Does Costco publish nutrition facts for its strawberry banana smoothie?

No. Costco does not post food court nutrition on its website, and the frozen smoothie fruit sold in warehouses is not listed in the online catalog with a panel you can check. Any exact figure you find attached to the Costco name online came from a third-party database or a photograph of in-store packaging.

Is the Costco food court smoothie the same as the frozen packs?

No, and treating them as one thing is where most of the confusion starts. The food court drink is a prepared base blended to order behind the counter. The frozen packs in the aisle are bags of fruit you take home and blend yourself. They share a flavor name and very little else.

What liquid should I use with a Costco strawberry banana pack?

Water if you want the fruit to be the whole drink. Unsweetened almond milk if you want a little body for almost nothing. Whole milk or juice if you want it richer or sweeter and have decided that is worth it. The fruit does not change; only the pour does.

Is a strawberry banana smoothie high in sugar?

The sugar in a fruit-only build comes from the fruit, and banana brings more of it than strawberry does. That is a floor you cannot get under without changing the drink. What you can control is everything added on top: juice, honey, sorbet, sweetened yogurt. Those are choices, not requirements.

How do I add protein to a strawberry banana smoothie?

Plain Greek yogurt, cottage cheese or a scoop of whey or pea protein all sit well with this flavor. Yogurt and cottage cheese have the advantage of also giving you the thickness people usually chase with whole milk or ice cream, so they do two jobs at once.

Can I make a Costco-style strawberry banana smoothie lighter without it tasting thin?

Yes. Frozen cauliflower is the usual trick. It blends invisibly into strawberry and banana and gives you volume and thickness without flavor. Greek yogurt over unsweetened almond milk does the same for creaminess. Keep the banana, though. It is what makes the drink taste like the drink.

Does the Costco strawberry banana smoothie have dairy?

The frozen pack has no dairy in it at all — it is only strawberries and banana, so whether the finished drink contains dairy is entirely down to what you blend it with. Pour water, juice or a plant milk and it stays dairy-free; add whole milk, Greek yogurt or ice cream and it no longer is. The food court version is a prepared base, so if dairy matters to you, ask what goes into it before assuming.

How many carbs are in the Costco strawberry banana smoothie?

Most of the carbs come from the fruit itself, with banana carrying more than strawberry, and then from anything sweet you add on top such as juice, honey or sorbet. A build on water or unsweetened plant milk keeps the carbs close to the fruit floor, while a juice base or added sweetener pushes them up. To see the figure for your own pour, use the smoothie calorie calculator, which totals the sugar and carbs from your exact ingredients.

How healthy is the Costco strawberry banana smoothie?

It is as healthy as what you pour over the fruit, since the fruit itself is whole strawberries and banana with fiber intact. On water or unsweetened plant milk it is genuinely light; the moment juice, honey or sorbet goes in it becomes a sweeter, heavier drink. The single biggest health lever is the liquid and any added sweetener, not the fruit.

Is there a copycat recipe for the Costco strawberry banana smoothie?

Yes — start with frozen strawberries and frozen banana, then choose your liquid, since that pairing is the whole flavor. The rebuilds here run from a plain fruit-and-water version up to a creamy milk-and-honey one, so you can match the richness you want and keep the ratio under your own control.

Costco copycat

Costco Strawberry Banana Smoothie Nutrition

Costco publishes nothing for it. Here is what the drink is actually made of, and how to rebuild it at home.

Short answer

Costco strawberry banana smoothie nutrition comes down to the fruit and whatever you pour over it: the pack is strawberries and banana, frozen, with no liquid, dairy or sweetener in the bag. Costco publishes no nutrition figures for the smoothie, so there is no official number to quote. Made at home the drink runs 180 to 393 calories, and the gap is almost entirely what you pour over the fruit.

Independent analysis. Smoothie Calculator is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Costco.

The thing most people are asking about is a bag of frozen fruit, and a strawberry banana pack is exactly that: strawberries and banana, no liquid, no dairy, no sweetener. So the bag’s own panel tells you very little. Whatever you pour over it — water, orange juice, whole milk, oat milk — is the single biggest lever on where the drink ends up, and the fruit stays identical either way.

Costco publishes nothing for the food court cup or the frozen packs, so any precise calorie count you find attached to its name came from a user-submitted database or a photo of an in-warehouse label. Your own pour, though, is answerable: same fruit five ways, changing only the liquid and the base. Our smoothie calorie calculator takes your proportions if they differ.

