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This Strawberry Banana Smoothie is a guilt-free treat that tastes like dessert in a glass. Sweet strawberries, creamy banana, and hidden vegetable create a luscious, energizing drink packed with fiber, antioxidants, and omega-3s.
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This Strawberry Banana Smoothie is a delicious way to fuel your body with powerful health benefits.
- Brain & heart support: Get some omega-3s from chia seeds, potassium from bananas and antioxidants from strawberries.
- Sustained energy: Enjoy those natural carbohydrates from banana and strawberries, fiber from chia seeds, banana, and cauliflower and plant-based protein from chia seeds.
- Immunity boost: Boost your Vitamin C with strawberries and cauliflower and enjoy these antioxidants that help fight inflammation.
- Digestive health: The high fiber content promotes regularity and gut wellness.
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Strawberry Banana Smoothie Ingredients
Here are a few quick notes about the strawberry banana smoothie ingredients that you will need to make this recipe:
- Frozen strawberries: Look for unsweetened frozen strawberries in the frozen fruit section. Check the label to make sure no added sugars or syrups are included.
- Banana: Choose ripe bananas (yellow with a few brown spots). Riper bananas are sweeter and blend better in smoothies. if you have extras, you can freeze bananas for future smoothies.
- Almond milk: Choose unsweetened almond milk brand for lower sugar or make your own homemade almond milk.
- Frozen cauliflower: Look for frozen riced cauliflower or frozen florets—riced blends more easily. Adding a little frozen cauliflower to fruit smoothies adds fiber + extra creaminess and doesn’t ruin the taste. Promise this is a winner (and you’ll never go back to a straight fruit smoothie).
- Chia seeds: Black or white chia seeds are both fine—there’s no nutritional difference. These superfoods add omega-3s, fiber, and protein.
Recipe Tips
- Add a protein powder or try my homemade protein powder to give you long lasting energy without any sugar crash.
- Swap almond milk with any non-dairy milk like oat, soy, cashew, or coconut milk.
- Use one of my recommended blenders for smoothies to get the creamiest result.
How to Make Strawberry Banana Smoothie | 1 Minute Video
Recipe Variations
- Protein boost: Add 1 serving of protein powder or collagen peptides to make it more filling and supportive for muscle recovery and skin health.
- Extra creamy: Swap almond milk for canned light coconut milk or add ¼ avocado for a richer, creamier texture.
- Fiber-rich: Add 1 tablespoon ground flaxseed or keep the chia seeds and add ½ cup frozen zucchini for extra fiber without changing the taste.
- Green smoothie: Blend in 1 cup fresh spinach. This leafy green vegetable blends smoothly and won’t overpower the strawberry banana flavor.
- Naturally Sweeter: Add 1–2 pitted dates or swap half the almond milk for coconut water for a slightly sweeter, more refreshing finish.
Storage Tips
Drink immediately for the best texture and flavor. Or store in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 24 hours—just give it a good shake or stir before drinking!
More Strawberry Smoothies
Looking for more quick and tasty smoothie recipes that are sure to be a hit? Here are a few faves:
- Strawberry mango smoothie
- Spinach strawberry banana smoothie
- Strawberry watermelon smoothie
- Strawberry blueberry smoothie
Strawberry Banana Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 cup strawberries frozen
- 1 ½ banana
- 1 cup almond milk
- ¼ cup cauliflower frozen
- 2 tablespoon chia seeds
Instructions
- Blend strawberries, banana and almond milk until creamy.
- Add cauliflower and chia seeds and blend again.
- Pour into a glass and enjoy!
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Notes
- If using fresh cauliflower, make sure to use one frozen fruit for a refreshingly cool smoothie.
- Swap the almond milk for the non-dairy milk of your choice.
Delicious and creamy- Vitamix made it the consistency of soft serve ice cream. I made it with oat milk and added vegan protein. What a treat!!
I am not a fan of strawberry-banana flavor to start with, and then cauliflower in my smoothie? I promised myself I would try the recipes as is before trying any tweaking, so that’s what I did this morning. And am I glad I did! I found that the ratio strawberry/banana was perfect to my taste and the creaminess of the texture really is just wow!
So glad you gave this one a go, Carole!
First let me say cauliflower is one of my least favorite foods – but you really cannot taste it in this smoothie, just the delicious strawberries.
I didn’t notice the cauliflower at all. Think my strawberries weren’t tart because the banana was overpowering. But still tasty and I look forward to trying this in the summer
It tasted like a strawberry shake, had a creamy texture and I couldn’t taste the cauliflower at all. It isn’t one of my top 20 favorite Simple Green Smoothies, but was really good.
I love strawberries and banana together. Cauliflower wasn’t even noticeable.
Today’s strawberry banana smooth was fast, easy, and delicious! Day 1 is off to a great start!
I really like this smoothie. A sneaky way to get veggies in. You can’t taste the cauliflower.
Thanks for the smoothie challenge. I love the idea of adding cauliflower, but I am not a fan of banana tasting things so I didn’t care for this one. I made some for my teens too (they are getting to take the challenge with me to try other flavors than our usual smoothie version) and we didn’t love this flavor combination enough to make it again. However it would be easy to switch out the banana for another frozen fruit we like better and make it work.
Great flavor!
I loved this smoothie! I thought the cauliflower was going to add an odd taste, but it didn’t. Thanks for getting me to try something I would have never tried on my own.
Very creamy. I’m used to adding a little stevia to smoothies, so this was not as sweet. But I love adding in the cauliflower for extra nutrition.
I am in LOVE with the taste of this Banana Strawberry Smoothie!!! I have made Banana Strawberry Smoothies for years, but they cannot compete with this one!!! Oh my gosh, this is my new favorite and will be my go to from now on; thanks Jen!!!
Quite delicious, I made this for my husband and I we bother enjoyed it! I added spinach to his which made it look like chocolate, I added unflavored collagen to mine- so good!
Tasty for a healthy smoothie. I followed the recipe as is without any of the suggested additions. It was creamy and smooth and a pretty shade of pink, which I always find that the appearance can improve or take away from the taste ☺️
This smoothie is soo good. I love it. The consistancy is nice and creamy too. I used frozen fruit/cauliflower to get it cold.
I just made the strawberry banana smoothie for breakfast. The cauliflower really does make it creamy! I will just keep a bag in the freezer so my family can add it to their smoothies too!!
I enjoyed the Strawberry Banana smoothie this morning and added the protein powder mix to it as well. Definitely going to keep this one in rotation.
This Strawberry Banana Smoothie is the best of all worlds! Deliciously creamy! And you get your vegetables!
Oh my goodness! So creamy! So smooth! So yummy!
Just love this smoothie!