Easy, 5-ingredient pineapple spinach smoothie that is so refreshing. It’s a delicious way to start your day. The wonderful whole fruits are satisfyingly filling and give the perfect energy boost.
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Simple & Delicious: This fruit smoothie uses simple yet flavorful ingredients. Talk about a win-win!
- Quick & Easy: It takes just 5 minutes to make. Who can beat that?
- Nutrient-Packed: This pineapple green smoothie is made with healthy ingredients and is an easy way to get more leafy greens into your diet.
Nutrition For Mental Health
This fresh pineapple and spinach smoothie is crammed with nutritious ingredients to start your day on the right foot. The balance between the more bitter spinach, the sweet frozen fruit, and the nutty, creamy almond milk and hemp seeds leads to a faultless combo.
A staple ingredient in almost every green smoothie is spinach. This leafy green is jam-packed with nutrients, including vitamins C, A, and K, calcium, and folate. My body loves the benefits. However, I can’t say I wake up excited to chow down on a bowl of spinach. This is why blending spinach in a green pineapple smoothie is the best of both worlds.
Hemp seeds are used in this recipe to increase healthy fats. They contain a multitude of different essential fatty acids, including omega-6 and omega-3. Hemp seeds are also packed with protein and are a good source of vitamin E, magnesium, potassium, and phosphorus. Vitamin E has been shown to improve depression across multiple studies.
Ingredients + Notes
My favorite smoothies are often simple ones. Here are the main ingredients for this pineapple spinach green smoothie.
- Spinach: This is my go-to leafy green for a healthy green smoothie recipe. Many people opt for kale, but I’m not a fan and prefer fresh spinach.
- Pineapple: The key ingredient in this easy smoothie recipe, giving it its delicious tropical flavor. Fresh pineapple works well, but I do prefer frozen fruit when making smoothies for optimal creamy texture.
A full list of ingredients with exact amounts can be found in the recipe card below.
Recipe Variations
This tasty pineapple smoothie uses simple ingredients.
- Milk: This recipe calls for easy almond milk because it is often what we have on hand. Whatever plant-based milk you have on hand, such as cashew milk, oat milk, coconut milk, hemp milk, or soy milk.
- Fruit Juices: Instead of using dairy-free milk, you could use orange juice, pineapple juice, or mango juice.
- Coconut Water: For extra hydration, swap the plant-based milk for coconut water.
- Protein Powder: If you are looking to add more protein to your diet, vanilla protein powder works great in this healthy smoothie recipe.
How To Make A Pineapple and Spinach Smoothie
- Add the spinach and hemp seeds into your high-speed blender first, followed by the remaining ingredients.
- Blend on high until it is nice and smooth.
- Pour into your cup of choice and enjoy!
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Serving Suggestions
However you decide to serve this pineapple banana spinach smoothie, you are in for a treat. Not even Karen could refuse.
Toppings
- Coconut flakes
- Granola
- Vegan Greek yogurt
- Fresh fruit
- Drizzle of agave nectar or maple syrup
- Nuts and seeds: flax seeds, chia seeds, pumpkin seeds, cashews, toasted almonds, etc.
- Nut butters such as almond butter or peanut butter
Sides
- Oatmeal: A warm bowl of Homemade Strawberry Oatmeal or Easy Cinnamon Apple Oatmeal is so good with this spinach and pineapple smoothie.
- Chia Pudding: This Easy Coconut Milk Chia Pudding or Best Chia Pudding With Vanilla would both be so good with this green smoothie!
- Toast: For a savory option, I recommend this Best Scrambled Tofu Toast or Vegan Avocado Toast!
Storage Tips
If you have leftovers of this easy spinach and pineapple smoothie, then it can be stored in the fridge or freezer!
- Fridge: Keep leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 24 hours for optimal freshness.
- Freezer: When it comes to freezing leftover smoothie, I recommend two options. One, pour extra smoothie into an ice cube tray. This way, it can be easily added to your next green smoothie. Two, pour leftovers into a popsicle mold for a fun treat later!
Meal Prep
Take five Stasher bags (or other freezer-safe bags or containers) and dish out a portion of spinach, pineapple, banana, and hemp seeds into each bag, and freeze. Now you can just grab the bags in the morning and toss the contents into the blender. All you need to do is add a splash of almond milk, and you are ready to go. Just be sure to check you haven’t developed a green smoothie mustache before you start talking to your boss at work!
This meal prep hack is ideal for anyone who finds themselves rushing off to work in the morning. Instead of skipping breakfast or grabbing a quick granola bar on the way out the door, try this.
FAQ
I found it surprising that this is a frequently googled question. Adding spinach, kale, collard greens, chard, arugula, watercress, microgreens, or any other leafy green, for that matter, into a smoothie is a great way to pack in nutrients.
Personally, my favorite greens to add to smoothies are spinach or moringa. The most widely available form of the latter is moringa powder. I like using spinach and/or moringa because they are both fairly mild in flavor and become well-hidden when mixed with fruit.
A whole foods green smoothie is a good source of fiber, vitamins, and minerals. Drinking a green smoothie every day can therefore increase your whole foods intake, as well as fiber, vitamin, and mineral consumption.
Yes, drinking a whole foods spinach smoothie every day can be very healthy. Adding a spinach smoothie to your daily routine is a great way to get extra greens and fiber into your diet.
Fruit smoothies, including green spinach smoothies, are excellent sources of fiber. Eating enough fiber benefits digestive health and keeps things moving. So yes, spinach smoothies can make you poop!
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Recipe
Recip
Pineapple and Spinach Smoothie
Equipment
Ingredients
- 1 large handful of spinach
- 1 large frozen banana
- 1 cup fresh or frozen pineapple
- 1/2 cup unsweetened almond milk
- 1 tablespoon hemp seeds, optional
Instructions
- Add the spinach and hemp seeds into your high-speed blender first, followed by the remaining ingredients.
- Blend on high until it is nice and smooth.
- Pour into your cup of choice and enjoy!
Notes
- Fridge: Keep leftovers in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 24 hours for optimal freshness.
- Freezer: When it comes to freezing leftover smoothie, I recommend two options. One, pour extra smoothie into an ice cube tray. This way, it can be easily added to your next green smoothie. Two, pour leftovers into a popsicle mold for a fun treat later!
Nutrition
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Reference
Lee, A. R. Y. B., Tariq, A., Lau, G., Tok, N. W. K., Tam, W. W. S., & Ho, C. S. H. (2022). Vitamin E, Alpha-Tocopherol, and Its Effects on Depression and Anxiety: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Nutrients, 14(3), 656. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14030656
I’m not a big fan of green smoothies but you can’t even taste the spinach. Sign me up!
Oh perfect! I definitely don’t like to taste greens in my smoothies either.