Healthy drinks have been a favorite menu for everyone. It’s not only we know that we need to drink regularly to avoid hydration, but also because we need to consume healthy items for our own sake. We can get these healthy drinks easily everywhere. They’re usually be served at juice bars or restaurants. Yet, if you can make it by yourself, why do you need to buy? Interested in making it? Here are some healthy drinks recipes that you can try at home.
- Coconut Water with Citrus Flavor
Ingredients:
2 cups coconut water
¼ cup lemon juice
½ cup orange juice
2 tbsp. lime juice
2 tsp. sugar
1 cup ice
Oranges and lime or lemon (in slices)
Steps:
- Place all of the ingredients above, except sliced fruits, in the blender and blend them until fully mixed.
- Pour into the glass and serve with the sliced fruits.
You can add some sugar or a bit of honey to make it sweet. This fresh drink is not only would remove your thirst in no time, it would give your energy and maintain your shape (thanks to its quite low calories).
- Coconut Water with Mango Flavor
Ingredients:
250ml coconut water
100g fresh mango
2 tsp. honey
20g oats
5g slivered or sliced almonds
Ice
Steps:
- Place all the ingredients above into the blender.
- Blend them all until they’re mixed well (including the oats).
You can replace honey with other ingredients that suit you better. This healthy drinks is not only fresh, but also helps your digestion system and improve your health.
- Chocolate Banana Smoothie
If you crave for chocolate, it might be a healthy drink recipe you’re looking for. It’s rich calcium as well.
Ingredients:
½ banana
200ml almond milk
1 tsp. cocoa powder
1 tsp. honey
¼ cup natural yoghurt
Ice cubes
Steps:
- Place all the ingredients into the blender.
- Blend them all until smooth
Make sure the banana used is very ripe to make sure you get the optimum benefits of banana.
- Spinach-PineappleSmoothie
Energy from this smoothie would keep you feeling full till the lunch time comes. Don’t forget to use the ripe banana to make sure you got the maximum flavor of it.
Chia, though is not a major part of this smoothie, gives significant effect in boosting your energy. It contains omega-3, protein, dietary fiber and antioxidants that makes it “compulsory” for this smoothie to have.
Ingredients:
2 tbsp. natural yoghurt
Handful of spinach
½ banana, ripe
½ tsp. chia seeds
½ cup milk, low fat
120g pineapple, fresh
6 ice cubes (or more, adjusted to your taste)
Steps:
- Place all ingredients into a blender
- Blend them all till smooth
- Apple, Carrot and Celery Juice
Seeing the names of the ingredients, it’s no doubt that they would make healthy and refreshing drink. It is better to use juice maker to make this juice, since a stick blender would make the juice a bit thicker. Yet, if thicker juice meets your taste, go on with the stick blender then.
Ingredients:
4 small apples, cored
2 medium carrots peeled and cut in half
2 celery sticks
2 tablespoons lemon juice
6 Ice Cubes
Steps:
- Place all ingredients except ice-cubes
- Blend until they mixed and juiced well
- Serve with ice-cubes
- High Protein Booster
Almond is increasingly popular to be used in healthy drinks and diet menus. It has low fat and calories. It’s rich for vitamin E and got no cholesterol. Last but not least, it gives pleasant taste that makes it even more wanted for healthy drinks.
Ingredients:
1 ¼ cups almond milk
½ cup low fat natural yoghurt
8 strawberries
½ banana
1 tbsp. natural unprocessed bran
1 tbsp. honey
6 ice cubes
Steps:
- Place all the ingredients including ice cubes into a blender
- Blend them all until mixed well
- Green Detox Smoothie Recipe
The apples, lime, and spinach will work together to boost the body’s natural ability to flush out toxins and reduce inflammation, while the antioxidants in kiwi and celery fight free radicals.
This smoothie contain lime, apples and spinach that could work together to boost the energy. They also improve the body’s ability to flush the toxin out of the body and reduce inflammation. This wonderful cooperation is even strengthened by the joint team of kiwi and celery to fight free radicals using their antioxidants. The blend of these ingredients is your favorite detox drink.
Ingredients:
1 apple, diced
2 kiwi, peeled and diced
Juice from 1 lime
1 handful spinach
1 stalk celery
1 tsp honey
Some ice cubes
Steps:
- Place all the ingredients into the blender
- Blend it till it mixed well
- Cucumber Mint Water
This drink is not only fresh, it could improve the work of digestion system as well.
Ingredients:
Cucumber
Some mint leaves
Ice cubes
Steps:
- Slice the cucumber
- Put the cucumber into the glass and cover with some mint leaves
- Add some ice cubes and stir it
Besides the healthy drink recipes above, you can create your own healthy drink recipes by combining all the ingredients above or creating totally different recipes. You can try these recipes for your healthy drink for breakfast to boost your energy. By trying these healthy drink recipes at home you would realize that be healthy is actually quite easy to be done.