Photos by Rikki Snyder
This super-simple Pineapple Coconut Vitamin C Smoothie hides a powerful little secret inside all that creamy deliciousness: it's got 140 mg of the cold-fighting vitamin. For women, that's nearly double the recommended daily allowance (source: Mayo Clinic). Want even more Vitamin C? Consider adding vitamin-rich papaya, guava, kiwi, more orange juice (or orange segments), a few fresh kale leaves, or even a few sprigs of parsley.
Servings: 1 smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 cup fresh or frozen pineapple chunks
- 1 medium frozen banana
- ¾ cup light coconut milk
- ½ cup pure orange juice
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in a blender and puree until smooth. Pour into a glass and serve with a straw.
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I love these tropical flavors!
Question: Could you go sans-banana? Would it still taste super good and stay smoothie-ish?"
Hi Liz, I haven't tried it without a banana ... with so few ingredients, it is pretty essential to the recipe, but might be totally doable! Perhaps add some ice to keep it cold and a little Greek yogurt for texture.
Is the coconut milk the one out of the can or the cold case paper jug?
Sky, I used canned lite coconut milk. But it's a pretty flexible recipe; either will work! The canned coconut just tastes richer.
Beautiful pictures!! I'm going to have to try this!
Hi, Karen, I'm new convert and still missing meat sometimes 🙂 Found this while searching, wow, thank you, It tastes great! And almost cost nothing since I live in tropical country and plant my own banana and coconut trees, well, at least my dad do 🙂 thanks again for the share.
Do you know about how many calories are in this smoothie? Thanks!
Hi Sara, we don't provide nutritional info here but we do love the recipe analysis tool at about.com. http://caloriecount.about.com/cc/recipe_analysis.php