Recipe of the day: Four delicious mango smoothie recipes to energise you

With mangoes being in season at the moment, you should make use of the opportunity to try these delicious mango smoothie recipes, which can also help with your weight loss journey.

Four tasty mango smoothie recipes to try:

Healthy Raspberry Mango smoothie

Ingredients

• ½ cup nonfat plain Greek yogurt
• 1 cup mango
• ½ cup fresh or frozen raspberries
• ½ banana
• ½ teaspoon of chia seeds
• ½ cup milk

Method

1. Add all the mango smoothie in ingredients to a blender, and blend until smooth.
2. Serve in 2 glasses.

Mango Pineapple Smoothie

Ingredients

• ½ cup fat-free plain Greek yogurt
• 1 cup fresh or frozen pineapple chunks
• 1 cup mango
• ½ cup milk
• 8 ice cubes optional

Method

1. Add all the ingredients to a blender, and blend until smooth.
2. Serve the mango smoothies in 2 glasses.

Mango and Spinach smoothie

If you are wanting to get into green smoothies this year, this mango and spinach smoothie is the perfect combo to start with. As spinach has practically no flavour, all you will taste in this smoothie is mango.

Ingredients

• 1 mango – peeled pit removed, and chopped
• 1 banana
• 1 cup fresh baby spinach leaves
• 3/4 cup almond milk unsweetened
• 8 ice cubes optional

Method:

1. Add all the mango spinach smoothie ingredients to a blender, blend until smooth.
2. Pour into two glasses and serve.

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Mango Chia Smoothie

Chia seeds are an excellent source of fibre. Fibre takes longer to digest and makes you feel fuller for longer, hence making it the perfect superfood if you are on a weight-loss journey.

Ingredients

• 1 cup mango
• 2 tablespoons chia seeds
• 1 large banana
• 1 ½ cups almond milk
• 4 ice cubes optional

Method

1. Add all the mango smoothie ingredients to a blender, blend until smooth.
2. Pour into 2 glasses and serve.

*These recipes were found on loseweightbyeating.com