Perfect Banana Peanut Butter Smoothie You’ll Absolutely Love!

Perfect Banana Peanut Butter Smoothie You’ll Absolutely Love!

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Bananas, peanut butter, and apple are the classic flavors we are all obsessed with, you can agree. With a few simple and highly nutritious ingredients you probably already have in your kitchen, you can make this appetizing and delectable smoothie as a part of your breakfast/dinner or as a perfect delightful snack!

It’s one of my favorite smoothie forms, because no matter what season is approaching, apples and bananas are mostly available all year round, making them the ideal ingredients to add to your smoothies and brighten your mornings!

Smoothies are a tasty, practical, and nutritious way to include a range of nutrients in your diet. The body uses vitamins and minerals for hundreds of functions, including the development of tissues like skin and bones, fighting infection, maintenance of immune systems, damage healing, and hundreds more.

This smoothie will probably keep you full for some time, but I wouldn’t recommend switching main meals for smoothies, but rather adding them to your meal, or as a daily snack.

How much can I drink this smoothie?

There is always a risk of consuming too many smoothies, and it’s possibly high sugar content.

Fruit is already full of natural sugar, so adding artificial sweeteners or table sugar, and consuming too many smoothies is not recommended.

I prefer to drink it only once a day, and immediately after preparing it without making portions of it and saving it for later – it tends to quickly change taste and not be as fresh.

Why is this the perfect snack smoothie?

• full of healthy, fresh ingredients you already have
• a sweet creamy texture
• no added artificial sweeteners
• it’ll possibly keep you full for longer

Indrediniets You’ll Need

Bananas – provide important nutrients that may improve blood pressure control, heart health, and mood. Bananas are respectable sources of vitamin C, and contain fiber and many beneficial nutrients, including Potassium, vitamin B6, and many more. Tryptophan, an amino acid found in bananas that may support mood regulation, improve learning and memory, and maintain memory, is present in bananas.

Apples have a fiber source called pectin that acts as a prebiotic to encourage the development of good bacteria in your stomach, and they’re rich in fiber and antioxidants, according to Healthline.

Peanut butter – peanuts and peanut butter are gluten-free in their natural forms, and most brands in grocery stores make them gluten-free. Even so, it’s crucial to read the labeling before purchasing peanut butter. Given that many kinds of peanut butter have additional sugar and oil, low-sugar and homemade varieties could be preferable. In addition to having a healthy quantity of protein, peanut butter also contains important vitamins and minerals including magnesium, potassium, and zinc.

Cinnamon – adds a delicious warming effect to the smoothie and is also packed with various nutritious ingredients, with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antimicrobial properties.

Honey – without the need for additional sugars or artificial sweeteners, honey may naturally sweeten and flavor your smoothie.

Greek yogurt – adds a creamy, thick texture that can enhance the flavor of the smoothie, and contains a lot of nutrients such as calcium protein, probiotics, and vitamin B-12. It has many benefits such as boosting metabolism and improving gut health. Probiotics that are present in Greek yogurt act as good bacteria that may help to reestablish a bacterial balance in the gut. 

How To Make

1. Add ingredients to a blender – add 1 peeled and sliced banana, 2 tbsp peanut butter, 1 tbsp honey, 1 tsp cinnamon, ½ cup Greek yogurt, and 1 apple (peeled, sliced) to a blender.

2. Blend the smoothie – blend the ingredients in a high-speed blender until they are smooth and creamy. Make sure everything is fully mixed by blending it a couple of more times.

3. Fill a large glass with your banana & peanut butter, and apple smoothie and enjoy your perfect scrumptious snack!

Pro Tips & Alternatives

Add cocoa powder – Add 1 tablespoon of organic cocoa powder to make it chocolatey!

Use frozen fruit – Smoothies made just with fresh fruits might be runny and watery, but smoothies made with frozen fruit have a rich, creamy texture. In that case, you won’t have to use some other liquid, the texture will be perfectly creamy.

Blend a couple of times – Usually, if I don’t have much time for preparation, I tend to only blend it 2 times for a few seconds, and most times it doesn’t blend well and leaves some small slices of banana, and especially apple. So, try to blend it a couple of more times, to make sure everything is ideally mixed into the smoothie.

Add some milk of your choice – Preferably, I like adding water more than milk, because I don’t like the taste of almond and coconut milk, but if you insist on milk then you can add it instead of water. It’s up to your preference!

Drink it immediately, and don’t leave it in the fridge for too long – I always prefer to drink any smoothie immediately after preparing it while it’s still fresh since it tends to change its flavor and taste if left for some time.

• You can totally put it in the fridge for a couple of hours, (some people even leave it overnight), but in my experience, the taste becomes much different or completely loses its spark and freshness.

Save for later, but prevent oxidation – In the fridge, oxidation is the major cause of your smoothie going rancid and losing its flavor. When the nutrients in the smoothie are exposed to air, oxidation takes place. Reducing the amount of exposed surface area to air is crucial to preventing oxidation.

• When you store or conserve a smoothie for later, don’t let a lot of excess air in the container. Also, oxidizing causes the nutrients in your smoothie to deteriorate, reducing its nutritional value.