Chocolate peanut butter banana protein shake
3 min · 37 g protein · 396 cals / serving
The favourite: chocolate protein, a frozen banana and a real spoonful of peanut butter blended with cold milk until thick, creamy and salty-sweet, like a peanut butter cup turned into a milkshake.
Ingredients
- 1 cup skim milk, cold
- 1 scoop whey protein, chocolate
- 1 small banana, peeled, sliced and frozen
- 1 tbsp peanut butter
- 1 tsp cocoa powder, unsweetened
- 1 small pinch salt
- 3 ice cubes water
Steps
- Put the milk in the blender, then the protein powder, frozen banana, peanut butter, cocoa, salt and ice.
- Blend for 30–45 seconds, scraping down once if the peanut butter sticks, until completely smooth and thick. Pour into a tall glass and drink straight away.
Good to know
Thicker and colder?
The frozen banana does most of the work: slice ripe bananas, freeze them flat on a tray and keep them in a bag. Add two more ice cubes and blend a little longer for a shake you need a thick straw for.
More peanut flavour for fewer calories?
Powdered peanut butter has most of the roasted peanut taste with much less fat; 2 tablespoons replace the peanut butter, at about 75 instead of 67. The real spoonful gives the creamier, rounder version.
Shake or a meal?
It is rich, but it is still a drink and quick to finish, so some people find something they eat with a spoon or chew more satisfying. The peanut butter protein balls are a chewable take on the same flavours.
Alternatives
Per
- Calories
- 85
- Protein
- (38%)
- 8 g
- Fat
- (21%)
- 2 g
- Carbohydrates
- (41%)
- 9 g
- of which sugar
- 6 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 64 mg
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Computed from the ingredients with our published formula, not yet kitchen-tested. General guidance, not medical advice. Talk to your prescriber. How
Both directions are legitimate — the score measures fullness per calorie, not virtue. Every version is the same dish, rebalanced.
As written, 396 kcal goes into the pot and 469 g of ingredients comes out as about 468 g of food: 85 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.