TOP TEN GREEN SMOOTHIE INGREDIENTS
Smoothies are a fast and tasty way to increase our intake of all kinds of essential nutrients, and the greenest ingredients are often the most healthy ones!
Here are our top ten green smoothie ingredients, perfect for whizzing up into a health-packed drink in no time at all.
This amazing wonderfood is sourced from sea algae and is densely packed with a huge number of beneficial vitamins, minerals, proteins and amino acids, and will impart a lush deep green colour to any smoothie.
This light green powder has a pleasant sweet, malty taste with a green leaf flavour similar to fresh spinach.
Perfect for raw food recipes as well as smoothies, Chlorella is an algae that’s full of chlorophyll, vitamin B, calcium, phosphorous and potassium.
Ideal for giving a burst of natural sweetness to smoothies, this pure, unrefined powdered stevia leaf is many times sweeter than sugar with none of the G.I. or calories!
Matcha has been used in traditional Japanese tea ceremonies for nearly a thousand years. It is made from shade-grown tea leaves, avoiding direct sunlight and stimulating growth in chlorophyll which results in the vibrant green colour.
A fantastic source of protein, minerals and vitamins, this fluffy green powder also has a pleasantly nutty taste and is full of essential fatty acids and omega oils.
This pale green powder has a concentrated sweet vegetable flavour with a hint of nuttiness. Its flavours are complimented by spices such as ginger, cloves and nutmeg.
A handful of pumpkin seeds whizzed up in a smoothie will add a lovely deep nuttiness (even better if they’re roasted first). It’s also full of iron, zinc, manganese, magnesium, phosphorus, copper, vitamin K, fibre, protein and essential fatty acids.
Embrace your inner Popeye! An excellent addition to any smoothie, spinach is used as a natural food colouring but is also a superb source of minerals and vitamins.
A sprinkling of Peppermint will give a lovely freshness to a smoothie, and it has excellent anti-nausea properties, as well as tasting fantastic!