9 Green Smoothie Recipes You’ll Actually Enjoy Drinking

By Tara Fuller

Sneaking leafy greens into meals is nothing new. In fact, it’s a pretty awesome way to get extra nutrients in your diet—cheesy kale chips, anyone? But sometimes adding greens to smoothies can taste like your mouth has collided with a grassy knoll.

Fortunately green smoothie recipes have improved by leaps and bounds since stepping into the health limelight. And while you can buy a slurp-worthy spinach smoothie, making your own is so much better (and cheaper). You can experiment with flavors, make adjustments if the taste of the greens is too potent (or not potent enough), and control the amount of sugar, protein, and anything else you’d like to monitor more closely.

To get started, try one of these nine green smoothie recipes. Healthy, full of flavor, and ranging from simple to oh-so adventurous, they’ll have you sneaking superfoods into every meal—and loving the way it tastes and makes you feel.

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1. Strawberry Pomegranate Green Smoothie

Double trouble is more like double the fun in this smoothie. The two layers combine to create an antioxidant-rich powerhouse meal, with superstar ingredients like coconut water, strawberries, spinach, and pomegranate. The blogger uses banana for extra thickness, but we like using Greek yogurt in its place in the strawberry layer to cut back on sugar—the berries are sweet enough.

2. Vegan Mango-Coconut Green Smoothie

With only five ingredients (and the addition of a few ice cubes), this recipe is a perfect option for busy mornings or a post-workout snack. Made with fresh spinach leaves (kale works too!), frozen mango chunks, banana, coconut milk, and a splash of orange juice, it’s both refreshing and filling. Plus, all you have to do is blend and it’s good to go chug.

3. Leprechaun Protein Smoothie

When we hear the word leprechauns, the first thing that comes to mind is Lucky Charms, a childhood favorite and cereal sugar bomb. But here the term refers to how green and healthy this smoothie is. The blogger uses fun ingredients like fresh mint, avocado, pistachios, and protein powder to create a green meal like no other. If it’s too heavy as is, use half the recommended amounts of avocado and protein powder.

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4. Banana Mango Green Smoothie Bowls

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