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
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 lemon peeled
- ½ cup water
- 1 tbsp 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.
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.
So happy with the flavor of this Lemon Smoothie. It is refreshing like lemonade, but has all the good stuff!
This is one of my favorite smoothies!
I love all things lemon and turmeric❤️Really delicious!
This is an interesting smoothie, at first I didn’t like it. The more I sipped on it, the more I started to enjoy it. It has a unique taste, weirdld addictive and very refreshing.
My 11 year old weighed in to say it was weird flavor, the worst one I have ever made and asked me not to make it for him again.
We’re so glad you grew to love this one Tina! I have a feeling we’ll win over that pre-teen of yours in time too… 😉 Happy blending!
Love love love. Definitely going to be a go to especially to avoid going completely under the weather. The combo of lemon and ginger is a fav for tea already. So nice to have it in a smoothie form.
Way to sour for me. Especially first thing in the morning. I think I put way to much ginger in it.
This smoothie has a winning combination of flavors. So refreshing.
Very different than the other smoothies! I added a 1/2 tsp chunk of fresh ginger and it was too much for me. I’ll make again with less ginger because I think I’ll enjoy it!
This is the smoothie I was most looking forward to making. So different from what I usually do. It does not disappoint. Great tangy flavour. Beautiful colour.
This one is good, but puckery. I used coconut water instead of regular water.
I really liked this. I didn’t have peaches so I used apples instead. The flavour is really delicious!
Wendy, apples & lemons are the BEST! When I juice apples, I always juice a slice of lemon with it.
Not my favorite. I usually have a green smoothie in the morning, and this one just didn’t measure up. Too tart! I had to add extra peaches and honey.
A little tart for me. I like the flavor so I might try again but add 1/2 banana or only use 1/2 lemon.
OMG, this one is soooo yummy! I added protein for breakfast, so refreshing!
A nice change of pace! I was nervous about the turmeric, but the lemon did its job to mute turmeric’s strong flavor. The taste of ginger has grown on me over the past couple of years, so I’ve grown to enjoy its spiciness. This will definitely wake you up in the morning!
Wow, this one is definitely one that brings tears to my eyes and makes my lips pucker! I’m not really a fan of this one as much as most of the other so far. It was way too tart for my liking. I do love lemon and all of the other things in it, however, I think that instead of adding honey, I would add a date or two next time and perhaps only half of a lemon as a whole one is way too powerful for me.
Day 4 Lemon smoothie–WOWIE ZOWIE! The best yet! Definitely a keeper for my whole family!