Frequently Asked Questions
How We Tested and What We Tested
We enactment each juicer done the paces, funneling a upland of vegetables and effect done each device, investigating particularly its quality to grip some pugnacious and fibrous veggies and softer nutrient specified arsenic greens and berries. We taste-test a classical greenish foodstuff (apples, carrots, celery, cucumber, leafy greens) and a carrot-apple-ginger. We besides comparison some the output and frothiness of the foodstuff among antithetic juicers, from the aforesaid look oregon the aforesaid fruit.
As of the astir caller circular of investigating (January 2025), we besides subjected each instrumentality to “torture tests” by intentionally not pursuing instructions: loading nutrient successful the incorrect order, failing to chop ginger oregon pineapple, and leaving citrus successful its peel, to spot which devices rotation fruitlessly oregon jam up sadly with fibre and pulp.
We trial each instrumentality with a decibel meter, noting erstwhile it's overmuch louder oregon quieter than the 65 decibels 1 mightiness scope during polite conversation. And we measure each instrumentality for easiness of cleaning.
Some cocktails were besides created, each successful the sanction of research.
What Are the Different Types of Juicers?
Most all-purpose juicers autumn into 1 of 2 types. Centrifugal juicers oregon masticating dilatory juicers that are besides known arsenic “cold press.”
A centrifugal juicer offers velocity and a batch of power. In essence, it operates a spot similar a blender with an added mesh surface to abstracted foodstuff from pulp. A fast-rotating leaf shreds effect and nutrient and grinds them up against a mesh screen, often astatine a velocity of thousands of revolutions per minute. Whatever passes done the mesh is the juice.
The powerfulness and velocity mean centrifugal juicers are often whizzes astatine processing roots, pineapples, and different harder oregon dense-fibered nutrient that mightiness airs trouble for a slow-press auger. Softer fruits specified arsenic berries oregon leafy greens won’t bash truthful good here, offering little foodstuff yields oregon adjacent clogging up the mesh screens. Centrifugal juicers besides thin to nutrient frothier juice, fixed the precocious agitation. That said, rotating rapidly besides makes them quick.
A masticating juicer—sometimes called a “slow” oregon “cold press” juicer—is some the newest inclination successful juicing and a overmuch older technology. Basically, dilatory juicers run connected the aforesaid rule arsenic an old-fashioned cider mill, dilatory “chewing” and pressing effect astatine a overmuch little rate, which immoderate judge subjects fruits and vegetables to little oxidation and vigor and frankincense preserves much of their indispensable character.
More verifiably, dilatory juicers thin to nett higher foodstuff yields and little discarded than centrifugal juicers and are much effectual successful peculiar connected leafy greens, brushed fruits, and berries. They besides adhd little froth and aeration to the resulting foodstuff and nutrient much evenly textured results.
Masticating juicers were erstwhile loaded into a horizontal grinder and chute, which took immoderate effort and required you to be to juicing during the full process. More recently, the advent of vertical masticating juicers from South Korea changed each that—with large hoppers 1 tin load up, shrug, and depart from arsenic the juicer does its work. The bulk of juicers we’ve included successful our guide, and each of our apical picks, are present slow, masticating juicers.
We've besides included a classical citrus juicer for elemental orange, lemon, and lime drinks. These are rather elemental devices and mostly the aforesaid arsenic each different speech from benignant and ergonomics. Basically, you property a halved citrus effect onto the ridged dome of a reamer and crook connected the device. The reamer volition twirl till the foodstuff is juiced.
Masticating and centrifugal juicers can, of course, foodstuff unpeeled citrus—and the added zest tin beryllium rather flavorful successful citrus and lime juice. (Actually, this is my preference.) But to debar specified zestiness, you'd different person to peel your citrus earlier loading into a juicing chamber. The easiest mode to foodstuff an orangish volition ever beryllium to halve it and property it against the ridged dome of a citrus juicer.
Are Juicers Good for Your Health?
Juicing is an casual mode to adhd much effect and vegetables to your diet, but it's not a magic fix. There country fewer casual ways to maximize the wellness benefits and minimize drawbacks similar humor sweetener spikes.
WIRED contributing reviewer Emily Peck talked to Kylie Jane, nutritionist and laminitis of UK wellness marque SANA Wellness (unrelated to Korean juicer marque Sana Products), for her proposal connected steadfast juicing. These are the 5 ways to guarantee that juicing is simply a healthful summation to your beingness and debar sweetener overload.
- Balance effect with vegetables: Fruits tin incorporate a batch of sugar, truthful to combat this, marque vegetables the basal of your juices. Aim for a ratio of 80 percent vegetables to 20 percent fruits. Try spinach, kale, cucumber, celery, ginger, and beetroot. When adding fruits, spell for those with a little glycemic scale similar greenish apples, berries, and pears.
- Incorporate fiber: Juicing removes astir of the fibre from fruits and vegetables, but it's important for slowing down the absorption of sugar, aiding digestive health, and keeping you feeling full. Consider blending immoderate of your foodstuff with full fruits oregon vegetables to support immoderate of the fibre intact. Alternatively, adhd a fibre supplement oregon incorporated immoderate pulp successful cooking oregon baking to guarantee you're getting enough.
- Add steadfast fats: To stabilize humor sweetener levels and summation satiety, incorporated sources of steadfast fats into your juicing routine, such arsenic avocado oregon coconut oil.
- Enhance with “superfoods”: Matcha and collagen are fashionable supplements that tin easy beryllium added to juices for an other wellness boost. A spoon of matcha is affluent successful antioxidants and provides a gentle vigor boost without the jitters of caffeine. Collagen whitethorn assistance with tegument elasticity and hydration, arsenic good arsenic healthy hair, nails, and joints.
- Choose the close clip to juice: Drinking foodstuff connected an bare tummy tin sometimes origin humor sweetener levels to spike much quickly. It’s often amended to portion foodstuff arsenic portion of a repast oregon aft you’ve eaten immoderate coagulated food, particularly foods precocious successful fiber, protein, oregon fats, to assistance dilatory down the absorption of sugar.
What Juicer Accessories Are Important?
Once you’ve decided what ingredients you privation to enactment successful your juicer—be it hard effect oregon leafy vegetables—it volition beryllium easier to take betwixt a masticating “slow” juicer oregon a faster centrifugal design. Either way, it’s important to look for a juicer that comes with the applicable accessories you need. For tasks different than juicing—such arsenic making seed milks and butters oregon crystal creams and sorbets—you’ll request a juicer with the applicable nutrient processing parts.
Also see however overmuch you’re consenting to prep your ingredients. While determination are regulations connected the size of the feeding chute you tin find owed to information reasons, immoderate juicers are equipped to instrumentality a full pome successful one, which means little chopping. To marque it adjacent simpler, the astir modern dilatory juicers, similar those from Nama and Hurom, person self-feeding hoppers.
Dishwasher-safe parts are applicable and prevention scrubbing time, but delight beryllium aware, adjacent the easiest-cleaning juicers volition instrumentality clip and attraction to clean. Pith, rind, pulp, and foodstuff are sticky and messy. That's conscionable however it is.
A Reverse fastener is different utile diagnostic to look for, particularly with dilatory juicers. This allows you to reverse the juicing process should you overeagerly stack your juicer and ingredients gets stuck.
Other Juicers We Liked

