This carrot smoothie recipe is surprisingly delicious with a variety of fruits AND veggies. I’ll show you exactly what ingredient to use if you’re looking to take your health to the next level. Grab your blender and let’s go!
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Health Benefits of a Carrot Smoothie
This carrot smoothie recipe shines most in its vitamin C and fiber content. Fiber is an underrated part of a healthy diet, so I love when one of my smoothie recipes contains a solid amount of dietary fiber.
The other big star in this carrot smoothie is vitamin C. One serving gives you over 100% of the recommended daily intake of vitamin C. So not only will this smoothie satisfy your taste buds, it will also boost your immune system naturally!
Raw vs Cooked Carrots
Someone asked me whether raw or cooked carrots were more beneficial in this carrot smoothie. I laughed, thinking it was a joke… and then I actually researched it. The answer may surprise you!
According to the National Library of Medicine, cooked, pureed carrots actually released more beta-carotene than raw carrots did. So if you’d rather cook your carrots before blending, then go for it! Either way, carrots are a great, sweet veggie to add to all kinds of smoothies.
To Peel or Not to Peel
As with many fruits + veggies, the peel (or outside wrinkly part) of a carrot actually contains some of its nutrients. So I recommend leaving that carrot whole before blending. This way you can benefit from as much of that carrot as possible. If your carrots came with their leafy green tops, then you can even toss those in.
Carrot Smoothie Ingredient Swaps
If you’d told me when I started drinking smoothies that I’d be adding veggies like kale or spinach into my smoothies, I’d have told you you were crazy! Yet the more I drink smoothies with leafy greens, the more my body starts to crave other veggies and so I got creative with my blends.
Swap spinach with another leafy green. Carrot tops are perfectly edible, and would make a great swap in this smoothie!
Swap coconut water with regular water, or a brewed herbal tea.
Switch out those strawberries with another berry (raspberries would be my first choice!).
Mango is a great swap for the pineapple. While some of these swaps will lower the amount of vitamin C in this smoothie, a vitamin C smoothie cube can also be added.
Boosting Your Smoothie with Plant-Based Protein
While this carrot smoothie recipe has 4.1 grams of protein, you can boost it to 14.1 grams of protein and make it a complete meal! My homemade protein powder is 100% plant-based with 3 simple, organic ingredients: organic hemp protein, organic chia seeds, and organic flax seeds. These 3 superfoods are ground into a fine powder, and together provide healthy fats, essential amino acids, and the cleanest protein you’ll find on the market.
More Plant-Based Recipes
Here are some other ways to use up that bag of carrots in your fridge. Maybe these’ll inspire you to include a spot for carrots in your next garden!
- Carrot Ginger Soup
- Carrot Tops Smoothie
- Simple Carrot Salad
- Cantaloupe Smoothie
- Loaded Sweet Potato
- Minestrone Soup
Have you ever made a smoothie with carrots? Don’t forget to leave a comment + rating to let me know what you think of this smoothie!
Strawberry Carrot Smoothie
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 cup spinach
- 1 cup coconut water
- ½ cup carrot
- ½ cup strawberries frozen
- ½ cup pineapple frozen
- 1 serving homemade protein powder optional
Instructions
- Blend spinach and coconut water together until smooth.
- Add remaining ingredients and blend again.
Notes
- Use at least one frozen fruit to make the smoothie cold or serve over ice.
- Can chop and steam carrots to make them easier to blend, or leave them raw.
Tastes better than it looks! Much less sweet than I thought it would be, but I may have used less fruit than was called for since I doubled the recipe for two people. Hubby still says it tasted earthy which must be the spinach and I added kale today. In mine I also added chia seeds and pea protein powder. I froze the fruit and spinach which made the smoothies nice and cool.
I loved this one but not my best, sparingly sweet and refreshing
I enjoyed it though
Not too crazy about this one. I’d rather eat my carrots – I like the crunch – than drink them!
Really liked this one. I love carrots in my smoothies.
Day 8
Yummy, yummy, yummy smoothie!
This is one of my favs! I substituted cabbage for the spinach and mango for the strawberries. Also added 1 or 2 tablespoons of chia seeds.
Day 8, Carrot Cooler
I loved this smoothie, I think mostly because it has another veggie in it, I’d like to see less fruit and more veggies.
Fruit is easy to eat for me, but I struggle getting in my veggies!
Well done!
Today I made smoothie #8 Carrot Cooler using my Nutribullet blender. It did a pretty good job with the raw carrot, I shredded the carrot on my box grater. I made it with half spinach and half kale, I also added two of the turmeric boost cubes, really like them. Smoothie was very tasty although using the curly kale instead of the flat leaf kale, I could really detect the kale flavor, will most likely cut back on the kale a bit.
Good one, Not a carrot lover, but smoothies keep me goin. I have almost achieved my first goal of this decade to do the 10day challenge and excercise 5 days a week. Thanks to @simplegreensmoothies Rawstars. !!!Kale Yeah!!! 2 more days to go!
Enjoyed this one very much.
This smoothie has one of the lowest calorie count so I would think for losing weight it’s an excellent choice, However, in terms of titillating my taste buds, this was pretty blah 🙁 . I don’t like the taste that coconut water brings to this smoothie, next time if I use the recipe, I would use unsweetened coconut milk and and 1/2 banana
I liked this one! Wasn’t my absolute favorite but I liked the flavor!
Good smoothie. More earthy taste with carrot. Wasn’t my favorite.
I did not care much for this smoothie. Wasn’t horrible but it’s not on my list to make again.
It so great to see the breakdown of all the ingredients! These smoothies are so delicious! Have you ever added a fresh pear or spaghetti squash?
Love getting extra veggies in there.