Strawberry banana, rebuilt five ways at home

At-home version

Calories

Protein

Carbs

Sugar

Fat

The pack and water 1 cup water · 1 cup frozen strawberry · 1 cup frozen banana (sliced) — The floor: fruit, ice-cold water, nothing else in the jug.

180 kcal

3 g

45 g

25 g

1 g

Almond milk and Greek yogurt 1 cup almond milk · 1 cup frozen strawberry · ½ cup frozen banana (sliced) · ½ cup greek yogurt — Thin liquid, thick base, and the yogurt does the creaminess.

221 kcal

16 g

34 g

20 g

4 g

Orange juice, poured the way most people pour it 1 cup orange juice · 1 cup frozen strawberry · 1 cup frozen banana (sliced) — The same fruit as the water version, one ingredient changed.

292 kcal

4 g

71 g

46 g

1 g

Whole milk and honey 1 cup whole milk · 1 cup frozen strawberry · ½ cup frozen banana (sliced) · 1 tbsp honey — The creamy sweetened version people mean when they say milkshake.

323 kcal

10 g

57 g

46 g

9 g

Oat milk, peanut butter and oats 1 cup oat milk · 1 cup frozen strawberry · ½ cup frozen banana (sliced) · 1 tbsp peanut butter · ¼ cup rolled oats — Built as a breakfast rather than a drink.

393 kcal

12 g

61 g

27 g

14 g

One serving each, all starting from frozen strawberries and frozen banana. The water version and the orange juice version use identical fruit, so the only thing separating them is the pour.

What actually sets the number

The pack is fruit; the liquid is a separate decision

A frozen strawberry banana pack is exactly what it says: fruit, frozen, in a bag. It contains no liquid, no dairy, no sweetener. That means the bag's own panel tells you almost nothing about the drink you end up holding. The number you care about is set after you open it.

Banana is the heavier half of the pair

Strawberries are mostly water. Banana is not. It is the dense, starchy-sweet part of the blend and it carries most of what the fruit contributes. Packs that lean banana-forward for texture land higher than packs that lean strawberry, even when the bag weight is identical.

Juice bases are the cheapest way to add a lot

Blended drinks sold ready-made usually start from a juice or fruit puree base rather than water, because it is sweeter, cheaper and pours consistently. Do the same at home, orange juice over the fruit instead of water, and the total moves before a single spoonful of anything else goes in.

Cup size, not recipe, is what makes a counter-bought drink big

Food court cups are sized for a warehouse, not a snack. A blend that is unremarkable per cup becomes a lot of drink once it is poured into something you carry with two hands. When you compare a homemade glass to a counter-bought cup, check the serving before you compare anything else.

Added sweetener does exactly one job

Honey, agave, turbinado and fruit-juice concentrate all do the same thing to the total: they add sugar and nothing else. On an already-sweet strawberry banana base they are the easiest line to remove, and the one most likely to be there in a version somebody else made for you.

How to make it lighter without losing the drink

Pour the liquid, do not glug it

Measure the liquid the first few times. A cup of juice looks like nothing going into a full blender jug, and it is the easiest thing in the whole recipe to overpour without noticing you have done it.

Buy the fruit, not the smoothie

Bulk frozen strawberries and a bag of frozen banana slices give you the same drink as a pre-mixed pack, with the ratio under your control. Freeze ripe bananas yourself in portions and you get consistency without paying for the packaging.

Swap the sweetness source, not the sweetness

If the drink tastes flat on water, reach for a riper banana or more strawberry before you reach for honey. Fruit sugar arrives with fiber attached. A spoon of syrup arrives on its own.

Use Greek yogurt for the body you think milk gives you

Whole milk makes a smoothie creamy by adding fat. Plain Greek yogurt over unsweetened almond milk does the same job on texture and brings protein along with it. Same taste, more protein.

Count your own strawberry banana smoothie

Change the liquid, the banana or the base and watch the total move.

Open the smoothie calorie calculator

Estimates, not advice. Every figure on this page is calculated from published per-100 g reference values and standard household measures, so your own brands, portions and equipment will move it. Nothing here is medical, nutritional or dietetic advice — talk to a qualified professional before acting on it, particularly if you are pregnant, managing a health condition, or feeding a child.