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A nice, cool, and refreshing smoothie is one of the best things. They make for an easy breakfast or a perfect post-workout snack. The only downside is they can be a bit messy and inconvenient to make from scratch. Smoothie delivery companies make it possible to enjoy your favorite healthy smoothies without all the hassle.
The Frozen Garden
BEST SMOOTHIE DELIVERY SERVICE
The Frozen Garden offers non-dairy, non-gluten, non-GMO, “non-bad stuff” smoothies in flavors that will appeal to both those who like their smoothies sweet, and those who like a more refreshing, brighter, and cleaner blend.
The Frozen Garden sources many of their ingredients from local farmers, helping to support their communities. If you’re not in the mood for a smoothie but want a refreshing drink, they also offer Fusions, which are concentrated cubes of fresh fruit and herbs that can be stirred into plain water.
If you tend to stay away from frozen smoothie delivery because you feel your less than sparkly blender isn’t up to the challenge, you’ll be happy to know that the Frozen Garden tests the blend-ability of their smoothies on blenders costing only $19.
Key Benefits
- The Frozen Garden offers 11 smoothies plus water infusions
- Minimum purchase of $35 required for shipping
- Delivered frozen, ready to blend
- Frozen components blend easily in most blenders
- The Frozen Garden uses mostly locally sourced fruits and herbs
Daily Harvest
MOST VARIETY
Daily Harvest is such a big fan of the nutritional power of foods that they believe good food can fix things. How many times have you wanted a snack but chose the option for convenience over nutrition? Daily Harvest aims to change this habit by offering hassle-free, nutrition-packed smoothies, snacks, and light meals.
While Daily Harvest offers more than smoothies, their selection is impressive. A couple of dozen smoothies with unique combinations like dragon fruit + lychee, and chickpea, cacao, and vanilla bean.
Key Benefits
- Ingredients arrive frozen, ready to blend
- About two-dozen, nutrient-packed smoothie options available
- At $8-$9 per smoothie, Daily Harvest is at the upper end of the price range for pre-made smoothie delivery
- Offers more than just smoothies for people who are looking to expand their nutritional options
- Daily Harvest uses mostly organic ingredients
Splendid Spoon
BEST GRAND & GO SMOOTHIE DELIVERY
Splendid Spoon offers completely vegan, non-GMO, ready to eat smoothies and light meals that you can easily take on the go. Splendid Spoon is ideal if you’re looking for a low-sugar smoothie option that doesn’t require any thawing, blending, or complicated preparation.
Splendid Spoon offers a rotation of about 15 smoothies, all mixed and bottled for you to grab and go. A nice feature about Splendid Spoon is that when you click on a smoothie for more details, you’re given information about how each ingredient supports health. For instance, Swiss chard fights fatigue while hibiscus is packed with heart-healthy antioxidants.
There are no a la carte options and no plan for just smoothies. So, you’re locked into a plan where you’ll also receive bowls in addition to smoothies.
Key Benefits
- Smoothies arrive fresh, premade, and packaged to easily grab and go
- Splendid Spoon currently offers 15 smoothie options
- Smoothies are vegan, and allergen information is listed for each one
- Plans only, and no plan available for smoothies alone
- Free shipping but the cost per smoothie is on the higher end of the spectrum
SmoothieBox
SmoothieBox is a simple, straightforward smoothie delivery service. This can be both a good and a bad thing. If you like the idea of good tasting, nutritious smoothies that come frozen and ready to blend, SmoothieBox is a good option. The downside is in their selection. At this time, there are only 4 smoothie varieties on their menu.
The smoothie flavors offered are classic, popular blends (Berry, Green, Cacao, and Clementine). Almost all ingredients, except for the clementines, are organic. SmoothieBox also requires a significant minimum order, which can be a turn off for some.
Key Benefits
- Only 4 varieties of smoothies available
- Minimum order of 20 required
- Cost savings when choosing to subscribe vs placing a one time order
- Delivered frozen, ready to blend
Revive Superfoods
Next up is Revive Superfoods. This smoothie delivery company offers acai bowls and oats in addition to their selection of smoothies. Their selection is good, with 15 smoothie blends to choose from. Their flavor profiles are unique too, with options like Pumpkin Chili and Matcha Maker.
