Easy Pomegranate Smoothie (Skinny Shake Recipe) + Video

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Pomegranate Smoothie Skinny Shake is a delicious drink to start your day off right! The power of pomegranate may help boost fat burning too!

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Kick start your diet in an incredibly healthy and delicious way!! This tasty detoxifying drink will knock your socks off. 

What I love about this pomegranate smoothie recipe is that it’s one of those healthy recipes that doesn’t “taste” healthy.

Simple ingredients give it a tart flavor, but adding in the strawberries is a great way to add a pop of natural sweetness. 

Smoothie recipes like this are also super simple to change up and taste differently.

You can have a blueberry pomegranate smoothie by adding fresh blueberries, are change up the healthy smoothie recipe by using a frozen banana, chia seeds, frozen berries, and more. 

There are so many fun and new favorite ways that you can create this the next time you make it, but for the first time, follow the simple steps on the printable recipe card below.

I promise you that the flavor of this pomegranate berry smoothie is one that your taste buds will love – and the added ingredients and fresh fruits add a lot of great health benefits, too. 

It’s always the perfect time of year to make this healthy smoothie or healthy breakfast recipe, so why wait? You’ll love the flavor and creamy texture! 

frozen strawberries in the blender

Pomegranate Smoothie Skinny Shake 

My skinny shake recipe makes a scrumptious pomegranate smoothie, to enjoy once a day, mid-morning.

If you love smoothies, you’ll flip for the strawberry and pomegranate flavors here. They are fruity, bright and insanely delicious!!

If you love fruit flavored drinks but you don’t need anything particularly healthy, make a strawberry banana smoothie instead!

Other drink recipes that are sure to become family favorites are blueberry banana smoothies and banana orange smoothies.

adding pomegranate juice to frozen strawberries in the blender

What’s a Skinny Shake?

So, a few years ago on the Dr. Oz show, a 7-Day crash diet was featured that really piqued my interest.  Dr. Joel Fuhrman was the guest.

He discussed many ways to kick start fat burning in your body, and who doesn’t want that?!

One of my favorite parts of Dr. Fuhrman’s plan is this detoxifying drink, which he calls a “Skinny Shake”.

adding lemon juice to pomegranate smoothie in a blender

Ingredient Notes

This pomegranate smoothie doesn’t get any simpler to make. It’s just pure, healthy fresh fruit and water!

  • Pomegranates are classified as a superfruit because of its antioxidant properties, and they’re full of vitamins and nutrients.
  • Strawberries, as well as other berries, are lower in carbs, so they don’t spike blood sugar like other high sugar fruits can.

RECIPE VIDEO

Watch the video in the recipe card at the bottom of this post to see how easy it is to make this recipe!

Needless to say, this is my favorite healthy drink. My entire family loves it, and it’s packed with flavor and it’s really refreshing.

A skinny shake smoothie makes the perfect mid morning pick me up.

We try to balance eating healthy, and little treats like this one certainly help.

A healthy breakfast and a fat burning morning snack sure make the occasional treat a lot easier on the hips.

adding pomegranate seeds to the top of a skinny shake

Tips for Making Your Pomegranate Smoothie

  • Be sure to layer the ingredients in the blender.
  • Scrape the sides down as often as necessary.
  • Use a high powered blender for best results.
  • If you have a standard blender and not a high speed model, try using 1/4 fresh strawberries and 3/4 frozen. This will help make the blending easier.
  • For a super thick shake-like consistency, add a few ice cubes to the blender.
closeup of pomegranate smoothie

Enjoy!
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Easy Pomegranate Smoothie (Skinny Shake Recipe) + Video

Donna Elick
Pomegranate Smoothie Skinny Shake is a delicious drink to start your day off right! The power of pomegranate may help boost fat burning too!
5 stars from 2 reviews
Tried this recipe?Please comment and review!
Prep Time 5 minutes
Total Time 5 minutes
Course Drink
Cuisine American
Method Blender
Servings 2

Equipment

  • blender You can use any blender, but I absolutely love this high speed model! I use it to make ice cream, smoothies, soups, tomato sauce and drinks like this one.

Ingredients
 

  • 4 cups frozen strawberries
  • 1 cup pomegranate juice
  • 1 cup water
  • juice of 1/2 fresh lemon

Instructions
 

  • Layer ingredients into blender in the order listed. Blend until smooth. Scrape down the sides as necessary or use food pusher to help blend.
  • Serve and enjoy.

Video

Nutrition

Serving: 1 | Calories: 159cal | Carbohydrates: 38g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 20mg | Sugar: 30g | Fiber: 6g | Calcium: 63mg | Iron: 1mg

All nutritional information is based on third party calculations and is only an estimate. Each recipe’s nutritional value will vary depending on the ingredients used, measuring methods, and portion sizes.

Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
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Originally published January 2014, updated and republished June 2024

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40 Comments

  1. My husband will want this for breakfast – soon! Printed and can't wait to give it a try! Happy New Year Donna.

    1. Skip the pomegranate juice and substitute actual pomegranate kernels or blueberries. Also, you should be able to find unsweetened pomegranate juice or unsweetened cranberry juice in a local health market.

  2. I put the recipe into my go meals app because I am diabetic and for the whole recipe it looks like 324 cal., 78g carbs, 4g protein, and 0 fat. It says the recipe is 2 serving so I hope that gives you all an idea. I am going to be trying this �� Thank you for the recipe. Love to all <3

  3. I put this into my go meals. I am diabetic. 324 calories, 78g carbs, 4g protein, and 0 fat. This is for the whole recipe which is 2 servings. I hope this helps. I will be trying this and thanks for the recipe. (Strawberry and pomegranate)

  4. Well I had my husband go out and buy the ingredients to make this smoothie and I am not sure it is for diabetics. So for the full recipe with the ingredients I got it is 500 calories, 138g carbs, 0 fat, and 3g protein. Now she did say that the recipe was two servings so it would break down to 250 calories, 69g carbs, 0 fat and 1.5 protein. Still for diabetics (at least for me) I am restricted to 45g of carbs. I guess if you are just watching your calorie intake and not your carbs this doesn't seem bad at all. I just know I will have to reduce my quantity even more to be able to drink it, but I am still going to give it a try. Love to all and I hope this helps. xoxo ~A

  5. I used the strawberries and added some Greek yoghurt to thicken because I used coconut water instead of the juice.

  6. I looked this recipe up on the Dr. Oz site and this is not the original recipe. The original recipe is:
    1 cup ice
    4 oz pomegranate juice
    1 cup frozen strawberries
    Squeeze of lemon

  7. I tried this pomegranate juice recipe and this tastes just awesome. I recommend everyone to try this recipe they will love this recipe.
    Thanks for sharing this recipe.

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  9. This looks awesome!!! I've been looking for a smoothie recipe for my son whobis allergic to dairy, bananas, nuts (including nut milk) and soy.

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