Recipe: The Banana Beet Smoothie

A sweet, earthy smoothie with beets and hemp seed that is perfect for a light meal before exercise. Some have described this smoothie as an earthy cotton candy.

Yields 16 oz

½ beet
1⁄3 cup halved strawberries
1 cup spinach leaves
¼ avocado
¾ frozen banana
Thumb-sized piece of ginger
1 tbsp hemp seed
Fill to 500 mL with almond milk

Blend all the ingredients in a blender until smooth and creamy, then serve.

Find more smoothies from The Juice Truck recipe book, here.

Excerpted from The Juice Truck. Copyright © 2017 Zach Berman and Ryan Slater. Published by Appetite by Random House®, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited. Reproduced by arrangement with the Publisher. All rights reserved.

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