Orange Pear Kale Green Smoothie

Name: Orange Pear Kale Green Smoothie
Prep time: 10 min
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 3
Ingredients: 1/4 cup orange juice; 1/2 cup green grapes; 1 pear, cut into slices or chunks; 1 orange, peeled; 1/2 cup frozen pineapple chunks; 1/2 of a frozen banana; 1 cup kale, well packed

by NancyC | nancy-c.com

3 Servings

10 min

I still had some extra kale after making a kale salad, so I thought I’d make a smoothie with some of it! I had read awhile back that kale has 10 times the vitamin C, 4 times the vitamin A, almost 2 times the vitamin K, and more calcium and vitamin B6 than spinach does. If that’s true, kale is definitely super-nutritious!

Usually I add honey to sweeten up my smoothies, but the 5 different kinds of fruit in this, especially the pineapple, make the smoothie sweet enough on its’ own. When you put all the ingredients in the blender, you might think that 1/4 cup orange juice is not enough liquid, but it blends up into a really nice, thick smoothie—the perfect consistency!