Healthy Strawberry Banana
Smoothie Recipes

Benefits of a Healthy Fruit Smoothie. Strawberry banana smoothie recipes can make you some 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 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.

Strawberries and Bananas are Great Smoothie Ingredients. Strawberries are among the most popular ingredients used for fruit smoothie recipes — for many reasons. They're easy to blend, and add lots of flavor without adding tons of sugar or calories. Bananas add just the right amount of sweetness, and they'll thicken your smoothie as well as add fiber. This is an unbeatable combination for making a healthy fruit smoothie.

All these strawberry banana smoothie recipes I've collected here are just a starting point for you to experiment with and customize to your own taste. I've also including a list of my recommended optional ingredients that you can add to all of the strawberry banana smoothie recipes to make them more nutritious.

Recommended Starter for Your
Strawberry Banana Smoothie Recipes

Most smoothie recipes call for some liquid to allow the solid ingredients to move around inside the blender and give your smoothie the right thickness. This base liquid can be plain water, milk, yogurt, soy milk, nut milks, or fruit juice. If you want your smoothie to provide optimum health benefits, you'll want to pick the right one. I share all the best tips at my page on how to make a smoothie the healthy way.

Chilling Your Strawberry Banana Smoothie

Is there's anything more refreshing than a cold, creamy smoothie? There are two ways of chilling your healthy smoothie recipes:

• 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 healthy fruit smoothies a creamier texture. It's also very convenient to store cut-up fruit in your freezer, so you always have some on hand.

Optional Ingredients for Your
Strawberry Banana Smoothie Recipe

Protein Additives

Adding a quality source of protein turns your smoothie into a complete meal. I recommend raw organic eggs or a protein powder made from hemp, rice, peas or whey.

Hemp protein powder is a great way to add healthy omega 3 fats and fiber to your smoothie as well.

Undenatured whey is another excellent source of protein for your smoothies. Both whey and hemp protein are very mild tasting; the hemp powder is not as concentrated and will thicken up your smoothie quite a bit more than the whey protein will.

I don't recommend using cheap protein powders, especially any with artificial ingredients. The whey protein should be cold-processed (undenatured) and derived from grass-fed cows, free of hormones and chemicals. Cold-processing whey protects the nutrients in their natural state.

Antioxidant Superfoods

Green superfood powders like chlorella and spirulina make any smoothie a super-nutritious green smoothie. They give you the equivalent of several full-size servings of dark green leafy vegetables in just one tablespoon.

Superfood supplements like maca root, raw cacao, hemp, flax, chia seeds and others increase the antioxidant content and nutritional benefits of your smoothie in their own unique ways.

Antioxidant superfruits like acai, goji, mangosteen and noni, available as concentrated juices or powders, add lots more antioxidants and a natural fruit sweetness to your smoothies.

Other Great Additions for Your Healthy Smoothie

Coconut Oil is the healthiest fat there is. It contains lauric acid, a rare medium-chain fatty acid (also found in mother's milk) that has many health-protecting properties. Coconut oil gives your healthy smoothie a richer, creamier texture. Because coconut oil is solid below a temperature of 76 degrees F, it doesn't work as well in cold smoothies.

Herbs and spices like cinnamon, nutmeg and cloves have higher concentrations of antioxidants than any fruit or vegetable, and add a warm flavor to your healthy smoothie recipe.

Strawberry Banana Smoothie Recipes

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!

Add more liquid to reduce the thickness, ice to chill it, or more fruit to thicken your blueberry smoothie. Substitute ingredients at your whim — it's fun to experiment!

Strawberry Banana Smoothie
1-1/2 cups frozen strawberries
1 frozen sliced banana
1 cup nut milk

Strawberry Banana Date Smoothie
1 cup strawberries
3 fresh dates
3 frozen sliced bananas
1 cup nut milk

Strawberry Banana Orange Smoothie
1/2 cup frozen strawberries
1 frozen sliced banana
1/2 cup orange juice
1/2 cup apple sauce
1/2 cup nut milk

Strawberry Banana Peach Smoothie
1/2 cup frozen banana slices
1/2 cup frozen strawberries
1/2 cup frozen peaches
12 oz nut milk

Strawberry Banana Blueberry Smoothie
1/2 cup strawberries
1 frozen sliced banana
1/2 cup blueberries
1 cup milk

Strawberry Tropical Smoothie
1/2 cup of strawberries
1 frozen or fresh banana
1/2 cup mango
1/2 cup pineapple
1/2 cup orange juice
1/2 cup milk

Strawberry Banana Pineapple Smoothie
2 frozen sliced bananas
1 cup frozen strawberries
1 cup pineapple juice