Add this easy healing glowing skin smoothie recipe to your daily routine to reduce inflammation, bloat and improve your skin health!
Clean eating challenge is on. It is going. It’s not that clean, as I had a beer yesterday, but it’s still going.
Okay I had two beers. Sue me!
Can you really blame me?
After all I was invited to something like a festival.
But a festival for old people – there was only beer and coke. And beer, my friend in my book is better than coke.
Check pubmed.
But you know what I had before that festival, where everyone was pushing their walkers to move forward?
This.
Coming back to the clean-eating spirit – this is a anti-inflammation green smoothie for glowing skin. Mmmmmm. Yummy. Sounds mouthwatering, right?
Now I might be talking about healthy eating a lot and be doing my best, but I am still a normal person with human taste buds.
So I am not one of the people who can pretend to be obsessed with green smoothies. Sure, they make me feel great and all that, but they cannot replace a real breakfast. Or a real meal.
To me they’re just a snack to add more veggies and fruits to my diet.
Last week though…I had this green smoothie for breakfast.
I almost never wake up hungry. Which is totally weird, because I am hungry every single minute for the rest of the day even though I eat like Elvis during his last years.
Now. I don’t like smoothies that are very sweet and too thick. It’s just a personal choice of mine.
I like to invest my breakfast calories later when I get really hungry in something more satisfying like pancakes, eggs and veggie wraps or yogurt with nuts and berries.
For my smoothies, I like to choose ingredients that are very nutrient-dense, antioxidant-rich, rich in anti-inflammatory factors and detoxifying, but at the same time low in calories.
And this smoothie is exactly that. I’ve had a variation of it every single day of this clean eating week and it’s a great start to the day.
It’s not sweet, but very fresh, like a shot of energy. Now I’m not gonna lie to you, is this the tastiest drink in the world?
No. To me, the tastiest drink comes very close to pina colada.
This smoothie is no pina colada. But it makes me feel fresh, clean and energized.
So fresh and so clean.
And it’s super healthy.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY BENEFITS
This recipe requires just 5 minutes and 4 ingredients, but it has many health and beauty benefits. Let’s take it one ingredient at a time:
- Ginger: I’m not sure if there’s something ginger is not good for. Seriously. It’s anti-inflammatory, antioxidative, antimicrobial, detoxifying, it protects the liver and it tastes really fresh and a little fruity.
- Lemons: by far (just wrote by fart, oops) my most favorite fruits (together with oranges and watermelons). At first, you might think they’re sour, but once you get used to them, you start craving that freshness every single day. They’re loaded with collagen-building vitamin C, detoxifying limonoids that help the liver eliminate carcinogens, and are alkalizing, which enhances detoxification even more.
- Spinach: loaded with carotenoids and chlorophyll, great for detox and for skin, gut health and overall well-being.
- Flax seeds: a great beauty food, high-fiber and rich in omega-3’s – great to get rid of toxins that might be cluttering your intestines. Flax seeds also improve the omega 6/ omega-3 ratio and thus reduce chronic inflammation and related problems.
Now, if the taste is not for you, feel free to add a frozen banana or a mango chunks to this – it will make the smoothie sweeter and the texture creamier.
4-ingredient glowing skin smoothie
Perfect light green smoothie for glowing skin to reduce inflammation and bloating. You can use your own measurements, but this is what I used for 2-3 smoothies, that were not too thick.
Ingredients
- a knob of fresh ginger, chopped or grated
- 1 cup spinach or kale
- 1 lemon
- 1 tbsp ground flax seeds
- 3 cups water
- ice (optional)
Instructions
- Wash veggies.
- Place everything in a blender and blend until smooth.
- Enjoy!