Mangos are sweet and delicious tropical fruits that are native to India and grown throughout the world, they have been grown in India for over 4,000 years. Mangos have a very sweet taste and are very juicy and are ideal for use in a smoothie. You should always use real fruit in a mango smoothie recipe rather than mango juice. Mangoes and bananas are amongst the highest calorie fruits, mangoes are roughly 135 calories per medium sized mango, and bananas are roughly 100 calories for a medium sized banana. If you combine mango’s and bananas into a smoothie then they make a great drink that you can have for breakfast that will keep you full until lunch time.

The flavor of mango is strong enough that it can be used on its own to create a great mango smoothie but many recipes for mango smoothie tend to add other fruits as well such as adding pineapple to create a mango pineapple smoothie. Mangos are hard fruits to find ripe, so mango smoothies tend to be seasonal unless you are smart enough to freeze them when they are in season in which case you can enjoy them all year round. Frozen mango lends the smoothie its sweetness and smooth texture while adding vitamins B6, C, and E. Mango blends well with frozen strawberries, strawberry yogurt with pina colada juice and of course pineapple.

1 large ripe mango, peeled and chopped
1/2 tsp (2 1/2 ml) grated fresh ginger
1/3 cup (75 ml) frozen orange juice concentrate
1 1/2 cups (375 ml) cold milk
1 cup (250 ml) ice In a blender


1 large mango diced and chilled
1 banana 1/2 cup of yogurt
3 rings of canned pineapple
1 cup of orange juice
6 ice cubes


2 frozen, ripe bananas
1 mango, peeled and sliced
10 ounces calcium fortified orange juice
1 cup low fat or fat free vanilla or mandarin orange yogurt

Mango smoothies are not only refreshing and delicious, but they also combine many health benefits. They make a healthy breakfast choice or a delicious, light dessert in the hot summer months. Packed with vitamins and minerals, a mango smoothie is great before or after a hard workout. Also as many people probably have heard of but never tasted mango before so putting mango into a smoothie either as a main ingredient or to compliment other ingredients makes them a talking point.