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I just can’t get enough when berry season comes around. My family eats pints of berries in 1 sitting, they’re our go-to road trip snack, and I love tossing them into smoothies. This mixed berry smoothie recipe is a great low-sugar option as well as loaded with antioxidants that will leave you feeling energized, glowing and ready to tackle the day ahead.
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Recipe Ingredients
- Cherries: This pitted fruit contains 3 grams of fiber and 18% of the recommended daily intake (RDI) of vitamin C per serving. The antioxidants in cherries help control oxidative stress. Polyphenols give cherries powerful anti-inflammatory properties.
- Strawberries: This low sugar berry is also anti-inflammatory and can help lower the risk of heart disease. High in potassium, strawberries can help control blood pressure. It makes my mixed berry smoothie naturally sweet without spiking the sugar.
- Blueberries: The mighty blueberry is often touted as a superfood. 1 serving contains 4 grams of fiber, 36% of the RDI of vitamin K, 24% of the RDI of vitamin C, and 25% of the RDI of manganese. Blueberries are queen when it comes to antioxidants and can help protect against both aging and cancer.
- Banana: While people often associate bananas with high sugar content, they are actually relatively low on the glycemic index. Greener bananas contain less sugar than the yellowish brown ones. This creamy fruit also contains fiber, potassium and vitamins B6 and C.
Finally, this helps your body break down the natural fruit carbs in your smoothie, giving you long lasting energy with no sugar crash.
Mix Berry Smoothie Recipe
I call smoothies the world’s healthiest fast food because you can make a whole food, plant-based breakfast, lunch, dinner or snack in 5 minutes. Here’s how:
- Blend water + spinach starting with the blender on low, then slowly moving to high speed. Blend until no leafy chunks remain.
- Stop blending and add all fruit ingredients + boosters then blend again. Since many berries have seeds, blend a bit longer to ensure the seeds are well blended. If you aren’t using a high-powered blender, you will probably still have seeds in your finished product. If you want to pour your smoothie through a sieve into the glass, go for it!
That’s it! If your fruit is all fresh, then you may want to add an ice cube or 2 to your finished smoothie to cool it down. If you are using all frozen fruit, thaw them slightly before blending for a smoother finished product.
Feel free to swap out any of the ingredients in the below mixed berry smoothie for the berries of your choice. Smoothies are super versatile and just needs to be delicious for the person consuming it.
Berry Smoothie FAQs
They can be! Berries are naturally low in sugar, and my smoothie also has a handful of spinach which boosts the fiber. Fiber helps the body break down the natural sugar in fruit for a filling, no sugar rush snack or light meal. Berries are also loaded with antioxidants and vitamins that help the immune system.
Yes! I like the ease of making smoothies with water, yet you can definitely swap out water for the plant milk of your choice.
Smoothies alone can’t help you lose weight, yet boosting your intake of fruits and vegetables can. Berries are low in sugar, and drinking a smoothie in place of a snack or breakfast (especially if that smoothie is boosted with plant-based protein) sets the tone for your day and helps you choose healthier options through the day.
How to Make a Low-Sugar Smoothie
Fruit has carbs. These carbs are broken down between sugar and fiber. This is super important to know, because so many of us see carbs as ‘bad’ and lump fruit sugar into the same category as refined sugar.
I know that fruit sugar can affect our blood sugar, yet I also know that fiber is SUPER important in breaking down the natural sugar in the body… and our bodies need both (which is why a mixed berry smoothie recipe should be on your weekly blend list). Plus, did you know daily fruit consumption can actually combat obesity?!
If you like to keep your smoothies lower in sugar, first pick your fruits from my list of low sugar fruits. Second, use water or unsweetened plant milk as your liquid base. I know smoothies with fruit juice are delicious… yet that adds a lot of fiberless sugar. Third, boost your smoothie with my homemade protein powder. Make sure it’s sugarless, and has both protein and healthy fat.
