These Are the Best Recipes for Back-to-School Breakfast Smoothies

It’s that time of the year when early morning kitchen blenders are buzzing and moms, dads and kids are searching for the best recipes for back-to-school breakfast smoothies. Check out Health eCooks' new collection of easy, time-saving and healthy back-to-school smoothie recipes. Health eCooks is a trusted recipe website filled with dietitian-approved and chef tested recipes for healthy kids and people searching for heart healthy and gluten free recipes. Smoothies are an easy drink to start the day for everyone who wants a morning dose of healthy fruit and vegetables. A cool and delicious smoothie at breakfast will boost a student’s energy throughout the school day.

Here's the best ingredients to make nutritious smoothies

Although moms and dads can pick up a commercially canned or fast-food smoothies, blended breakfast drinks taste best when they are made fresh in your own kitchen using generous servings of fresh, frozen, or juiced fruit and vegetables. It’s always a good idea to add protein powder, dairy milk or non-dairy milk, nut butter, yogurt, or frozen yogurt to smoothen the texture and boost the protein energy of a smoothie. Those high protein ingredients keep you filling full until lunch time or longer.

What is the best smoothie recipe for you? That depends on your age.

Do you have a favorite smoothie? The smoothie recipe you like best may well depend on your age. Health eCooks audience data and retail consumer research shows that kids, moms, dads and grandparents each prefer different ingredients in their smoothies:

Teens and 20 year olds are the top smoothie drinkers. Smoothies make an easy breakfast on the bus or on the ride to work. This back-to-school generation prefers using non-dairy alternatives in their smoothies.

Dads prefer nutrient-rich protein smoothies for morning energy and that’s probably why Health eCooks banana smoothie is popular with men.

Moms, and many women, seem to prefer plant-based ingredients in their smoothies.

Baby Boomers are on the smoothie bandwagon, too. Grandparents trend toward simple, light and nutritious smoothie blends.

If you’re looking for healthy back to school breakfast ideas, try making a fruit smoothie from Health eCooks. Fruit is the most appealing ingredient in any smoothie and it’s a naturally sweet way to start the day.

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