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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.
You could just taste the immunity boosters in this Lemon Smoothie with honey and turmeric! The whole lemon made it a bit puckery. I still thought it was very good.
Yummy lemon flavor. Enjoyed the tartness and the added ginger. Thank you
This smoothie was pleasantly tart and very refreshing. I used a Meyer lemon with some of the zest attached, oat milk instead of water, plain nonfat Greek yogurt for protein to make it a meal replacement, about 1 tsp extra honey to offset the tartness from the yogurt, and 1 Tbsp hemp hearts for a phosphorus boost. It was really good! It is so refreshing that I will be making it frequently during the warmer months.
Love all things lemon!
I liked it but was a little tart/bitter. Will try using not as much pith next time. All in all great anti-inflammatory benefits!
Lemony taste! Mine did not turn out as yellow because I ended up blending the whole fruit. I had some in the freezer I needed to use. The smoothie is a great way to get vitamin C, other nutritious vitamins, and anti-inflammatory spices.
Refreshingly Tart!
I really enjoyed the Lemon smoothie today. I used frozen pineapple as didn’t find peaches, a bit of chia seeds and some fresh mint. Garnished with leftover blackberries. I tasted it and it was sweet enough without the honey so I left it out. Also I only left the pith on half of the lemon so it was not bitter at all. Definitely something different and worth mixing into my rotation.
Sadly I blew out my Vitamix – it was old anyway – so this was a lovely sendoff to my old friend!
This was way too tart, per the recipe, for me, so I added another tablespoon of honey. I also made it a meal replacement with 1/4 cup of Rawkstar Protein Powder. With all that, it’s a good tasting pick-me-up.
This one was missing something for me. It was horrible by any means but it wasn’t fantastic. I think I’ll do mango next time
I tried this smoothie but used ruby red grapefruit instead of the lemon. I have a grapefruit tree in my backyard! I also added some chia and hemp seeds for protein. Very tasty!
This drink was refreshing and tart the honey helped with the tartness. I will definitely make this again. I felt as if it cleansed my body.
Little tart for my liking but pretty good. I believe I prefer orange over the lemon flavor. Added spinach, banana and protein mix.
This was my fav of the entire week! Love the kick of ginger!
I found this one quite tart, and tended to burn in my stomach. (But I’m not a lemon fan). The vitamin C is a bonus, and if you’re a singer it’s great for the voice.
I didn’t have peaches, so I used 1/2 cup mango and 1/2 cup pineapple. And 1/2 tsp turmeric. Very different flavor. At first I thought it was too “spicy”, but then I started to like it. I’ll have to try it again…and with peaches :-). I love that I’m getting to try different flavors.
So bright and smoothe!