This green apple smoothie without spinach is a delicious blend of tart green apples, sweet mango and leafy greens! It's so quick and easy to make this green smoothie for a tasty snack, and it comes together in just a few minutes.
If you love an apple smoothie, do have a peek at my apple cucumber smoothie and apple pear smoothie for light, sweet and refreshing flavors for another time!
There's just *something* about the tart sour taste of Granny Smith apples that makes me buy them again and again! We make the most of them with this green apple smoothie recipe, and it's become a go-to fresh snack or to have with breakfast for us!
Green smoothies do, of course, make the most of greens, so we use a little kale in this apple smoothie. It's an apple smoothie without spinach though, to make it more suitable for my low histamine readers.
Looking for more fun apple drinks? Do check out my apple ginger shots, my low histamine juice and my apple juice mocktail and green apple mocktail for more fruity drinks!
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⭐ Why this recipe is so good
Light and refreshing. This green smoothie is light, sweet and sour all at the same time!
Made without banana or yogurt. To make this recipe dairy free and a low histamine recipe, we make a sour green apple smoothie without banana or yogurt and make the most of frozen mango to thicken instead.
🍏 Ingredients
All the ingredients and their quantities are set out in the recipe card below.
Some notes on a few of them:
- Green apples - we use Granny Smith apples for this smoothie for their tart, sour taste that's so moreish!
- Frozen mango - this helps thicken the smoothie and balance the flavors, so make sure to use frozen fruit not fresh. It's used in place of frozen banana for this recipe.
- Apple juice - this adds a little sweetness. My low histamine readers may wish to use freshly juiced apple.
- Kale - this is optional, but adds extra goodness and makes this a green smoothie!
- Hemp seeds - to thicken and add a little protein, be sure to use shelled / hulled hemp. You could also use chia seeds.
📖 Swaps and variations
Add ginger for extra spice! You can add a little root ginger to your smoothie, for flavors similar to my apple ginger smoothie.
Use a less sour apple. There are lots of apple varieties, with Braeburn apples being a nice balance of sour and sweet flavor.
🔪 Step by step instructions
Making this sour green apple smoothie is super simple, has minimal easy to find ingredients and takes just a few minutes.
All the instructions are in the recipe card below, but these photos should help guide you.
Step 1: Add ingredients to a blender
Add cored, diced green apples, frozen mango chunks, kale, apple juice and optional hemp seeds to a blender cup (image 1). If using a high-powered blender there is no need to peel the apples.
Step 2: Blend the green apple smoothie!
Blend your green Granny Smith smoothie (image 2). To thicken the smoothie more, add some ice or a little more frozen mango. For a thinner consistency, add a little more apple juice or water.
💭 Recipe tips and notes
- Make sure to use a Granny Smith apple for a sour apple smoothie! Other types of apple will give you a sweeter smoothie.
- Use frozen mango. This will make a nice thick creamy smoothie, which fresh mango won't do so (or not as much!).
- Remove the tough stems of the kale. This helps the smoothie blend more easily.
- Use a high powered blender. Older blenders tend to struggle with blending frozen fruit and ice.
📋 Frequently asked questions
Granny Smith apples have a tart, sour and slightly sweet taste.
In their apple sweetness scale, Stemilit note that Granny Smith apples are the most tart, with Braeburn, McIntosh, Jonathon and Empire apples all having tart flavors.
You can of course use sweeter apples to make this smoothie, it just won't have that tart sour taste that many of us love!
If you use fresh mango it won't give you the same creamy, thick smoothie as frozen mango will. It's fine to use fresh mango, it will just have a thinner consistency.
🥤 More fun smoothies
Enjoy lots of smoothies for a fun and easy snack including my popular blueberry smoothie without banana, rhubarb smoothie and my mango cherry smoothie, as well as these recent recipes:
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📖 Recipe
Green Apple Smoothie
Equipment
- De-corer
Ingredients
- 2 Granny Smith apples cored, diced
- 1 cup frozen mango chunks
- ½ cup apple juice
- ½ teaspoon maple syrup more to preference
- ½ cup kale tightly packed, stems removed
- 1 tablespoon hulled hemp seeds optional
- ice
Instructions
- Remove the stems and cores from the apples and dice into large pieces.
- Add all the green apples, frozen mango, apple juice, maple syrup, hemp seeds and kale to a high speed blender and blend your smoothie. Add ice cubes to taste and texture preference.
Notes
- The hemp seeds are optional, but add a little protein and help thicken the smoothie. Make sure to use hulled / shelled hemp! You could also use chia seeds as a swap.
- For a more creamy smoothie, you can swap the apple juice for a non-dairy plant milk.
- For a thicker consistency, add more ice or frozen mango chunks. For a thinner consistency, pour in a little more apple juice or water.
- Nutritional information is auto-generated and should be understood to be an estimate.
- mango, which scores 1 with a ? as a liberator. There is a note, 'to be debated. Is often well tolerated'.
- kale, which scores 1.
- apple juice in a carton is not rated. If required, use freshly squeezed apple juice.
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