Pomegranate Strawberry Juice with Kale

Need a pick me up full of antioxidants, vitamins, fiber and low on sugar? This pomegranate strawberry juice with kale is easy to throw together! Find more of my pomegranate recipes.

It’s May and that means it’s National Strawberry Month. I received a boat-load of strawberries after my farm tour to an Oxnard strawberry farm and the family has been having a blast enjoying these delicious strawberries.

We eat them straight up, with cereal, with ice cream… with ANYTHING. I decided I needed a pick-me-up to get my health and energy back in-line. And what else did I have my fridge? Pomegranate juice and kale. Hmmmmm….

Is strawberry juice a thing?

If you have ever taken a bite into a big strawberry, you’ve probably had strawberry juice dribble down your chin. So yes, strawberry juice is a thing. The main reason we don’t see bottles of pure strawberry juice in the grocery stores is that it takes a whole lot of strawberries to produce a glass of juice.

Now if you want to make strawberry juice at home, you can certainly do so. Simply put your strawberries in a blender until it is all puréed and smooth. Pour it through a fine mesh sieve to remove the pulp and seeds. And what you are left with is pure strawberry juice. You can additional sugar if you want, but if the sugars are sweet, no more sugar is needed.

Is this a drink or smoothie?

But for me, the thought of tossing out the wonderful pulp of the strawberry out was blasphemy. So for this strawberry drink, I simply put all three ingredients in the blender and YUMMO! So good! I get my kale in raw (it’s a bit rough for me to eat in a salad) and I get all the nutritional benefits of all three power ingredients.

I could end the post with this, but that would be dull. What really hung me was what to name this thing. Is this a smoothie without the milk? Is it a slushee? What kind of strawberry drink did I come up with? So, I did a little research and found these definitions:

ade: fruit drink: a sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice.

cooler: a tall drink, consisting of liquor, soda, and a fruit garnish.

slushy: a flavored frozen drink.

slurpee: a flavored frozen drink sold at 7-Eleven.

smoothie: a thick, smooth drink of fresh fruit puréed with milk, yogurt, or ice cream.

mocktail: non-alcoholic versions of alcoholic beverages.

juice: the liquid obtained from or present in fruit or vegetables.

spritzer: wine and soda water mixed.

punch: punch is the term for a wide assortment of drinks, both non-alcoholic and alcoholic, generally containing fruit or fruit juice

Ingredients you need

• Strawberries: You can use fresh or frozen strawberries for this drink.
• Kale: Why not throw something nutritious in your drink? You can skip this or substitute with spinach or chard.
• Pomegranate juice: Antioxidant rich pomegranate juice keeps all of this together.

Just throw it all in a blender and you’re good to go!

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