Here are all the smoothie toppers you’ll ever need to choose the most beautiful, nutritious, filling toppers to add extra taste and texture to your smoothies.
If you’ve followed my blog for any length of time you’ll know that I add 6 different ingredients into my smoothies to turn them into a complete meal.
Those 6 ingredients are:
- Liquid
- Fruit
- Leafy greens
- Natural protein sources such as nuts or seeds
- Extra calorie source (filler) such as oats
- Natural sweeteners such as dates or maple syrup
My meal replacement smoothie recipes, called Green Thickies are designed for busy people who need to eat healthily and lose or maintain their weight on the go without any impact on their busy lives.
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However, sometimes, we still want the health benefits and enjoyment of eating a smoothie, but we also want to incorporate some of the benefits of eating normal food.
That’s where smoothie toppings come in.
We can blend a lower-calorie smoothie made with liquid, fruit and leafy greens, pour our smoothies into a bowl, making a smoothie bowl, and then add the other 3 ingredients to the top of the smoothie as smoothie toppings.
Here are all the smoothie toppers you’ll ever need to choose the most beautiful, nutritious, filling toppers to add extra taste and texture to your smoothies.
7 Benefits Of Smoothie Toppings
The benefits of smoothie toppings are:
- Provides texture
- Gives you extra taste
- Makes the smoothie more interesting
- Provides pretty colors to stimulate appetite, especially good for children
- Allows your mouth to enjoy chewing food rather than drinking
- Gives you the ability to make a normal type meal, sit down in a civilized fashion with other people and eat in similar ways to them without them worrying that you are ‘starving yourself’ by consuming all your calories in liquid form.
- The calories can stay exactly the same and you can continue to lose weight as long as you stick to the ingredients in the recipe, or calculate your own calories, and stick to those calories.
You can also choose to add smoothie toppings on top of a glass or a mason jar and continue to drink your smoothie.
If you do this, you won’t need a spoon, but you will get little ‘surprises’ of food thrown into your mouth that you will have to chew.
Here are all my favorite smoothie toppers you can use to add to your smoothie bowls.
If you want to know the calories in these smoothie toppers, see my other post below:
189 Smoothie Ingredients List: Calories, Protein, Carbs, Fat
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- Pistachios
- Hazelnuts
- Cashews
- Walnuts
- Almonds
- Macadamia Nuts
- Peanuts
- Brazil Nuts
- Pine Nuts
- Pecans
- Tiger Nuts
- Ground Almonds
- Chia Seeds
- Flaxseed – Whole
- Hemp Seed
- Sesame Seed
- Sunflower Seed
- Pumpkin Seed
- Poppy Seeds
- Golden Flax Seeds
- Brown Flax Seeds
- Oats
- Buckwheat
- Quinoa
- White Rice
- Wholegrain Rice
- Puffed Amaranth
- Millet Flakes
- Popcorn
- Gluten-Free Cornflakes
- Dates
- Raisins
- Dried Apricots
- Dried Mango
- Dried Pineapple
- Dried Cranberries
- Dried Banana
- Dried Blueberries
- Goji Berries
- Dried Apple Rings
- Freeze Dried Strawberries
- Freeze Dried Raspberries
- Dried Figs
- Bananas
- Apple
- Apricot
- Blackberry
- Blackcurrant
- Blueberry
- Cherry
- Cranberry
- Dragonfruit (Pitaya)
- Elderberry
- Fig
- Goji Berry
- Gooseberry
- Grape
- Guava
- Jackfruit
- Kiwifruit
- Mango
- Cantaloupe Melon
- Honeydew Melon
- Watermelon
- Mulberry
- Papaya
- Passionfruit
- Peach
- Pear
- Persimmon
- Plum
- Prune
- Pineapple
- Pomegranate
- Quince
- Raspberry
- Redcurrant
- Strawberry
- Ugli Fruit
- White Currant
- Sapote
- Cacao Nibs
- Dried Coconut
- Bee Pollen
- Spirulina
- Sneaky Green Chocolates to Beat Sugar Cravings
- Raw Honey
- Maple Syrup
- Coconut Cream
- Peanut Butter
- Almond Butter
- Coconut Butter
- Homemade Caramel
- Chocolate Spread
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- Sneaky Green Sweet Berry Pancake Sauce Recipe
- Acai Berry Puree
- Cinnamon
- Cacao Powder
- Carob Powder
- Blue Mermaid Powder
- Sea Salt
- Vanilla Powder
- Acai Powder
- Lucuma Powder
- Coconut Milk (To Make Swirls)
- Chocolate Chips (Semi-sweet Dairy-free)
- Chocolate Caramel Kale Chips
- 3 Ingredient Peanut Butter Fudge
- Sliced Oven Baked Pancake Bars
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Here is a healthy smoothie recipe for you to make and garnish with your favorite toppings from the list above.
Conclusion
I tend to make a smoothie bowl about 1-2 times a week at the weekend when I sit down with my family for a meal. That way I can be sociable and it gives me something to look forward to, taste-wise.
What are your favorite smoothie toppings?
200+ Smoothie Ingredients Shopping List Printable
This bumper smoothie ingredients shopping list gives you 200+ smoothie ingredients you can choose to add to your smoothie.
Now you won’t have to use the same old ingredients over and over again in your smoothie.
You’ll be able to choose from over 200 different smoothie ingredients to help you get creative in the kitchen and bring some variety to your daily nutrients.
To download your FREE smoothie ingredients shopping list printable, either click the image above or click the link below.
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