From a price standpoint, Revive Superfoods is also one of the more affordable smoothie kit delivery companies. The issue that when looking over customer reviews, many of them don’t have great things to say. The problem seems to be with their customer service, with some customers going as far as calling this company deceptive.
Key Benefits
- Good variety with 15 unique smoothie flavor combinations
- Delivered frozen, ready to blend and enjoy
- Organic ingredients used as much as possible
- Shipping is free
- Terrible customer reviews for customer service
Buying Guide
Pre-blended or Ready to Blend
One of the first things you’ll want to consider is if you prefer a smoothie kit delivery, where you blending is required, or if you want something that you can just grab and go. There are a few factors here that should weigh into your decision.
The first is freshness. With frozen smoothie options, the fruit, vegetables, and other ingredients are frozen when they are at their freshest, which preserves the taste and nutritional value. All you need to do is add a liquid, which can be water, plant or animal milk, or another preference, and blend.
Pre-blended doesn’t always offer the assurance of freshness, That said, companies like Splendid Spoon that ship pre-blended don’t get knocked in customer reviews for a lack of freshness. You’ll also want to consider shelf life. Smoothie kits that can be stored in the freezer are going to last longer.
Another thing to consider is your kitchen equipment. No matter what the claims, most standard kitchen blenders can’t produce smoothly blended smoothies (at least consistently). Between large chunks of ingredients and ice, if added, smoothies can take a toll on your blender.
If you’re a fan of ready to blend smoothies, it’s suggested you invest in a blender that can handle the job regularly. The Vitamix and Blendtec blenders cost a bit more but they’ll also produce a well-blended smoothie every time, without killing your blender motor.
Fresh Vs Frozen
All the ready to blend smoothie delivery companies mentioned here ship their products frozen. The choice between fresh and frozen is still worth mentioning because you might come up against other options in your searches.
Some of these companies also offer light meals, which could be fresh or frozen. With smoothies, frozen is almost always hands-down best, unless you find a smoothie company that ships individual components that you cut or prepare. Fruit generally has a relatively short life once it has been cut.
Ingredient Quality
Of course, ingredient quality is key to how much you’ll enjoy your smoothies. A smoothie that’s made with less than quality ingredients is going to taste flat, boring, and not be aligned with your health or ethical goals.
Most smoothie companies use organic ingredients when they are available, and others like The Frozen Garden choose to support local farmers as much as possible with their products.
Unique Flavors and Blends
If you have a blender at home, it’s pretty easy to cut up some produce, throw it in a blender and call it a smoothie. Still, for whatever reason, it never tastes as good as the one you might get from a smoothie shop. The reason is that a restaurant-quality smoothie, like the ones offered by these companies, often contain bits of ingredients you probably don’t have hanging around home.
Dragonfruit, decadent cacao, and exotic fruits are just a few of the ingredients that come to mind. Companies like SmoothieBox do a great job with a limited selection of classic flavors, but if your tastes lead to the more exotic you might want to choose a smoothie delivery service that offers a variety of unique blends.
Price
Finally, you want to consider the price. Prices for smoothie delivery kits range from about $5-$10 per portion, with most companies requiring some type of minimum purchase. If you’re having just a smoothie for breakfast, $10 might not seem like such a bad deal, even if you’re on a budget.
If you’re enjoying several smoothies a day, or drink them as snacks, the higher price points can be a punch to the budget.
When looking at the price, it’s also important to consider if shipping is included. For example, Root Blends isn’t over the top on their prices but if you order less than 12 smoothies, the nearly $20 shipping cost adds $3.33 to the cost of each smoothie in their 6 pack.
Bottom Line
Smoothies are a great, easy way to add a nutritional punch to your diet, plus they taste great. Smoothie delivery companies like The Frozen Garden, Daily Harvest, and Splendid Spoon are great places to start. You might have to experiment a little to find the best option, but testing smoothies is far from the worst chore in the world.