, and raspberry sherbet until well blended. They’re so good!
Green Tea & Berry Power Smoothies
If you are looking for low sugar smoothie recipes, start with a Green Tea & Berry smoothie. Not only is it delicious, but it’s also low in sugar and is full of benefits.
Green tea boasts an abundance of health benefits, so when combined with blueberries, strawberries, and chia seeds with a base of Greek yogurt, this smoothie bursts with flavor and nutrition.
Raspberry Mango Smoothie
Some may ask, do you need ice to make a smoothie? Not really.
Though, it’s better to have cold and refreshing smoothies, right? If you don’t have ice, you can use frozen fruits.
Try out this recipe. With equal parts of frozen tart raspberries and sweet mango, this smoothie will tempt your tastebuds. For a sweeter version, add a teeny tiny bit of a sweetener.
Cucumber Melon Smoothie
Looking for refreshing smoothies? The flavor in this smoothie is refreshing and an amazing combination. It uses honeydew melon, honey, cucumbers, mint leaves, and a yogurt base with ice. It’s delicious! Adding an avocado helps make it creamier.
Peach Pie Smoothie
The sweetened fruit flavor hides the healthy spinach packed into this smoothie.
Peaches, vanilla extract, ground cinnamon, and spinach are blended in a coconut milk base. It takes a mere five minutes to whip up this tasty treat.
Raspberry Pomegranate Smoothie
Super healthy pomegranate juice combined with raspberries, a bit of brown sugar, and vanilla frozen yogurt makes a yummy summertime smoothie.
You can alter the flavor a bit by switching up the flavor of frozen yogurt from French vanilla to vanilla bean to plain vanilla.
Strawberry Carrot Smoothie
What about fruit smoothie recipes without yogurt? That’s possible. Try out this fun orange-colored smoothie.
It has a fantastic flavor with orange juice, pineapple chunks, and sliced strawberries. But sneak in carrot juice and you’ve got some healthy homerun power smoothies.
Strawberry Lime Smoothie
Strawberry yogurt and fresh strawberries with a dash of lime juice give this fruity smoothie a tasty and healthy kick. Honey and ground cinnamon give it a sweet sensation.
Strawberry Lemonade Smoothie
Lemonade actually is a versatile drink, so when you add different fruits and a crushed ice base, it becomes a tantalizing smoothie you won’t be able to put down.
Try incorporating strawberries into this drink and packs it with vitamin C, manganese, folate, and potassium.
Mango Basil Smoothie
Mango lends us an abundance of vitamin C to this drink and can be found fresh or frozen year-round.
The basil gives it an extra kick, it also includes maple syrup or agave as a natural sweetener, ground cinnamon, vanilla extract, and banana.
Banana Split Smoothies
Yes, you’ve read that one right. Don’t let the ice cream name fool you — this has healthy fruit in it and is a crowd-pleaser at summer parties.
To create this delectable smoothie, just blend bananas, pineapple, strawberries, honey, milk, and ice cubes to whip up the smoothie. Optional additions are whipped topping, chocolate syrup, and maraschino cherries to make it more like a banana split.
Takeaway
Who says power smoothies should be boring and bland? Take these 15 recipes as a teaser for all the other amazing smoothie recipes that you can create.
What are you waiting for?
Source: Respite Cafe, Spoon University, All Recipes, Taste of Home, Like Mother, Like Daughter