Coffee is one of the most ancient drinks known to mankind. It’s a drink that hasn’t been immune to modern dietary tendencies such as food processing and additives. The ancient superfood, “raw coffee beans and hot water”, turned into instant coffees or cappuccinos, artificial sweetened drinks, flavored coffee beans, and other unhealthy processed forms.
On the other hand, Green Juice and smoothies have awesome health benefits. Greener alternatives to your regular drinks help to alkalinize your blood. By drinking one green smoothie per day, you gradually detoxify, and improve your health and wellbeing.
Thus, I created this Coffee Spinach Smoothie recipe: To connect the energizing stimulant benefits of unprocessed coffee, with the nutritional rewards of green smoothies. This recipe is 100% plant-based and vegan.
Contents
Ingredients: For One Serving
- Coffee – 1 cup
- Brown sugar/xylitol/dates
- 1/4 cup of plant-based Milk
- Small cup of Ice
- 1 Banana
- 50 grams of Spinach
Coffee Spinach Smoothie Directions
- Make a cup of coffee (+- 250ml). Whichever type you prefer, including decaf. You could even use an automatic espresso machine to make coffee for this recipe.
- Add your sweetener to the coffee, preferably not white sugar nor artificial sweeteners like Aspartame. Try Xylitol or Brown Sugar, instead. Otherwise, leave out the sweetener and simply blend in a few dates to the smoothie.
- Add the coffee to the Blender.
- Then add a quarter-cup of plant-based milk. I used Almond milk.
- Now add a small cup full of ice to improve consistency and to turn the coffee into iced-coffee.
- Add one banana.
- Next, add around 50 grams of spinach. Exact quantities are not required.
- You could add more dates or honey, agave syrup, sweet molasses, etc, to the final smoothie ingredients (depending how sweet you prefer).
- Blend everything together.
- Enjoy.
You now have a healthier alternative to the morning cup of coffee – a green coffee spinach smoothie.
Below you can view my accompanying instructional video to prepare this smoothie:
Some Health Benefits of Spinach
- Magnesium (for e.g. a healthy Cardio-vascular system, and brain – to feel sharp mentally)
- Calcium (benefits include bone health)
- Potassium (very important for all-round good health. It also effectively counters the high sodium/salt in modern diets)
- Anti-oxidants (fights cancer and promotes health)
- Iron (important for mental and physical health)
- Lutein for eye health
- Vitamin C for a strong Immune System.
Drink Organic Coffee
The more natural and close to nature your coffee is, the healthier and better for you. Here’s a few benefits of organic coffee:
- It’s grown free from harmful pesticides and herbicides.
- It often contains higher nutritional value than conventional mass-produced coffee.
- The coffee farmers don’t have to deal with any chemicals.
- The entire eco-system, including communities, the soil, the water, and air, are also not exposed to any of the harmful chemicals used in regular coffee production.
Thus, consider ordering I-Herb’s popular Organic Coffee online (over here) for Worldwide delivery.
Did you try making this smoothie yourself? And is there any ingredients you’d like to add or modifications you’d suggest for this recipe? Comment below!
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