All Natural Piña Coladas, Paleo

All Natural Piña Coladas recipe. An all natural, clean version of the pina colada cocktail made with clean simple ingredients.

We moved to Florida recently ( which is where we grew up) and being here has made us crave some of our Florida favorites: grilled mahi-mahi, key lime pie, and piña coladas.

We have found it to be impossible to find all natural, non-processed piña coladas! So we took matters into our own hands and made this incredibly rich, creamy and satisfying All Natural Piña Coladas recipe. It makes our favorite piña coladas that we've ever had, and it only takes 5 minutes to put together!

Oh and all the ingredients in this recipe are Paleo and Clean– except for the rum, which is optional! (kind of) 🙂 Lighter from-scratch clean pina colada cocktails at their finest.

Prior to making these All Natural Piña Coladas, our husband and we ordered some at a bar. And all we can say is EWW. It tasted like chemicals! It almost tasted like suntan lotion? But with a hint of gasoline.

There was NO WAY this could be good for you. And not only did it taste bad, but our husband turned bright red, which is our sign that something processed is in the food.

( sidenote: our husband has an auto-immune disease and so we find that him turning red is our barometer for what foods to stay away from)

Needless to say, we knew it was time to start making them at home.

Ingredients needed to make these All Natural Piña Coladas:

• coconut cream
• frozen pineapple
• pineapple juice
• rum ( optional )
• maple syrup
• ice

How simple are these ingredients?

If you look at a popular pina colada mix that you can buy in stores, however, the ingredients are terrible.

For example, here is the ingredients of one that we were looking at: Water, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Citric Acid, Xanthan Gum, Sodium Benzoate (Preservative), Titanium Dioxide (for Color), Potassium Sorbate (Preservative), Sodium Citrate, Pectin, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Yellow 5, Red 40

The ingredients in a can of Coco Lopez are: COCONUT MILK, SUGAR, WATER, POLYSORBATE 60, SORBITAN MONOSTEARATE, SALT, PROPYLENE GLYCOL ALGINATE, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES (EMULSIFIERS), CITRIC ACID, GUAR GUM, and LOCUST BEAN GUM.

UM no thank you.

No wonder our husband’s face turns red when he drinks them from a pre-made mix.

Tips on making this lighter piña colada recipe:

1. Make sure the pineapple juice is made of 100% juice and that the ingredient list is only “organic pineapple juice”. We found a great juice from a company called Lakewood Organic at our local grocery store.
2. Make sure to use canned coconut cream without any preservatives. Even if the can says “all natural” or “organic”, it’s not enough. At least for the flavor. The absolute best tasting coconut cream is Savoy and there is only coconut and water inside of it.
   • For a recipe that is so reliant on coconut cream for it’s flavor, we think it’s really key to have a satisfying tasting one. Savoy is our favorite. ( sorry for repeating this so often! but it makes a big difference in taste and texture )
3. Put the canned coconut cream in the freezer in advance. It makes a difference!
4. Using frozen pineapple is clutch. It makes the drink more slushy-like.
5. Add as much or as little ice as you want. We personally like a lot.

Honestly, these All Natural Piña Coladas are SO simple– everything is done in less than 5 minutes– but so satisfying!

We know this may be a big statement, and we mentioned it earlier, but these piña coladas are the most satisfying ones that we've ever had. And we've had a few other people say the same thing!

We've found that the more natural a recipe, the more satisfying, and this certainly is the case here!

All the ingredients in this recipe are Paleo and clean except for the rum. And that ingredient is optional. But when everything else in the recipe is natural, it makes adding a bit of rum not so bad.

Feel free to make yours virgin to keep them totally Paleo or add the rum of your choice.

We like the added kick of the rum, but we love virgin Piña Coladas just as much.