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Chocolate Cherry Superfood Smoothie


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Smooth, creamy, velvety Chocolate Cherry Superfood Smoothie. Loaded with superfoods rich in essential nutrients. Made with juicy and sweet cherries, banana, cacao powder, hemp hearts, chia seeds, collagen peptides, and milk of choice. Makes for a refreshing, nutrient-dense, and rich smoothie.

Chocolate Cherry Superfood Smoothie

This Chocolate Cherry Superfood Smoothie is everything you want from any smoothie. It’s smooth, creamy, tasty, filling and packed with nutritious ingredients. With summer right around the corner and cherries in season, this will quickly become your new go-to smoothie. Make it as a delicious and refreshing breakfast or snack. Great for those hot and humid summer days quickly approaching us. Filled with fruit, some of the best superfoods; cacao, chia, hemp, and collagen peptides, and milk of choice. You will love this velvety and chocolaty smoothie.

Health Benefits of Cherries:

  • Promotes Healthy Digestion
  • Rich in Antioxidants
  • Helps Improve Sleep
  • Reduces Cholesterol
  • Boosts Immunes System
  • Anti-inflammatory

Superfood Loaded Smoothie:

This smoothie is super healthy as it is packed with fruit and superfoods. Cacao powder, chia, hemp hearts, and collagen peptides are all healthy and nutrient-dense superfoods. Making this smooth, creamy, velvety smoothie loaded with antioxidants, anti-inflammatory properties, protein, fiber, and more.

  1. Cacao Powder: rich in antioxidants and magnesium, great source of vitamins and minerals, reduces stress and regulates blood sugar.
  2. Chia Seeds: Highly nutrient-dense, excellent source of fiber, rich in antioxidants and protein, high in omega-3 fatty acids.
  3. Hemp Hearts: Excellent source of protein and fiber, anti-inflammatory, antioxidants, reduces inflammation, high in omega-3.
  4. Collagen Peptides: Great for skin, promotes bone health, muscle mass, and relieves joint pain, healthy gut health, great for hair and nail growth.

What you need to make this Chocolate Cherry Superfood Smoothie:

Ingredients:

  • Frozen Cherries
  • Frozen Banana
  • Cacao Powder
  • Chia Seeds
  • Hemp Hearts
  • Collagen Peptides
  • Unsweetened Almond Milk or Oat Milk

Equipment:

  • Blender

How to make Chocolate Cherry Superfood Smoothie:

  1. Place all ingredients in a high speed blender. Blend for 60 seconds or until smooth and rich consistency is reached. Use a spoon to check smoothie and make sure there are’t any chunks of fruit left. If there is, place cover back on blender and continue to blend for another few seconds until smoothie is completely smooth. 
  2. Pour smoothie into glass or mason jar and enjoy. Keep refrigerated for up to 8 hours if not consuming right away.

Not a fan of bananas in your smoothies?

If you don’t like bananas in your smoothies, you can use frozen cauliflower rice as a substitute. Frozen cauliflower rice makes smoothies creamy like frozen bananas do. Don’t worry, your smoothie won’t taste like cauliflower. Trust me! Plus it will get the added nutrition cauliflower has to offer.

Meal Prepping it:

Smoothies are always great for adding to your weekly meal planning. This smoothie recipe only calls for a few ingredients which makes it super quick and easy to make. Add it to your weekly meal plan for those days you know you won’t have much time to make an elaborate breakfast. For those days that you know you will need to take breakfast on-the-go!

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Chocolate Cherry Superfood Smoothie

Smooth, creamy, velvety Chocolate Cherry Superfood Smoothie. Loaded with superfoods rich in essential nutrients. Made with juicy and sweet cherries, banana, cacao powder, hemp hearts, chia seeds, collagen peptides, and milk of choice. Makes for a refreshing, nutrient-dense, and rich smoothie.
Course Drinks
Cuisine American
Keyword Chocolate Cherry Superfood Smoothie
Prep Time 5 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes
Servings 1 serving
Calories 480 kcal
Author Angelica Arias

Ingredients

  • 1 cup frozen cherries
  • 1 frozen banana
  • 1 tbsp cacao powder
  • 1 tbsp chia seeds
  • 1 tbsp hemp hearts
  • 1 scoop collagen peptides
  • 1 cup unsweetened almond milk or oat milk

Instructions

  1. Place all ingredients in a high speed blender. Blend for 60 seconds or until smooth and rich consistency is reached. Use a spoon to check smoothie and make sure there are't any chunks of fruit left. If there is, place cover back on blender and continue to blend for another few seconds until smoothie is completely smooth.

  2. Pour smoothie into glass or mason jar and enjoy. Keep refrigerated for up to 8 hours if not consuming right away.

Recipe Notes

Not a fan of bananas in your smoothies?

If you don’t like bananas in your smoothies, you can use frozen cauliflower rice as a substitute. Frozen cauliflower rice makes smoothies creamy like frozen bananas do. Don’t worry, your smoothie won’t taste like cauliflower. Trust me! Plus it will get the added nutrition cauliflower has to offer.

Nutrition Facts
Chocolate Cherry Superfood Smoothie
Amount per Serving
Calories
480
% Daily Value*
Fat
 
14
g
22
%
Saturated Fat
 
1
g
6
%
Trans Fat
 
0.02
g
Polyunsaturated Fat
 
8
g
Monounsaturated Fat
 
2
g
Sodium
 
121
mg
5
%
Potassium
 
972
mg
28
%
Carbohydrates
 
82
g
27
%
Fiber
 
14
g
58
%
Sugar
 
51
g
57
%
Protein
 
16
g
32
%
Vitamin A
 
740
IU
15
%
Vitamin C
 
20
mg
24
%
Calcium
 
472
mg
47
%
Iron
 
6
mg
33
%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.

*Number of total servings in estimated. Actual number of servings may vary depending on your own personal preference in portion sizes.

**Nutritional values shown are general guidelines for 1 serving using the ingredients listed above. These numbers do not reflect and may vary depending on substitutions, additions and/or different brands and/or other ingredients that may be used. 

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