What is your favorite protein shake recipe?

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Kelly Powers, MA, RD · Answer

What is your favorite protein shake recipe? So hands down, mine is a smoothie. I will post a link for a blog post on how to build a balanced smoothie here. Basically it's going to be a half of a frozen banana, about a cup of frozen fruit, two handfuls of spinach, a scoop of protein powder. Currently I'm using Ritual Vanilla Protein Powder, love it. A scoop of collagen peptides, use vital proteins. A dash or two of cinnamon if it works with the fruit and flavors I'm using. One to two healthy fats, usually a tablespoon of peanut butter, a tablespoon of hemp seeds. If I'm doing a more tropical smoothie, then I will do a quarter of an avocado. And about a cup of liquid. It may be coconut water that's unsweetened, it may be almond milk, it may be cashew milk, or regular water too. Any of those are fine and it's a great formula. It's kind of a really good template to use for variety and for a protein dense, high fiber healthy fat, well balanced protein shake or smoothie that works as a meal. Enjoy!

Emily Zorn, MS, RD · Answer

What is your favorite protein? Shake recipe. Well, every protein shake I have, has to have a few things, got to have fruits, got of a veggie and of course, it's got to have some protein. So let's start with the fruit. Any fruit will do for me. I really like having mangoes and banana in it. I feel like every Smoothie has to have a banana, just gives it some really nice creaminess to it. So for me, Mako banana my go to Veggie is spinach just Blends right in it, gives it that green color, but I don't really taste State. And you've got so many good nutrients from spinach. So it's got a spinach for my protein. I'll go one or two route. So if I have some whey protein laying around the house, I'll do a scoop or two of that. If not, I just use some Greek yogurt. That's a lot of good protein in it. So that is what, I'll add to my protein shake. And then for a liquid, it's sometimes water. If I use water, I'll add some honey to it as well, but I also like to sometimes add some soy milk, add some more protein. In or if I really just want some sweetness, or maybe I'm going to go do an intense workout later that day I'll add juice of some kind. I find that apple juice is the best one but typically for me, it's either soy, milk or water as my liquid.

Molly Morgan, RD, CDN · Answer

I have literally written hundreds of protein shake recipes and I have to tell you, probably the number one pick of most athletes that I work with. Is my chocolate, peanut butter protein, shake. That's what I'm sharing with you today and it's a super simple recipe. It's just three ingredients. You need one cup of chocolate milk, you need one to two tablespoons of peanut butter, and you need one. Frozen banana remove that peel. Put it all together in a blender blend. It until it's icy and smooth, and it has this nice. Nice creamy thick texture. It's about 400 calories and 16 grams of protein, and it's absolutely refreshing. I hope you love the shaykh. Stay healthy.

Tara Collingwood, MS, RDN, CSSD · Answer

Ooh, favorite protein shake recipe. So here is the anatomy of a smoothie or a protein shake. You've gotta have ice. I like it nice and thick and creamy and the ice is gonna do that. You've gotta have some kind of liquid. So you could use milk, you could use juice, coconut water, or just plain water. You can also then have protein. So I want to make sure that I'm either using protein powder or you could use Greek yogurt and the protein powder of course can vary. I always buy vanilla protein powder because it's more versatile. If I want to make it chocolate, then I add some cocoa powder. So just like the baking cocoa powder, that's all they do to make it chocolate. So you can save yourself some money by just buying vanilla and then you can use it with anything. And then of course fruit. So I often will have fruit that is in my freezer. I take bananas when they're going bad, break them up into small chunks, of course peel them, put them into a Ziploc. Same thing that I do with any other fruit. I'll haul the strawberries, cut them in half and put them in the freezer. My secret weapon is extracts. So you can get peppermint extract and put that with a chocolate, with a vanilla protein powder, cocoa powder, banana, and then put a little bit of peppermint extract and now you've got a mint chocolate smoothie. Of course peanut butter powder is gonna give you the peanut butter flavor, but not all the calories and the fat that regular peanut butter will have. Back to extracts. So you can get the peppermint, you can get vanilla of course, you can get a amaretto or almond flavor.

Dr. Emily Werner, PhD, RD, CSSD · Answer

My favorite protein shake recipe is one that can include a lot of fruits and a lot of vegetables. So my personal preference is a kind of green smoothie. Anything with spinach, kale, I love tropical fruits, so I'll throw some pineapple and mango. And then typically, I actually would prefer to use whole foods instead of a protein powder. So I love like Greek yogurt or fat-free milk. Using those as my proteins instead of a protein powder. But if I'm going to use a powder, I'll lean towards something vanilla or unflavored. But honestly, anything you can do to get more fruits and vegetables in the diet, put them in your protein shake.

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