Allergy Friendly Orange Julius
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This Allergy Friendly Orange Julius is creamy, frothy, and delicious, yet dairy and nut milk free!
It’s National Food Allergy Week and so I’ve teamed up with a few other bloggers to bring you some delicious allergy friendly recipes! (Scroll to the bottom of this post for more recipes and a Blendtec GIVEAWAY!) Did you know there are 8 foods that are responsible for 90% of food allergies? They are: milk, eggs, wheat, soy, peanuts, tree nuts, fish, and shell fish. Our family has been fortunate enough to not have to alter our diets because of a food allergy, but I know there are so many people out there who have to change what they eat due to an allergy, so I thought it would be fun to re-invent one of my favorite drinks to make it dairy and nut free.
Some of you may be thinking, Orange Julius doesn’t have nuts in it, so of course it’s nut free! Well, a lot of dairy-free people use nut milks, which wouldn’t work for those who have allergies to tree nuts, so this recipe can use rice milk OR coconut milk. Now, before you get after me for coconut milk being classified by the FDA as a tree nut, let me assure you that coconut is not a common allergen and is not related to tree nuts. If you have a tree nut allergy, consult your physician to find out if you need to avoid coconut.
Orange Julius is one of my favorite breakfast drinks! We also enjoy it in the summers like smoothie. Plus I get to use one of my favorite kitchen appliances, my Blendtec, to make it! There may just be a giveaway involving my favorite kitchen appliance in today’s post, so be sure to enter that after you grab the recipe for this Allergy Friendly Orange Julius! 😉
If you do have food allergies, what is one of your favorite classic recipes that you alter to make allergy friendly? I’d love to hear about it in the comments!
Allergy Friendly Orange Julius
Ingredients
- 1 cup pure orange juice
- 1/2 cup rice or coconut milk (Coconut milk is classified by the FDA as a tree nut, but is not a common allergen and is not actually related to tree nuts. If you have a tree nut allergy, consult your physician to find out if you need to avoid coconut.)
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 1/2 cups of ice
Instructions
- Place all ingredients into a blender.
- Blend on high speed until smooth and frothy.
- Enjoy immediately.
Recipe Notes
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To kick off National Food Allergy Awareness Week we are giving away the Blendtec Designer 625 Series with a Twister Jar! You can enter through the Rafflecopter below. Be sure to check out all the other yummy allergy friendly recipes too! And for more ways Blendtec can help make your food allergy meals easier and some awesome tips check out this post from Holly, Blendtec’s in house dietitian.
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50 Comments on “Allergy Friendly Orange Julius”
Luckily no food allergies here either. Just a few dislikes 😉
Luckily I don’t have any food allergies. But some times I just feel like being extra “healthy” and will alter recipes for that reason alone.
Ooh, I am SO down with these gorgeous drinks! Orange julius is my FAV this time of year! This looks so refreshing and I love that it’s allergy-friendly!
‘m so glad that I don’t have any food allergies, but I still neeeed to get a good Blender! I absolutely adore smoothies, and I’ve always wanted to get a BlendTec, for not just smoothies, but recipes and nut butters and so much others!
This sounds refreshing, luckily no one in our house has an allergies.
I would love to win this BlendTec . . . . I’m already thinking of the wonderful recipes I would make with it. My granddaughter was just diagnosed with nut tree allergies, so thanks for the info on coconut milk.
I follow a gluten-free, lacto-ovo vegetarian diet. The recipe that I am most excited to try in my new Blendtec is your Tropical Green Smoothie recipe.
Amber, these Orange Julius’ look SO good!! I can not wait to try this recipe!
Yes, I think I have a food allergy with a combination of Samo seeds and spinach. I would like to try many fruit smoothies and green smoothies in this blender other than the combination that I mentioned.
We would drink those soo much this summer!
We are gluten free and half of us are dairy free. This sounds great!
Feeling blessed to not have food allergies. I would make my own coconut milk with the blendtec and use it to make these orange Julius drinks, a favorite from my youth.
The Orange Julius since I used to get those from a hot dog place called Nedick’s when I was a kid!
I think I have a few food ‘allergies’, but they are not severe enough to have issues with them most of the time. BUT if I’m under a lot of stress, pollen levels are super high – those allergies tend to become an issue!
No food allergies that I know of but I do have some intolerances.
I follow a gluten free diet.
My brother is dairy-free and just getting into smoothies.
We would like to try this allergy friendly orange julius 🙂
I am gluten free and would love to try berry smoothies.
I avoid gluten and dairy. Can’t wait to try this!
No food allergies, thank goodness. I have a lot of frozen blueberries I need to use (last year was a huge crop); I would like to make a smoothie with them and coconut milk–maybe add strawberries?
So far, we don’t seem to have any allergies in our immediate family but my niece and sister-in-law are sensitive to gluten and I have been watching my gluten intake after having my daughter last year as well. Love this allergy-friendly Orange Julius! It looks and sounds so refreshing!:)
No allergies here, thankfully. But I like to be sensitive to that for friends who have allergies. We just like to eat healthy and yummy!
I don’t have allergies, but I’d love to have a blender powerful enough to handle anything I want to cook. Please send a Blendtec this way!
Sounds delicious and refreshing! I will add it to my summer and spring recipes. Thank you! Yum yum!
I have no food allergies, but I just made one, tweaking slightly, as I am watching calories. Used one whole navel orange in place of oj, added about 1/4 of orange’s skin, used 2 small packets of stevia in place of powdered sugar, and the rice milk and ice as in recipe. Wonderful!
That’s great! Thanks for sharing your substitutions!
Don’t know if I’m officially intolerant, but milk is not my friend. Still, the first recipe I would try would be my favorite milk shake recipe. It’s actually more ice cream than milk the way I make it … so yummy!