Photograph: Matthew Korfhage
Tribest Slowstar AI Vertical Hopper Juicer for $600: I'm inactive investigating the afloat capabilities of this brand-new instrumentality from Tribest—perhaps the astir absorbing caller juicer of the past mates years. While the remainder of the room went smart, astir juicers person remained resolutely analog. But this Tribest is simply a touchscreen instrumentality with preset rotation speeds for idiosyncratic vegetables and an AI-controlled relation that modulates rotation velocity depending connected the absorption of each nutrient item. This seems to work, making this happening an implicit beast for pitching done pugnacious citrus peels oregon ginger. So far, truthful good! But determination are compromises, including a smaller hopper size and a little continuous operating clip than my apical picks. And portion its screen-free hopper and feeder plan is casual to clean, it's inactive not arsenic elemental to cleanable and reassemble arsenic the Hurom H70, and determination are much parts to support way of. And truthful upon archetypal testing, it remains conscionable beneath the top-pick threshold, arsenic I proceed to suss retired the device's performance.

Photograph: Emily Peck

Photograph: Emily Peck
Omega Juicers VSJ843RR for $399: WIRED contributing reviewer Emily Peck tested and recommended this juicer successful erstwhile versions of this guide, praising its fantabulous foodstuff and precocious yield. But the instrumentality is little intuitive than the existent procreation of high-end juicers, leafy greens required a spot of fiddling to propulsion done the feeder tube, and the instrumentality struggled with fibrous vegetables specified arsenic pineapple and broccoli.

Photograph: Emily Peck
Sana 707 Cold Press Juicer for $200: This is simply a classical horizontal juicer, the benignant successful vogue for overmuch of the erstwhile century. It offers a batch of versatility, with attachments for thing from java to pasta. And it's economical, arsenic compared to hopper-style juicers. But arsenic with different skinny-mouth feeders, you'll find yourself hand-feeding carrots and celery and small pome wedges to marque a foodstuff batch.
Omega Time-Saving Batch Juicer for $226: WIRED had antecedently recommended this set-and-forget exemplary from Omega arsenic a fund dilatory juicer, contempt little show than apical picks that outgo doubly arsenic much. But we've enactment it backmost connected the investigating seat aft seeing immoderate user feedback astir durability, and for present we're much apt to urge fast-spinning centrifugal juicers arsenic a fund option.
Omega Juicers Wide Mouth Cold Press Juicer JC4000 for $135: On the 1 hand, this Omega wide-mouth is rather economical for a dilatory cold-press juicer. But it's besides a batch of fiddly enactment to assemble it properly, it leaves a just magnitude of pulp unextracted, and contempt its “wide-mouth” name, requires a spot of chopping to provender fruits that aren't carrots oregon celery done its vertical feeder—at slightest arsenic compared to newer-model hoppers. It'll get the occupation done, for not a batch of money. But you whitethorn not autumn successful emotion with it, and arsenic a fund cold-press prime I similar Omega's batch model.
Gone but not forgotten: The Sana 868 wide-mouth vertical juicer ($300) is inactive gettable connected Amazon, but it’s listed arsenic discontinued connected Sana's site. The 868's feeder-tube benignant is not successful vogue astatine the moment, but the inferior for this instrumentality comes from the debased outgo and the coarser screens that let this instrumentality to beryllium utilized for some juicers and smoothies. This said, if you mostly marque smoothies successful the morning, a blender is simply a full batch easier to clean.
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