Simple Citrus Green Smoothie Recipe

This citrus green smoothie is easy and fun to make! Nutritious, packed with vitamins and nutrients, delicious citrus fruits, spinach and kale! This green smoothie recipe does not leave a kale taste in your mouth and is still very healthy.

This was, hands down, the best green smoothie I had made yet. I was in a mood for something more tropical or citrus tasting so I decided to get some appropriate fruits and create an amazing and healthy green smoothie.

I had to make this smoothie a couple of times in order to get the consistency and the taste just right but in the end it came out wonderful. Aside from the pineapple, peaches, and bananas I found that squeezing in the juice of half a lime also gave the smoothie a delicious citrus twist.

So with all the talk about kale and spinach being super foods why are they on that list anyway? According to the USDA raw spinach is packed with calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium, sodium, and zinc which are all important minerals our body needs. Spinach also contains a very long list of vitamins with the highest amounts being Vitamin K, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Folate and many more.

Raw kale on the other hand also has its own long list of nutrients including the minerals calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorous, potassium, sodium and zinc. The main vitamins found in kale are Vitamin C, Vitamin A, and Vitamin K.

Let's face, with this green smoothie you will definitely get your daily dose of Vitamin C (especially if you also add in some lime juice!) but aside from Vitamin C these fruit have their own healthy benefits which I will summarize for you.

Peaches - according to WebMD and Nutrition-and-you.com here's some facts about peaches:

• One peach is less than 70 calories
• It contains 3 grams of fiber
• Has Vitamin A
• Anti-oxidant benefits

Bananas - Nutrition-and-you.com tells us that:

• One banana has 7% of the daily recommended intake of fiber.
• Anti-oxidant source
• Good source of Vitamin B6 (28% of the recommended daily intake)
• Minerals like copper, magnesium which is essential for bone strengthening.
• Rich source of potassium (357 mg per 100 g, which is about one banana).

Pineapple - Whfoods.com tells us that:

• One cup of pineapple chunks is about 83 calories
• One cup has 77% of the daily recommended intake of manganese
• Source of Vitamin B1 and B6
• Source of copper

This recipe makes about two 7-8 oz. smoothies. I like to sometimes add a bit of lime juice (about half a lime squeezed in) to the mix to give it a more tropical taste. In addition, you can also add honey, sugar, or another sweetener of your choice if the final result is not sweet enough for you. However if you use canned fruits like I did here, I found that they were already sweet enough. For this version, I did not add any other sweeteners.