Blueberry Banana Smoothie Recipe with Protein Powder

Blueberry banana smoothie is packed with nutrients and protein.

This delicious smoothie offers a blend of healthy nutrients and yummy fruits. This healthy breakfast is Low-Sodium, Vegetarian, and Gluten-Free.

This blueberry smoothie makes a wonderful breakfast or quick healthy lunch.

It’s easy to whip up in your blender. Kids love it too.

Blueberry Banana Smoothie Ingredients Profile:

What’s in this smoothie that makes it worth cleaning your blender? Lots of great things. Let’s take a quick look.

What Does Blueberry Do For The Body?

Blueberries are packed with health benefits and are best eaten raw. Fortunately, blueberries can be frozen without losing any of their health benefits.

Be sure to buy organic, flash frozen, unsweetened blueberries for this recipe.

Eating frozen blueberries is like enjoying little candies. Frozen blueberries are perfect for a healthy blueberry smoothie. They bring a lot of nutrition in.

WH foods page on blueberries describes, in detail, the health benefits of organic blueberries: Just one cup of blueberries, will support your body’s health in all these ways.

• A very good source of Vitamin K and C, manganese.
• Heart health benefits include reducing cholesterol and improve blood vessel health. Blueberries also help regulate your blood pressure!
• Heavily loaded with Antioxidants and phytonutrients!
• Memory improvement. Blueberries help reduce aging mental disorders.
• Low glycemic FUNCTION for great blood sugar affects.
• Eye health benefits include protection of the retina from oxygen and sun damage.
• Help prevent, or battle, breast cancer, colon cancer, esophageal cancer, and cancers of the small intestine. More research is being conducted on other forms of cancer this incredible berry may protect against!
• Organic blueberries boost health even more!

Banana:

Bananas are a delicious, low glycemic, high fiber fruit. Bananas contain potassium and many vitamins and minerals.

Chia Seeds:

Chia seeds have 11 proven health benefits. 

Tips for this banana berry smoothie:

• Freeze a couple of bananas cut in half ahead of time (maybe the night before) so you can make more than one of these if you want. They are good!
• Put all ingredients into a blender and pulse until the smoothie is well blended.

Substitutions:

• You can use vanilla yogurt in place of plain. Be sure it’s Greek style.
• You can put ice cubes into the smoothie if you would like it to be a thicker consistency.
• Any milk can be used to replace coconut milk.
• You can use whatever your favorite protein powder is. We used Whey Protein.
• Toss in either ground flaxseed or add more chia seed to boost breast milk production.

Join me and start your day off right with this Blueberry Banana breakfast in a glass.

A note on Lactose in this recipe:

This recipe contains Greek Yogurt. This is more digestible form of yogurt since it is strained. Straining out the whey from yogurt also removes some of the lactose.

We make our own Greek Yogurt. If you do make your own yogurt you can strain out almost all of the whey.

Straining Greek Yogurt heavily until it is almost a cottage cheese consistency results in a very mild luscious yogurt. Making your own Greek Yogurt in credibly simple to do and saves you TONS of money too.

learn how to make your own Greek Yogurt here

So this Yogurt smoothie is much more digestible for Lactose sensitive people. Give this recipe a try if dairy bothers you but Greek yogurt doesn’t.

If you are INTOLERANT of lactose the Greek Yogurt and this recipe may cause you some gastric trouble.

How Many Calories In a Blueberry Banana Smoothie ?

Below you will find our complete nutritional breakdown for this recipe. This smoothie has an excellent nutritional profile.

Unless you are doing Keto this smoothie should work well for you. It has enough carbs and protein to be sustaining with a great fiber content.

Fiber will help digest the smoothie and get it through the gut in a healthy way. Leaving you feeling refreshed and energized. Enjoy. 🙂

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