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If you love the best green smoothie recipe I ever made, think of this Spinach Berry Smoothie as a refreshing detour. It still delivers leafy greens, but with a berry-forward twist that’s rich in antioxidants and naturally low in sugar. Frozen berries are affordable, easy to find, and blend beautifully with spinach.
If you’re new to pairing spinach and berries, this recipe is a great place to start. Blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, and strawberries create a deep purple hue and sweet berry flavor that completely masks the spinach—so you get a full cup of greens without even tasting it.
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Ingredients You’ll Need
You only need four ingredients and a blender to make this green smoothie:
- Spinach: Spinach is loaded with fiber and nutrients to help my body process the natural sugar in fruit, as well as get in an extra veggie. If you don’t have spinach, you can swap with baby kale or other leafy green vegetables of your choice.
- Almond milk: This non-dairy milk adds some creaminess and protein to the smoothie. If you’re new to buying almond milk, check out the best almond milk brands or try making your own homemade almond milk to get a high-protein version that tastes amazing.
- Frozen mixed berries: A bag of frozen mixed fruit is an easy way to get a variety of berries without all the washing and chopping. Most mixed berries contains strawberries, blackberries and raspberries.
- Banana: The banana adds some sweetness and extra creaminess to the smoothie. You can also use half a banana and 1/4 avocado if you want to decrease the sugars and still get a creamy smoothie. If bananas are ripe, you can chop and freeze bananas for future smoothies.
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Recipe Tips
- This spinach berry smoothie includes a banana, which increases the amount of sugar. If you’re concerned about your blood sugar levels, you can easily adjust for that by adding a scoop of plant-based protein powder. This will increase the fiber, protein and healthy fats to slow down the absorption of the fruit sugars to create long-lasting energy.
- If you’re having trouble getting the spinach chunks to blend up, check out the best blenders from smoothies. I’ve tested these blenders with all kinds of smoothie recipes and they work great.
- Allow frozen berries to sit at room temperature for about 15 minutes to defrost slight before blending. This helps ensure a more even consistency and reduces strain on your blender.
How to Make Spinach Berry Smoothie
- Blend the spinach and almond milk on high speed until there are no leafy chunks left. Depending on the kind of blender you use, this might take awhile. Be patient, because it’s totally worth it!
- Add the mixed berries and banana next. Blend on high speed until smooth.
Blending twice might sound like extra work, yet it actually helps your blender focus on eliminating chunks and giving you the smoothest blend possible. If you’re using a high-end blender, like a Vitamix blender, you can combine all the ingredients at once to save time. Learn more in my how to blend a smoothie guide.
More Berry Spinach Smoothie Recipes
Berries are a staple smoothie ingredient since they are easy to toss in and super packed with vitamins and minerals. Adding to green smoothies enhances the health benefits. Here are a few more spinach berry smoothies you might enjoy:
- Healthy strawberry banana smoothie: A fan favorite combo of strawberries and bananas boosted with a cup of spinach.
- Blueberry spinach smoothie: This was the very first spinach berry smoothie I ever blended and my kids drank it for years.
- Creamy blackberry smoothie: Since blackberries are only ripe for a short season, I grab them whenever I see them and love using them in this smoothie.
- Perfect raspberry smoothie: This may taste like a dessert, but it still has spinach in it!
If you make this spinach berry smoothie recipe, I’d love to know how it turned out in the comment box below! Your review can help other readers in the community. If you’d like more smoothie inspiration (and exclusive content), join my free newsletter.
Spinach Berry Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 cup spinach
- 1 cup almond milk
- 1 cup mixed berries frozen
- 1 banana
- 1 serving homemade protein powder optional
Instructions
- Place spinach and water in blender. Puree until smooth.
- Add fruit and blend again.
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Notes
- Use frozen fruit to make refreshingly cool smoothie.
- To cut down on the natural sugars in this fruit and spinach smoothie, swap 1 banana with 1/2 avocado or 1/2 cup frozen cauliflower.
- Swap spinach with the leafy greens of your choice.
- Add a plant-based protein powder for more protein and healthy fat.
Very tasty smoothie! I used blueberries and strawberries for my berries and thought it had a great flavor with just the right amount of sweetness.
It was definitely berry-packed, but despite my love of berries, this one wasn’t my favorite so far. Maybe it was all the seeds, or maybe because it was less sweet because I swapped the banana for avocado. Whatever the case, I’m not stopping! 🙂
All the smoothies was delicious but I like this was the best, looking forward to week 2
Well my first thought is that it is so pretty! Not kinda muddy looking…and equally delicious!
I am loving this challenge, the recipes are easy and delicious! I love this smoothie, how can you go wrong with berries?
Great start to my day! I used blackberries, blueberries and strawberries. It’ll be fun to try different combinations.
This is my favorite so far. I’m loving this challenge!
Simple, easy and so yummy. I used blueberries, strawberries and a few cranberries.
This was really delicious! I love this one – the whole family does. Thank you!
Delicious and 9-year-old child approved! I had a cherry berry blend on hand and used that and cut the amount of banana in half.
Hey Shannon,
We absolutely love hearing that our recipes are kid approved!! 🙂
Simple and delicious!
Simple and yummy! Added a bit of almond milk
I have a cherry berry blend that I love to use with this smoothie. It’s such a treat with the berries and banana. I love it because I can use any greens and it always tastes amazing. Yay for antioxidants!
I used kale instead of spinach, frozen blueberries and raspberries and since my banana was quite green I added a bit of raw organic honey. Very tasty!
A simple straight to the point smoothie. I had blueberries instead of berries as they were what I had at home. I need to get some riper bananas for next week as that would improve the taste of these smoothies for sure.
Only 4 ingredients, so easy, a beautiful, rich colour and delicious.
This one IS simple & delicious. I used a scant 1/2 cup of OJ & SoyMilk instead of water. Also, a scoop of protein powder. The extra protein from both the soymilk and powder really make this a meal replacement. Yum!
This one was simple and yummy.
I made this for the first day. I love mixed berries and this one tastes great.
Soooo good!