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Pucker up and sip on this lovely lemon smoothie. Learn how to make a lemon smoothie with ease and enjoy all the brightness these vibrant fruits have to offer.
This vibrant and refreshing smoothie is just what your body needs to stay energized and healthy. Frozen peaches, lemon and honey as well as ginger and turmeric are blended into a nutritious drink. It even tastes like a blast of citrusy sunshine. Just 5 wholesome ingredients (plus water) are needed to learn how to make a lemon smoothie, and drink to your health.
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Health Benefits of a Lemon Peach Smoothie
Lemon: This smoothie calls for a whole lemon without the rind. Lemon flesh provides fiber to help you feel full longer. Lemons also give this smoothie a dose of vitamin C, which is just what your body needs to fend off both cold and flu viruses.
Peaches: Peaches are in the stone fruit family, and stone fruit gets its name from the hard, inner seed. They are an excellent source of vitamin C to support a healthy immune system. Peaches may also prevent certain types of cancer and aid in digestion.
Honey: Honey not only adds natural sweetness to this lemon smoothie, it’s also a natural energy booster. Look for raw honey in the baking aisle of your grocery store. Unlike pasteurized honey, Raw honey does not undergo the heating process, and all of the nutrients are preserved. Raw honey has antioxidant and natural anti-bacterial properties that can help improve digestive system as well as help you stay healthy.
Ginger: Ginger contains the anti-inflammatory compound gingerol. Ginger also helps promote healthy digestion, lower blood pressure, and increased immunity. Peel the skin from the ginger with a sharp paring knife before grating the flesh.
Turmeric: Turmeric contains curcumin, a powerful anti-inflammatory compound. The medicinal effects of turmeric work at the molecular level to tame inflammation that leads to diseases like heart disease, cancer, metabolic syndrome, and Alzheimer’s. Turmeric delivers antioxidants for boosting your immune system. If you don’t have access to fresh turmeric for your lemon smoothie, then you can swap in dried powdered turmeric. If using fresh, then use about a ½ tablespoon-sized knob. Peel the turmeric first, then grate before adding to the blender.
How to remove the rind from a lemon
- Wash and dry the lemon before removing the peel.
- Using a vegetable peeler, peel the rind (like you would an apple). Leaving as much of the white pith on the lemon as possible. This has the most vitamix C of the entire lemon!
- Discard the rind and cut the lemon into quarters. This fleshy part of the lemon contains the fiber, and adding this to your smoothie will keep you feeling full longer.
How to Make a Lemon Smoothie
Combine the frozen peaches, lemon, honey, ginger and turmeric in a high-power blender. Blend until creamy and smooth. Add water for a thinner consistency.
Make this immune-boosting lemon peach smoothie part of your weekly breakfast routine. Get healthy and energized as you sip on this delicious and wholesome smoothie.
Boosting with protein
If you’re looking to turn this smoothie into a meal, then I recommending boosting it with a plant-based protein powder. My protein powder recipe offers 10 grams of plant based protein, along with 4 grams of healthy fat and 7 grams of fiber.
Boosting smoothies like this lemon smoothie helps keep you full longer, as well as helps the body turn the natural sugar from this smoothie into useable energy.
More Lemon Smoothie Recipes
I love adding lemon to my smoothies so I have some more fun recipes to share with you!
- Lemon cleanser
- Citrus kiwi smoothie
- Fruit and vegetable smoothie
- Apple celery smoothie
- Immune boost smoothie
- Spinach orange smoothie
If you blended a smoothie that tastes less than great, then try adding a squeeze of fresh lemon juice to it. Lemon can help brighten up that smoothie a bit, as well as bring the other flavors together.
If you find lemons a bit too tart for a smoothie, then try buying Meyer lemons. I can seriously eat these lemons by themselves, they are so sweet and juicy.
Would you please rate + review this smoothie once you make it? Your reviews help so much!
Perfect Lemon Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 lemon peeled
- ½ cup water
- 1 tbsp raw honey
- ½ inch ginger root fresh
- 1 cup peach frozen
- ½ tsp ground turmeric
- 1 serving homemade protein powder optional
Instructions
- Blend all ingredients until smooth.
- Pour into a tall glass and enjoy.
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Notes
- To make this smoothie vegan, replace honey with maple syrup.
- Meyer lemons are slightly sweeter than traditional lemons, which can help if you don’t love the pucker or a lemon.
- Use at least 1 frozen fruit for a refreshingly cool smoothie.
this was rather sour – guessing meijer lemon would have made this a little less tart? so I added double the honey and will keep on sipping……..I know the ingredients are healthy.
Tart and refreshing. This would be great on a hot summer day.
I was leery about the turmeric in this but it was not bad at all. This will be one I make again; The flavor is super fresh!
What a sunny delight to drink this smoothie. Thanks for a recipe I will certainly use again. For me, it helped to use half a lemon instead of a whole. I did use a vegetable peeler on the lemon like Jen mentioned possibly in the pre 10 day challenge intro live stream video. It’s a wonderful way to get lots of the whole fruit. And the peel of the organic lemon will be great in tea, water, etc.
Day 4 Lemon Smoothie was tart and not refreshing and I love lemon flavoring.
Very tart I think my lemon was on the large size. I could not taste the peaches at all but the ginger was nice.
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Love, love the flavors in this smoothie. It’s the perfect boost of Vitamin C during the winter months. It’s sunshine in a glass!
Have not had a smoothie like this – it’s different, but cool! A fresh change!
I loved the ingredients in this smoothie but it was very bitter. I left the white part on the lemons. It could’ve been the lemons I used because they were soft.
It’s a bright refreshing smoothie with a kick or maybe I added to much ginger lol. Get your body going with one.
Not a smoothie I can drink regularly, but still great to add to the rotation every few weeks.
A little too sour for me however it was full of lemon flavor lol
The Lemon Booster Smoothie was really refreshing (I forgot how sour those last lemons I bought were). I added 1/8 tsp of both Ginger Root & Turmeric, also added 1 pitted date, along with the due to the sour
Overall, this Smoothie will be in my weekly rotation.
Beautiful color smoothie. Very refreshing, but I am not a huge lemon fan. Probably will not make this one again.
Lovely!
I love lemons (drink daily in my water) as well as ginger and this was a refreshing change in my smoothie routine! Although not my favorite, I will keep in the rotation.
This one is okay…for me. It’s quite tart so if you like that, then you will love this smoothie!!! I also added in a scoop of vanilla protein powder which I think helped to reduce the tartness a bit!! Not my favourite but it certainly woke me up!!!!