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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 recipe is one of my new favorites! I used a Meyer lemon and less honey. This smoothie is super refreshing!
This smoothie was a real eye-opener! The peaches provided a great counterpoint, along with the honey, to the tartness of the lemon. Delicious, but really perks your eyes open!
This is a really fine lemon tasting smoothie. Very refreshing and I consider it a “pick-me-up”. I think it would be even better drinking it in the heat of summer.
Zesty! I feel like there is a party going on in my system. I think I am going to get alot accomplished the rest of the day.
This was the least favorite of the smoothies so far in the 10 day challenge. The frozen peaches made the honey harden, then the honey got stuck to the side of the blender container and was difficult to mix in. It was pretty liquid-y, sour, and spicy. (Oops…I drank it during a Zoom meeting, and everyone saw my sour / yucky face. :D) The ingredients are very nutritious, though.
WOO HOO!
Today’s drink, the ‘Perfect Lemon Smoothie’ will definitely wake up those sour receptors on you tongue, in a delightful way!
It is a refreshing Smoothie that I will especially look forward to drinking on some of the hot summer days here in Oklahoma!
This lemon smoothie is actually one of my favorites. So refreshing! If it’s too tart for you, just add a little more honey or fruit to sweeten it up.
This is a very refreshing smoothie. I love the tartness and bite from the ginger. It is great drink for cold and flu season.
WOWZA!!!! I love the brightness of this one. This will cure whatever ails you haha. Love the color, the flavor and it’s one you drink slowly. This will be a regular one on my list.
Whoa. Pucker power.
This was so bright and tart but I love tart things! Even my 13 month old liked it! I didn’t taste any peach but still liked it. I feel like it belongs on a Summer Smoothie Challenge!
Wow! I’ve never had a smoothie as vibrant and full flavored as this one. I love all of the ingredients separately so was excited to try this one. I may have overdid it with the ginger do it did overpower the other ingredients a bit. Overall a winner for me.
This smoothie was delicious! The tangy lemon was balanced well with the peaches. A bright and sunny part of my day!
Ours came out very lemony. I loved it though. We added some spinach and mango in the end. I loved all the healthy ingredients in this one!
Really like this one! Tart and refreshing. Will probably like it even better in the summer.
Wow what a bright refreshing smoothie. Too bad it was 26 degrees outside. I see this as a hot summer morning favorite.