This Kiwi Smoothie is sure to brighten your day!  Made with banana, avocado, and spinach, it’s sweet and tart, and deliciously addicting. Vegan!
This Kiwi Smoothie is sure to brighten your day!  Made with banana, avocado, and spinach, it's sweet and tart, and deliciously addicting. Vegan!
Kiwis are full of vitamins and nutrients – we try to get them in regularly. Here is a tasty Kiwi smoothie we’ve been making! Kiwis can be quite tart, so be sure to let them ripen a bit before using them.

Kiwi Smoothie Ingredients

  • ripe kiwis
  • avocado
  • banana
  • spinach or other greens
  • plant-based milk, vanilla-flavored, is nice
  • Sweetener of choice- maple, honey, agave, coconut sugar
  • ice
ingredients in kiwi smoothie

How to make the BEST Smoothies (10 tips)

1. Never stick a spoon or spatula in a running blender.
2. Pour the liquid in the blender first. Then add the fruit. This will help to get things moving.  Never, no matter what, add sticky or thick things like peanut butter in the blender first.
3. Start the blender on the lowest speed and gradually increase the speed to high, and shut it down the same way, gradually slowing it down.

4. Hold the blender lid firmly on– especially when starting and stoping the blender – if you do remove the lid while it is running, gradually reduce blender speed to lowest setting before turning it complexly off.

5. If you can’t eat fresh fruit fast enough, freeze it for smoothies. (Peel it, cut it into small chunks, put it in a zip lock) Anything goes grapes, apples, kiwi, bananas, berries, oranges, mangoes, anything really. Avocados can even be frozen.
6. In winter, add something hearty or rich like bananas, nut butters, tahini, oatmeal or avocado, for a little extra heartiness.
7. A smoothie is not a milkshake. Try to keep it healthy. Otherwise, just have a milkshake.  Use soy, almond, rice or coconut milk, fruit or veggie juice, aloe or just water. Use maple syrup, brown rice syrup, honey, agave, or fruit itself,  as sweetener.
8. Play around with adding fresh herbs and spices and seeds.
9. Chilly frosty smoothies are yummy. Room-temperature smoothies are not as tasty. If not using any frozen fruit, throw in a few ice cubes. It makes it so much more palatable.
10. If your smoothie is bland…try adding a little citrus juice, or zest to brighten up the flavor.

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This Kiwi Smoothie is sure to brighten your day!  Made with banana, avocado, and spinach, it's sweet and tart, and deliciously addicting. Vegan!

Kiwi Smoothie

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This Kiwi Smoothie is sure to brighten your day!  Made with banana, avocado, and spinach, it’s sweet and tart, and deliciously addicting. Vegan!


Ingredients

Units Scale
  • 1/2 an avocado
  • 3 ripe kiwis- peeled
  • 1 banana
  • handful baby spinach
  • 1/2 cup1 cup plant-based milk, vanilla flavor is nice
  • 1 tablespoon sweetener- honey, maple or agave
  • 1 cup ice cubes
  • optional: squeeze of lime juice

Instructions

  1. Place the liquid in the blender first, then kiwi, banana, avocado, spinach and honey. Blend on low speed, increasing to high speed. Blend it up until creamy and very smooth.
  2. Taste-kiwis very in tartness- add more sweetener or a little squeeze of lime juice if you like.
  3. Add ice and blend again. Scrape down sides if necessary.

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 10 ounces
  • Calories: 239
  • Sugar: 25.9 g
  • Sodium: 79.4 mg
  • Fat: 6.4 g
  • Saturated Fat: 0.9 g
  • Carbohydrates: 43.2 g
  • Fiber: 7.3 g
  • Protein: 6.7 g
  • Cholesterol: 0 mg

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  1. I was wondering what the 1T was in the ingredients list?
    It is listed as ⅛ cup lime juice +1T?
    This smoothly has a beautiful texture and colour but was quite tart! I experimented with adding some dried lemon myrtle powder (leaves) & a bit more honey – better but I’ll cut back on the lime juice if the kiwis are more tart in flavour next time. Thanks for these delicious healthy WholeFood recipes 🙂






    1. Hi Lynne- thanks for the feedback- helpful! I made some adjustments to the recipe- it all depends on how ripe the kiwis are, so adjusting to taste may be the way to go here. 🙂

    1. Hi William, this is located at the bottom of the recipe card. Do you not see it? maybe the calculator was down, but it is working now. 😉

  2. good morning i was wondering if you had any other smoothie recipes to share? i am in the process of detoxing and need inspiration. my plan is to do a 3 day detox to cleanse and get my body and mind in a healthy place. I eat fish/seafood 2x a week, no dairy or other animal products. Thank you for your time.
    Elsa

    1. Elsa there are several smoothies on the blog- just type smoothie in the search bar and good luck with your detox!

  3. Thank you, it was so good! I used the ice cubes this time, but would it still work leaving them out completely, since it’s winter?

    Please post more smoothie recipes. I’d love a not-boring one with blueberries from you 🙂






  4. This looks so delicious! I keep finding myself coming back to this blog for healthy treats and ideas and still i am impressed with the unique recipes you share! That Kiwi mix looks so good! I think i might just have to try it out. Thanks for the goodie yet again!

  5. In this smoothie is a vitamin C bomb. The kiwi and lime combo is perfect. I gathered the best paleo desserts on my blog here – http://fitbodybuzz.com/paleo-desserts/ and I listed this smoothie recipe as well. Thanks for the great recipe and presentation.

  6. This looks delicious. Surprisingly, I have all the ingredients on hand. Re her suggestion to not put spoons in the blender, I have a wooden spoon I call “the object lesson”. I used it instead of pusher in the food processor.

  7. I am not really fond of including ice cubes into the smoothies, I like to freeze my fruits 🙂 Which liquid do you recommend if we do not have vegetable milk? Which juice suits this smoothie better? thanks!

    1. Yes, absolutely freeze the kiwi! I really think most fruit juices would taste good here…apple, orange, pineapple…play around with it!

  8. Wow, that is a crazy color. I need to eat something like this for breakfast more often, too. I’ll try it!

  9. Hi there. The current Food on Friday on Carole’s Chatter is collecting links to posts about shakes and smoothies. I do hope you link this lovely one in. This is the link . Please do pop back to check out some of the other links – there are a lot of good ones already. Have a great week.

  10. Tried this. It was pretty good except I think I put a little too much honey in it. Next time I will put less or maybe omit it completely.

  11. Just got a bag of kiwis from my CSA — I had NO idea what to do with them, but this sounds like a great idea!

  12. i just made this and it’s super yummy! The perfect balance of sweet from the honey, rich creaminess from the avocado and tartness from the kiwi! mmmmmmmmm!

  13. Oh wow this looks delicious. I’m lucky enough to live on an avocado orchard, however finding MANY things to do with avocado is hard and shockingly it’s easy to get sick of them. Thanks for the recipe!

  14. This sounds so satisfying! One of my favorite snacks is avocado with a sprinkle of salt, squirt of lemon, and drizzle of honey. This is like the creamier, smoothier version of my favorite snack! Such a great idea.

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