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Our Spinach Strawberry Banana Smoothie includes iron-rich spinach and ruby red berries full of antioxidants. It’s completely plant-based, too!
The most popular smoothie combo might be strawberry banana. It’s a blender classic! Since this classic combo is so popular, I set out to create a dairy-free and plant-powered version. My spinach strawberry banana smoothie is equal parts sweet, delicious AND healthy! I can’t wait for you to give this delightful smoothie a blend.
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Ingredients in a Strawberry Banana Smoothie
This smoothie is super simple to make; it’s only four ingredients! Here’s what I blended it:
- Almond Milk: I love adding non-dairy milk to smoothies as a way to boost nutrition and the creamy factor. Use these almond milk brands or make almond milk at home, whichever you prefer!
- Spinach: This strong leafy green is loaded with nutrients PLUS provides fiber to help your body break down the natural fruit sugars in the smoothie.
- Strawberries: The antioxidant powerhouse of this smoothie, and a great way to add vitamins A and C to your day.
- Banana: A creamy addition that is slightly sweet and helps this smoothie blend well.
As always, feel free to add a scoop of homemade protein powder to give this smoothie a protein and healthy fat boost. Doing so gives you extra energy, keeps you full longer and is a great way to turn this smoothie into a meal.
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Adding Leafy Greens to a Smoothie
You might wonder why adding leafy green vegetables to your daily smoothie is important. I mean, you’re already using whole fruits and plant-based liquid bases, why add greens?
Leafy greens provide the fiber needed to help your body break down the natural glucose found in sugar. I love fruit smoothies, yet many of us have a hard time drinking straight fruit and not feeling sluggish a few hours later.
Leafy greens like spinach help slow down the body’s absorption of the natural fruit sugar, giving us fuel without the sugar crash.
How to make Spinach Strawberry Banana Smoothie
This spinach strawberry banana smoothie is super easy to make, yet for the best results, be sure to follow my steps:
Step 1: Blend your spinach and almond milk until there are no leafy chunks left. The time this takes may vary depending on what type of blender you have.
Step 2: Add the remaining fruit ingredients and blend again until smooth. If you don’t have a high-powered blender, allow the frozen strawberries to thaw a bit before adding them to the blender. This will give you the best shot at a creamy result.
Recipe Tips
- This smoothie uses plant-based milk and banana to help thicken it, yet it might not be as thick as you like. No problem! Follow my guide on how to make a smoothie thicker.
- Of you’re new to smoothies, my how to make a smoothie guide is a great place to start.
- Need a new blender? Grab one of these blenders for smoothies for easy blending.
- Save time by prepping ingredients and saving them, ready to go in my frozen meal prep smoothie packs.
More Delicious Green Smoothie Recipes
Green smoothies provide so much delight and nutrition to my day and I love sharing my recipes with you! Here are a few of my go-to smoothies, feel free to grab one and get blending.
- Best Green Smoothie: The first smoothie I made and fell in love with in one cup!
- Avocado Banana Smoothie: An epically creamy smoothie
- Blueberry Spinach Smoothie: A taste of Summertime in each sip
- Meal Replacement Smoothie: This is a fan-favorite recipe!
- Mango Kale Smoothie: My top tropical smoothie, perfect for a sweet tooth
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Spinach Strawberry Banana Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 cup spinach
- 1 cup almond milk unsweetened
- 1 cup strawberries frozen
- ½ banana
Instructions
- Place spinach and almond milk in blender. Puree until smooth.
- Add remaining fruit and blend again.
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Notes
- Use at least one frozen fruit to make the smoothie cold or serve over ice.
- Swap spinach with leafy green vegetables of your choice.
- Swap strawberries with the berry of your choice.
- To make this low sugar smoothie even lower in natural sugar, swap 1/2 banana with 1/4 avocado. Learn how to cut avocado here. You can also add in other low sugar fruits of your choice.
- Freeze bananas ahead of time to they don’t go bad, and to have them ready to go.
Nutrition
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Leave a review for a chance to win signed copies of my cookbooks!Common Questions
Yes! Any smoothie made with whole food, plant-based ingredients and leafy greens is a great addition to your day. It will give you extra vitamins and minerals (always a plus) as well as natural energy that leaves you feeling refreshed and not sluggish.
Definitely! Always make sure to wash your smoothie ingredients well before adding them to your blender, yet raw spinach (and other raw leafy greens) are great smoothie ingredients.
It can be! My strawberry banana smoothie uses spinach as the leafy green and boasts 119% of the RDV of vitamin C, 57% of the RDV of vitamin A and 36% of the RDV of calcium.
Super yummy!!! My husband even loved it and he doesn’t like green smoothies!!!
I love this simple combo of strawberries, banana and almond milk. To increase the strawberry flavor, I find it helps to either use some fresh or defrost half if using all frozen.
Day 10: Strawberry Blast
This was a little thin for me. I added frozen avocado to thicken and frozen grapes to sweeten. YUM
Who does not love a strawberry smoothie?? It is a classic and I love it! It’s smooth and delicious and I can drink this everyday!!
Such a classic, with a healthier twist. So creamy, I could definitely drink this one everyday!
I totally loved this one, thick, creamy, and delish!
Great basic green smoothie. I used both frozen greens and strawberries so I needed a bit more liquid to blend. Very tasty!!
Not my favorite but still a perfect healthy late morning snack
I really enjoyed the strawberry blast this morning. I did a combo of strawberries and raspberries. It was a little less sweet than some of them which is perfect for me!
Always a classic!
My favorite!
I used to get strawberry banana smoothies from Orange Julius at the mall all the time – this is like that smoothie, but SO much healthier! I’m reminiscing back to when I was a kid, love it!
Easy, fast, delicious and nutritious!!!! So so good!!!
One of my favorites! Like a strawberry milkshake! Love love love my daily green smoothies.
So far I am enjoying all of the smoothies… This one is delicious as well. Are used a coconut almond milk blend as the base. Delicious!
I’ve always loved strawberry banana flavors and this makes it even better. I didn’t have almond milk so subbed with walnut milk. Still delicious!
I forgot to leave my star rating
LOVE this combination, never tried it with almond milk before though, and was pleasantly surprised!
Strawberry and banana, a great combo!!
Love love love I am converted
Yumm … strawberry and banana plus spinach, can’t go wrong with this!!