15 Easy and Healthy Green Smoothies

Supercharged Kale-Avocado Smoothie Recipe

This hydrating smoothie is jam-packed with nutrients, delivering one-third your daily goal of vitamin A and 100% of vitamin K—two important nutrients many of us don't get enough of. Matcha green tea powder delivers a jolt of caffeine without the jittery side effects, helping you power through your holiday to-do list with sustained energy and alertness.

Kale-Ginger Smoothie Recipe

Smoothies are a great way to front-load your day with produce and nutrition. Just one serving of this power breakfast offers about two-thirds of the day's calcium and nearly a quarter of potassium in a low-calorie package. Chia seeds amp up fiber and protein, plus they're one of the richest plant sources of heart-healthy alpha-linoleic acid (an omega-3 fatty acid).

Ginger Colada Green Smoothie: "A Piña Colada with a Gingery Kick" Recipe

Experience the sweet and spicy flavors of the Caribbean in ten minutes flat, even if you’re stuck at your desk. Loaded with nutritious ingredients like fresh ginger, kale, spinach, and hemp seeds, this clean, green smoothie is the perfect way to jumpstart your morning. Dana Shultz, author of <em>Minimalist Baker’s Everyday Cooking</em>, makes this refresher almost every day. She calls it a ginger colada because it reminds her of a piña colada with a gingery kick. 

Ginger Colada Green Smoothie

Notes:

For spinach and kale, Shultz likes to buy hers pre­-washed and bagged and stored in the freezer. That way it stays fresh and is always available when she’s craving a smoothie. It also helps keep the mixture colder and slightly creamier.

Reprinted from Minimalist Baker’s Everyday Cooking by arrangement with Avery, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, A Penguin Random House Company. Copyright © 2016, Dana Shultz.

Avocado and Spinach Smoothie Recipe

Alkaline-Boosting Smoothie Recipe

Smoothies: Boost the health benefits of your fast with our liquid meals. Just blend and go! 243 calories and under. This healthy recipe is featured in the smoothie section of the new 5:2 Starter's Guide to The 2-Day Diet. The book provides a selection of over 100 tasty recipes to help you meet the daily 500 calorie allotment for the 2 days of intermittent fasting, as required by the 5:2 Diet.

Tropical Smoothie Recipe

Smoothies: Boost the health benefits of your fast with our liquid meals. Just blend and go! 243 calories and under. This healthy recipe is featured in the smoothie section of the new 5:2 Starter's Guide to The 2-Day Diet. The book provides a selection of over 100 tasty recipes to help you meet the daily 500 calorie allotment for the 2 days of intermittent fasting, as required by the 5:2 Diet.

Ultimate Green Smoothie Recipe

Smoothies: Boost the health benefits of your fast with our liquid meals. Just blend and go! 243 calories and under. This healthy recipe is featured in the smoothie section of the new 5:2 Starter's Guide to The 2-Day Diet. The book provides a selection of over 100 tasty recipes to help you meet the daily 500 calorie allotment for the 2 days of intermittent fasting, as required by the 5:2 Diet.

Green Smoothie Bowl Recipe

Lose weight the 5:2 way. This healthy quick and easy recipe is featured in the breakfast section of the new 5:2 Starter's Guide to The 2-Day Diet. The book provides a selection of over 100 tasty recipes that meet the daily 500 calorie allotment for the 2 days of intermittent fasting, as required by the 5:2 Diet. 

Power Green Smoothie Recipe

Glowing Green Smoothie Dr. Oz Recipe

1 1/2 cups water 1 head organic romaine lettuce, chopped (about 6 cups) This smoothie supplies you with the energy, vitamins and minerals to give your skin a youthful, sexy glow. 2 stalks organic celery (about 1 1/2 cups) 7 cups of chopped spinach 1 organic apple or pear, cored and chopped 1 organic banana 2 tbsp of fresh lemon juice

Sunrise Smoothie Recipe

We tried this smoothie with 2% reduced-fat milk but liked it much better with the soy milk. Any kind of fruit will work--try strawberries or peaches.

Cucumber Smoothies Recipe

Yogurt drinks are popular across the Middle East and South Asia. We like ours with puréed cucumber and herbs, plus a spritz of club soda. If the cucumber peels and seeds are tender, they don't need to be removed.

Green Tea-Kiwi and Mango Smoothie Recipe

Make a colorful and healthy smoothie by pureeing mango, kiwifruit and spinach wtih yogurt and honey and spooning into glasses in two layers.

We know. You’re probably thinking, WTF, avocado and coffee are two things that should never go together. But they absolutely should—especially when it comes to coffee avocado smoothies. Mixing avocado and coffee is not a new idea. Es alpuket, which directly translates to “ice avocado," is a delicacy sold by street vendors in Indonesia. The coffee avocado drink is made of avocado, coffee, sweetened condensed milk, coconut milk, and ice, all blended together. Feel free to use different types of milk like whole, soy, or almond instead of coconut when you make it at home.

Your brain might tell you that you’re drinking avocado, but your tastebuds will beg to differ. Although the coffee avocado smoothie looks mean and extremely green, the avocado isn’t overpowering and is actually masked by the coffee. The fruit lends a creamy texture to the drink and forms the perfect consistency to resemble a thick milkshake, or a frappe. Toss all the ingredients together in a blender and drink up.