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This banana smoothie recipe is one of those blends that feels both comforting and energizing. It’s naturally sweet, rich without being heavy, and made with wholesome ingredients. The frozen bananas create that milkshake-like texture, coconut yogurt adds creaminess, and collagen peptides give it a protein boost to help keep energy levels steady.
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Banana Smoothie Ingredients
This isn’t just a banana-and-milk blend. Each ingredient plays a role in making this smoothie creamy, balanced, and satisfying.
- Frozen bananas provide natural sweetness and thickness without ice. Here’s how to freeze bananas so you have them ready to blend when you are.
- Coconut yogurt adds richness and a subtle tang that keeps the smoothie from tasting flat. If your options are limited at your local grocery store make my cashew coconut yogurt.
- Cashew milk keeps everything smooth and neutral, while vanilla enhances the banana flavor without overpowering it. Pick your favorite brand or make cashew milk at home. I also use cashew milk in my blueberry smoothie if you want to make that next.
- Collagen peptides blend in seamlessly and help turn this smoothie into something that feels more like a meal than a snack.
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How to Make a Banana Smoothie
- Add the frozen bananas, coconut yogurt, cashew milk, collagen peptides, and vanilla to your blender. Blend until completely smooth and creamy. If the smoothie is too thick for your blender, add a splash more milk and blend again.
- Pour into your favorite glass and enjoy right away while it’s cold and creamy.
Ingredient Swaps
While the sugar in this recipe comes from whole food, it might be a little high for some. If you need a lower sugar option, then here are some great swaps:
- Use plain cashew yogurt or swap for 1/4 cup cauliflower.
- Swap yogurt for 2 tbs cashews.
- Swap banana with 1/4 cup cauliflower or 1/4 avocado. Here’s how to cut avocado.
Recipe Tips
- If this smoothie is too thick for your blender blades to handle, try adding a bit more liquid, stirring up the ingredients, then blending again. This should help. Using one of my recommended smoothie blenders can make this even easier.
- If cashew milk isn’t your thing, then use the plant based milk of your choice! Check out my top favorite oat milk brands and almond milk brands that will keep the smoothie creamy.
- Start with plain, unsweetened coconut yogurt to avoid added sugars.
- Make sure the collagen or protein powder you use doesn’t have any added sugar. Read the label on the yogurt you use as well! There are many great plant based yogurt brands on the market now, yet lots are loaded with added sugar. For tips on putting it all together, check out my guide on how to make a smoothie.
- Prepping frozen meal prep smoothie packs ahead also saves produce!
More Banana Smoothies To Try
I know that bananas are a polarizing fruit. People either love ’em or hate ’em. If you enjoy bananas in your smoothies, then check out some other delicious fruit smoothies below:
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Creamy Banana Smoothie (Easy 5-Minute Recipe)
Ingredients
- 2 bananas frozen
- ½ cup coconut yogurt plain
- 1 cup cashew milk
- 1 serving collagen peptides
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Instructions
- Blend all ingredients until smooth
- Pour into your favorite glass and enjoy!
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Notes
- To make this smoothie vegan, swap 1 scoop of collagen powder with 1 serving of homemade protein powder.
- To reduce the natural fruit sugars, use 1/4 avocado and 1 banana. You can also check out my guide on how to cut avocado.
- You can swap in any kind of yogurt, just choose one that’s plain or with limited sugar.
- The cashews can be swapped for almonds or oats.
- The cashew milk can be swapped out for the non-dairy milk of your choice
Nutrition
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Leave a review for a chance to win signed copies of my cookbooks!Common Questions
Yes, just make sure that smoothie is full of only whole food ingredients. No fillers, chemicals, added sugar, or fake ingredients!
I recommend changing up your daily shake or smoothie, so you can benefit from a variety of fruits and veggies. Bananas are a great regular addition though!
Bananas are a great source of fiber, and often help settle stomach issues naturally.
No! Well… it depends what you put in them. Strawberry banana is a popular smoothie flavor at restaurants, yet those smoothies are usually pre-made mixes full of processed sugar and chemicals. Stick to strawberry banana smoothies with real, whole food ingredients and soak in all the benefits.
Not a favorite- I don’t like banana flavor or the taste of yogurt.
I took your advice and added some spinach, so good! I think I’ll try it with the cacao & raw cashews next time.
This smoothie is like a milkshake! It’s so good!
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Enjoying all the new recipes! Delicious!
This was a good smoothie too. 2 bananas was a little too much because of healthy issues, so I subbed one banana for a mini cucumber. I use the 1/4 cup of Dannon Light and Fit Fat free 80 cal. yogurt, Blue Diamond Almond Breeze 30cal. milk. It was so refreshing. My free had 2 shot glasses of it and thought it was great too. this is another keeper I really loved it. #Challenge Day 3
#challenge this my favorite so far. Very tasty. As a kid I used to get banana skates from Carvel and this reminds me of that but less calories!
i tried this first as written (except with 1/3c raw cauliflower), although i knew i wanted to add more to it. (i even picked up dairy yogurt today and diverged from my plant based diet.) not surprisingly, it had a solid banana taste… was liquid-y enough to easily modify (i decided against frozen bananas since it’s winter!)… and is a great base. i added almonds, pecans, black walnuts, cinnamon, and freshly grated nutmeg. it was top shelf delicious!
Oh my goodness that’s good! I made it as written and it was so yummy!
Soooo creamy loved it
thank you
The banana smoothie was good. The vanilla in the mix was just the right amount. I am getting hooked on smoothies!
Very nice creamy smoothie with a vanilla taste. I added some spinach and kale, and it was a pretty light green colour. Was gone in minutes, very tasty and no too sweet.
Serve this to the banana lovers in your life and tell them it’s a banana milkshake, they’ll LOVE it! Sometimes I don’t love strong banana flavored foods, but using Califia Farms oat milk, Fage 2% Greek yogurt, and the vanilla extract really make a delicious ultra creamy smoothie.
That was a good suggestion. I added some frozen cauliflower and spinach to bulk it out a bit. The result was a warm, vibrant green drink with the taste of banana. That was slightly disconcerting, but tasty.
I also added a couple pinches of sea-salt and a pinch cinnamon to punch it up. (I thought about cayenne instead of cinnamon.)
Yum!
This was a tasty and filling smoothie. I cut back on the banana and added some greens.
I added cacao powder w acai and goji which was good– in addition to frozen strawberries and bananas and my usual triomega blend, hemp seeds and protein. I should have stopped there!!! It was the arugula that threw it over the the edge. My bad
Love this banana smoothie!!
Very mild and yummy. I like the idea of adding cinnamon or peanut butter…anything you’d want. It isn’t necessary as it is good as is.
I really enjoyed this one, I substituted small amount of avacodo for the banana, added some cauliflower and chia seeds, Excellent flavor! Felt like adding some Kahlua but didn’t want to ruin the challenge..lol.
#Challenge – Day 3 completed. The smoothie was so creamy and delicious. The vanilla extract gave a nice flavor to it. I added fresh spinach, flaxseed, basil seeds and Hemp Protein + Fiber as I am swapping my meals with a smoothie.
Well…no bananas of course as I don’t prefer them in my smoothies! I swapped with peanut butter instead of another fruit. Added my Toasted Grahams protein powder and yummmmmy!! It’s like a drinking a healthy milkshake after giving it a good blend!