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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.
I was really looking forward to this Lemon smoothie when I saw it in the challenge. It did not disappoint me. =) Yummy…It is delicious and refreshing. I will keep this recipe around for sure.
Refreshing with a tang. Definitely an acquired taste
This smoothie is so bright and tasty! I love it so much with the burst of flavor that hits your mouth. This has to be one of my absolute favorites of all time! I used a smidge more ginger because I love the health benefits of it.
Try this one any time of year for a flavor bomb in your mouth!
My husband and I both enjoyed this smoothie. Ginger was probably the most predominant flavor. I feel like this would be a great smoothie to drink if you felt like you were coming down with a cold.
Such an eye opener and mouth zinger.
Num!
OK so think this would have been better if I just juiced the lemon since it had bits of the tough sections in it still. It was a bit of an applesauce texture maybe I needed a smidgen more water not sure. The flavor was interesting but not bad just not quite what I was expecting. Not sure if we’ll try this one again as I like Smoothies that can be my meal and this is more of a healthy juice. Kids were not into this one.
Good but a little tangy, which is to be expected for lemon. It had great flavors which were different from an usual smoothie. Don’t think I’ll make this one again.
OMG. I LOVE THIS SMOOTHIE.
The zesty lemon and the ginger. Wow. Will definitely make this again
Sour!!
This is not a new recipe for us, since we are long-time rawkstars…! We like it a lot and it is on our regular Saturdays’ rotation. What was unusual for us – as part of the 10-day challenge, was to have this smoothie during the week, since I normally keep weekdays for green ones. We like this one a lot; it is bright, tangy, fresh: it is like drinking a jar of sunshine! Plus I love the addition of the turmeric as an anti-inflammatory boost.
This is a very refreshing smoothie I will definitely make this a lot during the summer months. My only issue is that it’s not very fulfilling it’s more of a light pick me up smoothie
This one isn’t love as it’s a bit tart but I think with some tweaking it could make a wonderful base for some much needed vitamin c boost .
I want to call this smoothie… You are my sunshine ! So delightfully bright & yellow and that ginger wakes you up! I wasn’t going to add protein but my first taste was a bit too puckery for me . So I added a scoop of vanilla protein powder and it was perfect.
Yummy! I love the different flavors in this smoothie.
The Meyer lemon, ginger and turmeric mix nicely with a little hint of peach. I will definitely make this again.
Not a bad smoothie, but not a favourite. A little too tart for me. I will try again though maybe with an orange.
I love this smoothie! The lemon adds a bright and tart flavor that is delicious.
I didn’t like this one. Too much ginger.
A little too tart, but I did use a really large lemon. I added a little extra honey and collagen powder.