It’s no secret that I love to use various spices in my smoothies to boost nutrition and improve the taste. This recipe calls for one of my favorites, ginger. With ginger you get that signature peppery, sweet taste and a bunch of health benefits. Combined with a little spinach, frozen blueberries, and banana, and you’ll be rocking one healthy smoothie!
Quick aside, I recently purchased a new grater by Kyocera (Kyocera ceramic grater), which makes grating things like ginger and turmeric a breeze, and actually kind of fun. You can pick one up from Amazon for around $20. Highly recommended.
Try this delicious and highly nutritious cranberry berry smoothie as a tasty snack, sweet dessert, or healthy meal to start your day.
I’ve listed flax seeds or ground flax seed as an optional or add-on ingredient in several smoothie recipes, but this is the first to feature flax. Let’s get right into all the wonderful health benefits attributed to this superfood that records indicate having been cultivated as far back as 3000 BC.
Blueberry and pomegranate are a winning smoothie combination. There’s a reason you hear a lot about their health benefits in the news. Both contain a plethora of vitamins and nutrients, but are best known for their abundance of antioxidants.
Whenever I feel the need to turn my smoothie to the “green” side, I generally do so with spinach. I’m fortunate enough to have access to local, organic spinach from my CSA (community sponsored agriculture).