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 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.

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

Many recipes for 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.

If you need a good source for stevia products, iHerb.com has over 70 to choose from! And at iHerb, you'll get $5 off your first purchase!

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

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.

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

Do you have a
favorite healthy smoothie recipe?

If you do, would you like to share it with my readers? Your recipe will appear on its own page right here on this website! If your smoothie has some not-so-healthy ingredients, that's OK; submit it anyway and I'll substitute healthier ones.