10 Fruitiest Berry Smoothies You’ll Want This Summer
To keep cool and stay healthy this summer, there’s nothing better than a great-tasting cold smoothie packed with all the best summer fruits and flavors! Here are 10 of the fruitest berry smoothies out there to fall in love with this summer season. They are healthy, colorful, and so flavorful. Easy to make at home with only a couple quick steps, few ingredients and instruments, these different smoothies are ideal.
1. Triple Berry Green Smoothie
Yield: 1 serving
This purple beauty is packed with spinach to give you the health you crave and the fruit taste you love!
Ingredients:
- 1 handful spinach approx. 1 cup
- 1 cup frozen blueberries, raspberries, blackberries
- ½ banana
- 1 cup almond/cashew/regular milk
Directions:
Add all the ingredients into a blender and blend on high until smooth. Pour into a glass and enjoy. Recipe courtesy of breakfastfordinner.net.
2. Cherry Berry Smoothie
Yield: 2 servings
This smoothie choice is so creamy and smooth with yogurt and milk to complement the cherry’s tartness.
Ingredients:
- ½ cup fresh or frozen unsweetened pitted red tart cherries
- ½ cup low-fat milk
- ¼ cup plain fat-free or low-fat yogurt
- 2 tbsp fresh or frozen unsweetened blueberries or raspberries
- 1 tbsp frozen tart cherry or cranberry juice concentrate, thawed
- 1 tbsp honey
- ½ tsp vanilla
- 8 ice cubes
Directions:
In a blender, combine cherries, milk, yogurt, blueberries/raspberries, juice concentrate, honey, and vanilla. Cover and blend approx. 45 sec or until smooth. Add ice cubes, cover, and reblend 15 sec until smooth. Pour into 2 glasses. Add additional cherries or chopped dried cherries to the top for desired garnish. Recipe courtesy of midwestliving.com.
3. Tropical Mango-Pineapple-Berry Smoothie
Yield: 2 servings
So fresh, this delicious berry smoothie adds two of the best tropical flavors and tang to the mixture and frozen fruits cuts down on ice that can water down your drinks.
Ingredients:
- 1 mango, peeled, seeded, and diced
- 1 cup frozen strawberries
- 1 cup low-fat vanilla yogurt
- 6 oz pineapple juice
- ½ cup frozen blueberries
Directions:
Combine the mango, frozen strawberries, yogurt, pineapple juice, and frozen blueberries in a blender; blend until smooth and enjoy! Recipe courtesy of allrecipes.com.
4. Strawberry Blackberry Banana Smoothie
Yield: 1 serving
The chia seeds in this berry smoothie recipe add great hidden nutritional fiber, plant-based protein, and omega-3 fatty acids.
Ingredients:
- ½ cup strawberries, fresh or frozen
- ½ cup blackberries, fresh or frozen
- ½ banana, frozen
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
- ⅓ cup-¾ cups oat, almond, or other plant milk of choice
- 1 tsp cacao powder, optional for a bit of chocolate taste
Directions:
Add all the ingredients to a blender and blend until smooth. The banana must be frozen, but strawberries and blackberries can be fresh or frozen. Frozen fruits provide a thicker texture. Adjust the amount of milk-based on the preferred thickness of the drink. Recipe courtesy of breesveganlife.com.
5. Apple Kiwi Green Smoothie
Yield: 2 servings
This healthy, green berry smoothie is packed with spinach that will fill you up. Green smoothies such as this also act as great energy-boosters and detoxifiers.
Ingredients:
- 1 banana, peeled
- 1 large green apple, cored and chopped
- 3 kiwis, peeled and cubed
- 1 cup unsweetened yogurt
- 1 cup water
- 2 cups spinach
Directions:
In a blender, add all the ingredients together and blend until smooth to your liking. Note: keeping the apple skins on your apples adds even more great fiber. This recipe is great as a quick breakfast smoothie out the door. Recipe courtesy of simplywhisked.com.
6. Raspberry Avocado Lime Smoothie
Yield: 3 servings
The citrusy lime makes this vegan berry smoothie flavorful. The hidden avocado also adds more protein!
