Glowing skin smoothie

Add this simple 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 we had a beer yesterday, but it’s still going.

Okay we had two beers. Sue us!

Can you blame us?

After all we were invited to something like a festival.

But a festival for old people – there was only beer and coke. And beer, our friend in our book is better than coke.

Check pubmed.

But you know what we 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. Tasty. Sounds mouthwatering, right?

Now we might be talking about healthy eating a lot and be doing our best, but we are still a normal person with human taste buds.

So we are not one of the people who can pretend to be obsessed with green smoothies. Sure, they make us feel great and all that, but they cannot replace a real breakfast. Or a real meal.

To us they’re just a snack to add more veggies and fruits to our diet.

Last week though…we had this green smoothie for breakfast.

We almost never wake up hungry. Which is totally weird, because we are hungry every single minute for the rest of the day even though we eat like Elvis during his last years.

Now. We don’t like smoothies that are sweet and too thick. It’s just a personal choice of ours.

We like to invest our breakfast calories later when we get hungry in something more satisfying like pancakes, eggs and veggie wraps or yogurt with nuts and berries.

For our smoothies, we like to choose ingredients that are 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. We'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 fresh, like a shot of energy. Now we're not gonna lie to you, is this the tastiest drink in the world?

No. To us, the tastiest drink comes close to pina colada.

This smoothie is no pina colada. But it makes us feel fresh, clean and energized.

So fresh and so clean.

And it’s 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: We're 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 fresh and a little fruity.
• Lemons: by far (just wrote by fart, oops) our 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.