What are some good healthy fruit smoothie recipes?

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First, chopped fruit (one type of fruit or several) is the smoothie's fruit base. Great fruits to use are bananas, berries (including strawberries and blackberries), pineapples, mangos, and/or kiwi.





# Second, add an ingredient to the smoothie as a thickener. Good choices include low-fat yogurt, low-fat frozen yogurt, a can of frozen juice concentrate, frozen fruit, or a cup of ice. How much of these ingredients you will use depends on how thick you want your smoothie to be.





# Third, you will need a liquid so everything will blend smoothly. You can add skim milk, soy milk, fruit juice or even water (some smoothie makers use flavored water). Start with 1/4 cup and then add more if needed.





# An extra option to enhance flavor is to add a sweetner, cinnamon or vanilla extract.





# A good rule of thumb for the ingredient measurements is to make your smoothie with 1 part fruit, 1 part liquid, and 2 parts thick base. For example: for 1 smoothie (a little over 1 cup), you would use 1/4 cup fruit, 1/4 cup liquid, and 1/2 cup thickener. But these measurements are not set in stone. The great thing about smoothies is you can experiment to get exactly what you want!





Directions


Put all ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth. Serve immediately or refrigerate. You may want to serve in a chilled glass if serving immediately.





Tips


A lot of people choose to add nutritional supplements to their smoothies, such as wheat germ, Vitamin C powder or ground flaxseed. Also, if you want extra protein, add soy protein isolate or soy protein concentrate.




















Apricot Pineapple Smoothie Recipe





1/4 cup crushed pineapple


1 fresh apricot, diced


6 strawberries


1/2 banana


1 1/2 cup water


1 tbsp. skim milk powder


1 heaping tbsp. high- quality protein powder (optional)


1 tsp. flax seed oil (optional)


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In a blender, process fruit with the rest of the ingredients. Blend until thoroughly mixed and serve.








Banana-Strawberry Fruit Smoothie Recipe





1 banana, frozen


6 strawberries, frozen


1 1/4 cup water


1 tbsp. skim milk powder


1 heaping tbsp. high- quality protein powder (optional)


1 tsp. flax oil (optional)


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In a blender, process all the ingredients until thoroughly mixed and serve.








Tropical Fruit Shake





1/2 mango


2 tbsp. frozen pina coloda mix (or 1/8 tsp. natural coconut extract)


1/2 banana, frozen


4 strawberries, frozen


6 ice cubes


1 1/4 cup water


1 heaping tbsp. high- quality protein powder (optional)


1 tsp. flax oil (optional)


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In a blender, process all the ingredients until thoroughly mixed and serve.








Banana-Berry Fruit Smoothie





1/2 pear, cored


1/4 cup frozen blueberries or frozen mixed berries


1/2 banana, frozen


1 1/4 cup water


1/8 tsp. cinnamon


1 tbsp. skim milk powder


1 heaping tbsp. high-quality protein powder (optional)


1 tsp. flax oil (optional)


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In a blender, process all the ingredients until thoroughly mixed and serve.








Banana-Orange-Strawberry Fruit Shake





1/2 cup orange juice


1/2 banana, frozen


6 strawberries, frozen


1/2 cup water


1 tbsp. skim milk powder


1 heaping tbsp. high- quality protein powder (optional)


1 tsp. flax oil (optional)


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In a blender, process all the ingredients until thoroughly mixed and serve.What are some good healthy fruit smoothie recipes?
This one is really good. I've made it several times and it's good for you except for the whipping cream.





Pink Smoothie Deluxe


Makes 4 servings





2 cups frozen banana slices


1 1/2 cups frozen unsweetened strawberries (I use both sweetened and unsweetened. Depends what is on sale.)


1 cup Ruby Red grapefruit juice (I use Florida's Natural)


1 cup OJ





Combine all in blender. Puree until very smooth. Garnish with strawberry or orange twist.





I make my own whipped cream to top. You can do that by using a mixer and whipping heavy whipping cream and add 1-2 TB of sugar. Taste before you add that 2 TB of sugar. If it needs to sweetened up more add a little more sugar. Also, it whips better if you throw the attachments, bowl and cream in the freezer for about 10 minutes.





Good luck
Once my bananas are overly ripe, I peel them, break them into pieces and put the ripe bananas in small food storage bags to freeze for smoothies. I use the frozen bananas instead of ice to give the smoothie a thicker, more ice-cream like texture.





I start with the basic recipe and go from there:





Basic Frozen Banana Orange Smoothie Recipe:


Makes a thick smoothie


2 frozen bananas, broken into pieces


1 cup milk (we prefer low fat) or vanilla soy milk


1 cup orange juice








Add all ingredients into blender and blend until smooth.


Makes 2 servings.





Mango, Banana, Orange Smoothie


Add 1 cup frozen (no sugar added) mango to basic recipe


If consistency is too thick, add 1/2 cup cold water





Raspberry Orange Smoothie


Add 1 cup frozen (no sugar added) raspberries to basic recipe


If consistency is too thick, add 1/2 cup cold water





Strawberry Orange Smoothie


Add 1 cup frozen (no sugar added) strawberries to basic recipe


If consistency is too thick, add 1/2 cup cold water








If you don't have any frozen bananas, try using yogurt to thicken the smoothie:


Basic Banana Orange Smoothie Recipe:


2 bananas


1 cup low fat yogurt


1 cup orange juice


4 ice cubes





Add all ingredients into blender and blend until smooth. Add 1 cup frozen fruit as directed above for different flavors.


Makes 2 servings.





Hope this helps!


Mary


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i like mango smoothies i think they're really good





1 hand full of slightly thawed frozen mango chunks


about 1 cup of Cere mango juice or just plain mango juice of any kind


about 1 cup of frozen yogurt


some ice





put all ingredients in a blender


taste it if it's to thin add frozen yogurt or more mango


too thick add more mango juice





this makes about a tall glass of smoothie
STRAWBERRY-BLACKBERRY SMOOTHY





6-8 strawberries (fresh or frozen)


6-8 blackberries (fresh or frozen)


8 ice cubes


2 1/2 cups lowfat or non-fat milk


1 scoop whey powder





Rinse and cut tops of strawberries, and rinse blackberries. Combine all ingredients in a blender. Blend until smooth and enjoy.


Perfect for dieting, or leave out whey powder and add ice cream for a delicious smoothy drink.





Makes about 3-5 cups.
i dont use a recipe, mine turn out great, heres a few things i have made before that are delicious!


1. take one handful of strawberries and about 1/2 cup of rasberries , blend . then take just 2 scoops of ice cream and blend in with the berries . then, take about, 1/4 cup of milk and blend that, SMOOTH AND GREAT ! hope it helps :)
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If you notice most smoothie recipes include plain yogurt and whatever fruit you want. My favorite is strawberries and bananas. Just mix it up and see what fruits you like together. =)
i love to add a small splash of milk to make it creamier, frozen strawberrys, frozen blueberrys, vanila yogurt, honey, and orange juice, and a banana. My other favorite smoothie is ice, orange juice, and two bananas, its surprisingly very good
1/2 cup Vanilla SoyMilk


1 6 oz. flavored yogurt


1-2 cups frozen fruit (for sweetness and thickness)


1T Wheat Germ or Flax Seed





Blend





If using fresh fruit...use ice cubes for thickner
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Banana Smoothie


1 banana


1 c plain yogurt


1 c orange juice


Blend til smooth