More Berry Smoothie Recipes
I’ve got SO many berry smoothies because… well berries are delicious, smoothies are delicious, so why the heck not?! Here’s some recipe inspo for you:
- Strawberry banana smoothie
- Blackberry smoothie
- Strawberry blueberry smoothie
- Raspberry smoothie
- Berry breakfast smoothie
- Strawberry smoothie
- Berry citrus smoothie
- Blueberry spinach smoothie
- Strawberry mango smoothie
- Berry carrot smoothie
- Blueberry smoothie
- Berry banana smoothie
- Chocolate strawberry smoothie
- Cherry beet smoothie
- Almond berry smoothie
Basically if you like berries and have a blender then I’ve got a berry smoothie for you. Mix n’ match your berries to what you have on hand/prefer. Frozen berries are a great option as well; no need to spend a lot of money on fresh, out-of-season berries. Frozen berries are picked at the height of their season, then flash frozen to preserve nutrients.
When berries are in season, find a u-pick place or buy them from a local stand. That way you get the most berries for your buck. Your mixed berry smoothie tastes best with seasonal fruit.
Healthy Mixed Berry Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 cup spinach
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup cherries frozen
- ¼ cup strawberries frozen
- ¼ cup blueberries frozen
- ½ banana
- 1 serving homemade protein powder optional
Instructions
- Blend spinach and water until smooth.
- Add the remaining fruits and blend again.
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Notes
- Use at least one frozen fruit to make the green smoothie cold. Make sure to remove cherry pits before blending.
- Swap the spinach with the leafy greens of your choice.
- Instead of buy separate fresh berries you can buy a bag of mixed berries for this recipe.
I liked the taste of this one. I added chia seeds
Chia seeds are the best – antioxidants, fiber, protein – what’s not to love?!
I had frozen mixed berries from Costco that I used for this, and it was very good.
Sweet & full of nutrients. the berries and the rich deep colour.
Who knew breakfast could be so beautiful, right?!
Super good! Love cherries in smoothies for a nice burst of flavor. Added extra cherries & left out the banana then added protein, chia & ground flax for a healthy breakfast
Crazy good add-ins Clareen. Well done!
This smoothie was a little sweeter than the peach banana one, because of the different berries. I added protein powder to make it into a meal replacement. It was easy to make and I liked the different flavor.
Berries are the best!! Way to rawk it Michele!
Very yummy with the Wild Blueberries I added in.
A kale sub, so it stayed quite tangy. Will try again when I get spinach to see if I can get the sweet folks are talking about
Day 2 gone! I am from Italy and made it as a break this afternoon, we haven’t cherries yet so I swap with raspberries: very nice and super tasty!
Very tasty! Love the berry combination. Great way to start the day.
Mixed Berry smoothie, including homemade protein powder was a yummy and healthy start to the day. So glad spring is here with all the good things that go along with it. Looking forward to a great start over the 10 day smoothie challenge, and can’t wait for the Spring Cleanse!
This 10-Day Green Smoothie Challenge is the perfect warm-up for Fresh Start Spring Plant-Based Cleanse – you’re so right Suzanne! Let’s get those blenders going!
You can’t go wrong with a berry smoothie! Its smooth and tastes good. I used a whole banana because all my berries were frozen and I always need just a tad bit more sugar than frozen fruit has to offer. Lol
My first cherry smoothie ever & it was delish. Added some chia seeds for extra fiber and protein powder to make it a meal replacement and it was quite tasty!
Very tasty, I might try the avocado next time like some of the other posters.
Good but a bit sweet for me. Want to try subbing the banana for avocado to diminish some of the sweet.
Perfect solution Jenn!
Super tasty!
I used a combo of spinach and kale in this smoothie, and i found that with the banana it was a bit sweet for my taste – in future i would substitute the banana with either some cashews or avocado
The taste was fresh and Spring like otherwise though!!
That’s a great plan, Ann. Plus swapping in cashew or avocado for the banana will up that protein and/or healthy fat ratio too!
Though not a huge fan of cherries, this one was not bad. I even managed to not taste the spinach this time lol.
Awesome Amanda! I’m not a huge cherry fan either, yet this is a yummy one for sure!