Ingredients:
- 1 ripe avocado, peeled and deseeded
- 250 g raspberries, fresh or frozen
- 1 lime, peeled
- 240 ml coconut water or almond milk
- 2 tbsp maple syrup
Directions:
Peel the lime by trimming the top and bottom of the fruit. Place it on one end and slice the skin along the pith downward and all the way around until fully peeled. Place the lime and the rest of the ingredients in a blender and puree until evenly smooth. Enjoy chilled. Recipe courtesy of: everydayhealthyrecipes.com.
7. Apple Smoothie
Yield: 2 servings
Another great way to add extra nutrition with unpeeled apples, this berry smoothie has some great variation possibilities for flavor if you use a variety of apple types in your recipe! The ground flaxseed also puts in a new kind of protein.
Ingredients:
- 2 medium to large-sized apples sliced
- 2 cups frozen blueberries
- 1 cup frozen raspberries
- 2 tbsp ground flax seed
- 1 ½ cup water or coconut water
Directions:
Wash and slice the apples into medium-sized pieces. Discard the apple seeds. Place the apples into a blender and add in all other ingredients. Blend until smooth and serve chilled. Recipe courtesy of jeanniestriedandtruerecipes.com.
8. Wild Blueberry Coconut Pie Smoothie
I love the idea of cottage cheese protein and flavor in this new take on a fruity berry smoothie recipe. This one is really delicious and the added coconut gives it a nice texture. The name says pie but the smoothie is so healthy and pretty just to look at!
Yield: 1 serving
Ingredients:
- ½ cup frozen wild blueberries
- 8 oz coconut water
- ⅓ cup low fat cottage cheese
- 2 tbsp shredded, unsweetened dried coconut
- 1 to 2 packets of stevia, to taste
- ½ cup ice, more if needed/desired
- Additional frozen wild blueberries for desired garnish
- Additional shredded, unsweetened dried coconut for desired garnish
Directions:
Add all the ingredients to a blender and process until smooth. Pour into a tall glass and garnish if desired. Enjoy immediately. Recipe courtesy of: wildblueberries.com.
9. Strawberry Piña Colada Smoothie
Yield: 2 servings
There are some great flavor variations to this berry smoothie and it looks great with a pineapple wedge or strawberry slitted to the rim of the glass for garnish.
Ingredients:
- ¼ cup cream of coconut
- 1 ½ cups pineapple juice, strawberry-pineapple juice, or milk
- ¼ cup strawberry or vanilla yogurt
- 1 ½ cups frozen pineapple
- 1 cup frozen strawberries
Directions:
Combine all of your ingredients into a blender in the order listed. Blend on high and mix until all ingredients are combined and smooth to liking. You can add more ice or juice to thin or thicken depending on your blender power and personal preferences. Recipe courtesy of lmld.org.
10. Oatly Orange Sunrise Smoothie
Yield: 1 serving
Great the sunrise with this sweet and fruitiest orange and berry breakfast smoothie choice.
Ingredients:
- 3 blueberries
- 3 raspberries
- 3 blackberries
- ⅓ cup organic frozen orange juice concentrate
- 1-½ cups Oatly oat milk
- 2 tsp. blue agave syrup, more to taste
- 1 tsp. lemon juice
- 1 tsp. pure vanilla extract
- ¼ tsp. camu powder, optional
- ½ cup ice cubes
- 1 ¼ in. slice of a large orange
Directions:
Thread alternating berries onto the skewer one in. from the top. Put the skewer on a plastic-lined plate and into a freezer until berries are mostly frozen, about 4 hrs. Let frozen orange juice concentrate sit out for about 5 min. then combine it with Oatly oat milk, agave, lemon juice, vanilla, and camu powder, if using, in a blender and puree until smooth. Add ice cubes and puree until the mixture is thick and frothy. Pour into a large glass, attach the orange slice to the rim, and put the frozen berry skewer into the smoothie. Serve immediately. Recipe courtesy of finecooking.com.
