A Green Apple Smoothie recipe is the ultimate nutritious addition to your morning. Loaded with fruits and vegetables, this smoothie starts your day off right!
A super smoothie if there ever was one – spinach and apples blended with banana lemon and honey. Totally delicious. Totally refreshing. And I totally think I am in smoothie love!
Because today, the day after one of the most indulgent days of the year, green smoothie love is the best kind of love!!
Loaded with so many vitamins, minerals and all those good things, this gluten-free smoothie will make your tummy very happy. And I promise you can’t even taste the spinach!
I love the fact that this super smoothie has a kind of tart but kind of sweet but kind of distinct Green Apple Flavour. Just like candy. If that makes any sense at all. But, like, healthy candy.
Side Note: I have candy on the brain lately. This last post but definitely all about nature’s healthy candy too. You know it’s the holidays when your body is craving all the candy and sweet treats.
I mean, just take a look at that totally bright (and almost too green) green colour. Isn’t it just fabulous?
And it’s fabulous for you too!!
MORE ABOUT THIS GREEN APPLE SMOOTHIE RECIPE…
Spinach, apple, banana, pineapple and lemon all blended together in one totally tasty, super smoothie loaded with vitamins, minerals and fibre and that’s totally gluten-free and pretty easy to make too!
This recipe makes enough for 1 large-ish smoothie, which for me is totally fine – it’s big enough to be able to feel satisfied but not quite big enough to share. Sorry J!
I always start my green smoothies off by blending my greens with some of the smoothie liquid – so here it was the spinach with the almond milk. This, for me, is the key to a smooth green smoothie. It’s just a little step I take to make sure there aren’t any leaves of spinach floating around in my glass… because that is the worst!!
My green of choice for green smoothies will always be baby spinach. It’s so delicate and mild in flavour and not bitter at all which makes it super easy to hide the taste and the texture. You can experiment with other greens here but I will always choose spinach.
I seriously love the slightly sweet-slightly tart thing going on here. The banana and the honey for just a touch of sweetness. And the Granny Smith apple (with the seeds and core removed and the skin left on) and the pineapple and the lemon juice for a touch of tart. And just like candy.
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Green Apple Smoothie
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 2 cups 1x
Description
A Green Apple Smoothie recipe is the ultimate nutritious addition to your morning. Loaded with fruits and vegetables, this smoothie starts your day off right!
Ingredients
- 1 cup (packed) baby spinach
- 3/4 cup unsweetened, plain almond milk or water, divided (plus more to thin if necessary)
- 1 small frozen banana (or about 1/2 cup of frozen banana slices)
- 1/2 cup frozen pineapple chunks (or use mango, peaches or more banana)
- 1/2 cup diced fresh apple (about 1/2 an apple; I used a Granny Smith Apple)
- 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
- 1 tablespoon honey (or other liquid sweetener like maple syrup or agave), or to taste
- Handful of ice cubes, optional
- Optional Add-ins – 1 teaspoon of chia seeds, hemp seeds, flax seeds
Instructions
- In a blender, food processor or NutriBullet add spinach and 1/2 cup of almond milk or water. Blend until smooth. (I like blending to the spinach first to avoid any spinach chunks in my smoothie – even in my Vitamix I still find the odd leaf.)
- Add banana, pineapple or other fruit, apple, lemon, honey, 1/4 cup of remaining almond milk or water and ice (and any add-ins like seeds). Blend until a smooth and creamy consistency is reached.
- Serve immediately.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
Rebecca Dwyre is the holistic nutritionist, recipe creator and photographer behind Always Nourished. Being diagnosed with PCOS in 2018 was unexpected and devastating for her. Since then she’s been on her own PCOS Freedom journey and has learned so much about managing Polycystic Ovary Syndrome with food and lifestyle that she’s made it her mission to share what she has learned so that other women with PCOS don’t have to struggle like she did. 
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This combination is really tasty. Thanks for sharing.
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I used date nectar as the sweetener. D’Vash is the brand.
Can you use dates to sweeten instead of honey? Honey is just like white sugar in that it will stop your fat from burning.
I didn’t feel like this needed any sweetener. But sure, you could add any type of sweetener you wish. Why not?
I love green smoothies I am always happy to learn a new recipe. This one is simply awesome! Can I use coconut instead of almond milk, Rebecca?
I love smoothies! This ones sounds refreshing! Cannot wait to try it out!
This Green Apple Smoothie sounds wonderfully delicious and super healthy! You know what they say, an apple a day keeps the doctor away.
It may be the dietitian in me talking, but I have been craving a green smoothie! I may run to the grocery store to get the ingredients for this tonight!
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I hope you love it, Emily!!
The pineapple and apple in this must play off of one another so beautifully! It isn’t a flavor combo I’ve tried in a smoothie, but that needs to be remedied ASAP!
I used apple and peaches. Lovely!
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This is my kind of smoothie! I love the delicate, mild flavor of the baby spinach too! Would love this for a quick delicious breakfast!
This looks so refreshing, especially during the holidays and all the cookies! Looks like I need to grab some green apples from the market soon!
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Perfect healthy smoothie to stay on track this holiday season!
This green apple smoothie has everything I love in it! And I love that it’s just enough for me and no sharing required…lol!!
Love a delicious green smoothie! Such a great combo that always hits the spot and makes you feel good. This would be one my girls would love!
Pineapple! I swear, pineapple makes any smoothie delicious 🙂
Yes!! I couldn’t agree more!!
Green apples are really good for motion sickness, so I love having them and smoothies when I’m traveling on cruise ships!
This green apple smoothie sounds amazing! I love that it has a bit of a tropical flavor to it with the pineapple. I made an apple pie smoothie earlier this season and drank one a day for weeks. I was obsessed! Apples in smoothies is such an amazing combo