Goji Berry Smoothie Recipe
Expand the range of fruit and veg in your diet with goji berries
Along with eating a minimum of five portions of fruit and veg a day, a good target for your diet is to eat 30 different varieties of fruit and veg a week. That’s according to Dr Megan Rossi, a dietitian and research fellow at King’s College London, who gave us the lowdown on prebiotics. So try this goji berry smoothie recipe and add another fruit to this week’s tally.
This tasty, low-fat berry smoothie can also be enjoyed as a snack in Coach’s weight loss meal plan for women and weight loss diet plan for men.
For more tasty fruit-filled drinks, browse more of the best smoothie recipes or refuel after a big workout with our protein shake recipes.
Goji Berry Smoothie Recipe
Ingredients (Serves One)
- Handful of goji berries
- Handful of blueberries
- Handful of strawberries
- 1 small banana
- 100ml skimmed milk
- Honey to taste
Nutrition
We turned to Myfitnesspal, one of the best weight-loss apps for calorie counting, to help us crunch the numbers and give approximate nutritional quantities for this recipe. The smoothie contains 274 calories, with 62g of carbohydrate, 6g of fibre, 6g of protein and 2g of fat.
More About The Ingredients In This Goji Berry Smoothie Recipe
Goji berries
Rich in vitamins and minerals, goji berries are bursting with vitamin C. One handful of goji berries also provides 100% of your recommended daily allowance of vitamin B2.
Skimmed milk
Skimmed milk has had virtually all of its fat removed, but still has plenty of calcium. Discover more foods that contain calcium and why we need it.
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Lucy Miller is an experienced journalist who has worked across a range of health and fitness titles. She was the fitness and nutrition editor at Men’s Fitness UK, and has also been fitness editor of both Health & Fitness UK and Women’s Fitness UK. Lucy qualified as a NASM-certified personal trainer and nutritionist in 2008.
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