Healthy Peach Smoothie
Recipe Guide

Benefits of a Healthy Peach Smoothie. A healthy peach smoothie recipe will make you one of the most nutritious — and delicious — meals on earth. Healthy fruit smoothies are loaded with phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals and enzymes that come in a whole-food form.

The fruits and vegetable blended together in healthy smoothie recipes provide vitamins, minerals, enzymes and fiber that will do wonders for your health — and build up your body’s defenses against disease.

In addition, when fruits and vegetables are blended, the plant fibers are broken down just like when you chew them; the blender literally does most of the “chewing” for you. And chewing food more thoroughly means that you'll absorb more of the nutrients.

Healthy Smoothies Detoxify Your System. Healthy fruit smoothies retain the fiber from the fruits and the vegetables you use. The fiber works to improve digestion and helps your body naturally rid itself of toxins. Fiber also helps you feel more satisfied, and maintains that feeling longer.

Peaches Make Great Healthy Smoothie Ingredients. They're low in calories; there's just 35 in a medium size peach. Peaches are also good sources of vitamin A and vitamin C. A ripe peach's soft texture makes them easy to blend into a smoothie, and they're also easy to store in your freezer, so you'll always have a supply on hand.

Great Tip for Freezing Peaches! Freezing cut up peaches for your smoothies takes a certain procedure for the best results.

First, start with fully ripened peaches. Cut up each peach into at least eight pieces and remove the pit. Lay the pieces on a cookie sheet or tray, keeping them separate. Place the peaches into the freezer until they freeze, about 5 hours.

Then take the frozen pieces out of the freezer and put them into freezer bags. This procedure will prevent the peach pieces from freezing together into a great big ball. You'll then be able to use just as many as you want at one time.

Recommended Base
for Your Peach Smoothie Recipe

Many recipes for peach smoothies call for the use of milk or yogurt. I personally don't recommend the use of dairy products, but I will leave this up to you. I suggest using a nut milk instead, and that's what you'll find in the healthy smoothie recipes below. Substitute regular milk or yogurt if you prefer.

Here's my universal recipe for a healthy smoothie starter. This takes just a few minutes and it's ready!

Almond Milk Smoothie Starter

Combine the following in your blender:
• 12 oz of water
• 1/3 cup soaked, raw almonds
• 1 tbsp coconut oil
• stevia — sweeten to taste

Blend until smooth and strain through a nylon-mesh nut bag to remove the almond meal.

You can use this as a substitute for milk for any healthy smoothie recipe — or drink it as is. It will only keep for a couple of days, but it's so quick to make, it hardly matters.

About Stevia. If you want to add some type of sweetener to your smoothie recipe, I recommend using stevia.

Stevia is an herbal extract that's 300 times as sweet as sugar. It comes in powder, liquid or tablet form and has no calories. Stevia also does not raise blood sugar levels and is safe for diabetics.

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Chilling Your Peach Smoothies

Is there's anything more refreshing than a cold, creamy smoothie? There are two ways of chilling your peach smoothie recipe: using frozen fruit — or adding ice cubes.

• Ice Cubes — a good way of thinning down a smoothie that's too thick and chilling it at the same time.

• Frozen Fruit — has the advantage of not diluting the taste, and also giving your smoothie a creamier texture. It's very easy and convenient to create a stash of frozen cut-up fruit, so you always have some on hand.

Optional Ingredients
for Your Peach Smoothie Recipe

Optional ingredients for any healthy smoothie recipe that will increase the nutritional value, protein and fiber content of your smoothie include:

Superfoods such as chlorella, spirulina, acai, goji berry and others give your smoothies extraordinary antioxidant content and other nutritional benefits.

Hemp Protein Powder adds protein, healthy omega-3 fats and fiber to your smoothie.

Raw Organic Eggs give your smoothies nature's purest form of complete protein.

Coconut Oil contains about 50 percent lauric acid, a rare medium-chain fatty acid found in mother's milk that has many health-protecting properties. It also gives your healthy smoothie a richer, creamier taste.

Cinnamon, Nutmeg and Cloves have higher concentrations of antioxidants than any fruit or vegetable, and add their warm spiciness to your healthy smoothie recipe.

Peach Smoothie Recipe List

Start by pouring the liquid ingredients for each smoothie recipe into your blender. Use fresh fruit or frozen.

Add any of the optional ingredients recommended above, if you like — then blend until smooth.

Add more liquid to reduce the thickness, ice to chill it, or more fruit to thicken your peach smoothie.

Substitute ingredients at your whim — it's fun to experiment!

Peach Banana Smoothie
1 fresh peach, pit removed
1/2 cup almond milk
1 frozen banana
1/2 tsp stevia
8 ice cubes

Strawberry Peach Smoothie
1 fresh peach, pit removed
1 frozen banana
3/4 cup frozen strawberries
1/2 cup water
1/2 teaspoon stevia
5 ice cubes

Banana Orange Peach Smoothie
1 frozen banana
1 cup sliced fresh peaches
1/4 cup wheat germ
1 cup almond milk
1/2 cup fresh orange
1/2 cup ice cubes

Strawberry Banana Peach
Orange Smoothie
1/2 cup frozen bananas
1/2 cup frozen strawberries
1/2 cup frozen peaches
1/2 cups almond milk
1 cup orange pieces

Strawberry Banana Peach Smoothie
1/2 cup frozen bananas
1/2 cup frozen strawberries
1/2 cup frozen peaches
12 oz almond milk

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