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Since 2016, we've researched over 30 of the best juicers on the market to test side-by-side. Our kitchen experts examined 13 of today's top models for this update. We made juices from various fruits and vegetables to judge overall juice quality and assessed each model's ability to juice soft produce like apples and oranges, hard produce like beets and carrots, and even difficult leafy greens. We also rated and scored user-friendliness and ease of cleaning. Our comprehensive review combines in-depth research and objective testing with real-world experience to help you find the best juicer for your kitchen.
No matter what kind of tools you need for your health or cooking goals, we've seen and tested the best of the best appliances for your kitchen and home. From the best citrus juicers and the best blenders to the top hand blenders and the best portable blenders, we have all the details you need on the products you'll want for juicing and smoothies.
Editor's Note: We updated our juicer review on February 27, 2023, with suggestions on which juicers are good alternatives to our award winners.
Dishwasher Safe: Yes, most parts | Type: Masticating
REASONS TO BUY
Easily juices greens
Fantastic blended juice quality
Super easy to clean
REASONS TO AVOID
Lower hard produce juice yield
Expensive
Our favorite masticating juicer is, hands-down, the Omega Nutrition Center. This appliance is second-to-none for juicing leafy greens — even problematic produce that is typically more difficult to juice, such as spinach and wheatgrass. It also excels at juicing soft produce like apples and oranges, outputting well above average juice yields. It can make high-quality blended juice beverages with a velvety-smooth texture and phenomenal taste. The icing on the cake is that the Nutrition Center is supremely easy to clean, saving both time and energy on the back end.
When it comes to juicing hard produce, the Nutrition Center is not an all-star. Many slow juicers struggle with this, but this masticating model struggled more than other contenders we reviewed. On average, this model tends to produce significantly less juice, especially with root vegetables like sweet potatoes and beets. Furthermore, it is one of the most expensive contenders in our lineup, and the price may be too steep for many consumers. Still, the cost compliments the performance, and this is a quality product built to last, juice after juice. However, if you're seeking a more affordable model that excels with hard produce, check out the Hamilton Beach Big Mouth Premium.
The Breville Juice Fountain Plus has an extra wide feeding chute, a powerful motor, and an efficient shredder and strainer. These attributes work together to help shed the prep time, eliminating the need to finely chop your fruit and veggies before juicing. Not only is the Fountain Plus easy to use, but with most parts being dishwasher safe, it's easy to clean, too. This versatile centrifugal juicer has no issue with hard produce like carrots, beets, and sweet potatoes. It also makes some of the tastiest apple juice we've had the pleasure of drinking and above-average cucumber juice, which is no small feat. On top of all that, the Fountain Plus offers two juicing speeds for a versatile experience.
The Fountain Plus produces some incredible juices, but not all are created equal. Sadly, the celery and orange juice were below average. The orange juice has a nice consistency, but the taste of the pith shines through, making it quite bitter. Furthermore, this model is not meant for leafy greens. One of our favorites for leafy greens is the Kuvings Whole Slow C7000S, but it will cost you. Generally, masticating juicers work much better for greens than centrifugal models, which spin them around and mush them into a slimy mess. The Fountain Plus also tends to leak if the top is not sufficiently sealed and lacks a spout cap, so while the appliance itself is easy to clean, it occasionally creates a mess. If you are in the market for a top-tier centrifugal juicer that won't break the bank, the Fountain Plus won't disappoint.
Dishwasher Safe: Yes, most parts | Type: Centrifugal
REASONS TO BUY
Good juice quality
Easy to clean
Inexpensive
REASONS TO AVOID
Lower juice yields
Quick separation
Do you have sticker shock from the price tags attached to some of the top models in this review? The Hamilton Beach Big Mouth retails for a fraction of the price of many other products yet can still produce above-average juices. Across our entire series of tests, this price point model delivered impressive results. It yields an average amount of juice from both soft and hard produce and is even capable of effectively juicing leafy greens — an uncommon feat for most centrifugal models. Best of all, this juicer makes reasonably tasty juice cocktails and is quite easy to clean.
Though it may not sport the sleek stainless steel build you get with other top models, the Big Mouth is a durable juicer likely to stand up to the rigors of everyday use. As a centrifugal juicer, some pulp will wind up entering your drink, so juices tend to separate quickly. As such, we recommend enjoying the juice fresh rather than storing it for later. Given the price point, this juicer produces high-quality juice despite not offering the best yield. If you're searching for a juicer on a tight budget, the Big Mouth is the ideal choice — but for those who can spend a little more, the Premium version is well worth the small additional expense.
The Kuvings Whole Slow C7000S is an amazing masticating juicer that excels in rendering liquids from notoriously difficult ingredients such as kale, wheatgrass, and spinach. Leafy greens require low RPMs and a high-quality masticator to render a large volume of quality juice, and the Kuvings hits the nail on the head in this regard. This juicer is fairly easy to clean and set up — two statements that can't be said for much of the competition.
Unfortunately, the Kuvings struggled more with some firmer produce — specifically beets. Our only other concerns are that it includes many parts, making setup somewhat frustrating, and it's one of the most expensive contenders we reviewed. And yet, if you desire high-quality juice, we feel the Kuvings is worth the investment. We also like the Breville Juice Fountain Elite for a slightly less expensive model that produces great juice and is easy to clean. It's also better at tackling hard produce than the Kuvings.
The Kuvings Whole Slow Elite is a leader in the class and it shows in each and every glass of delicious juice.
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While generally effective, masticating juicers may require extra effort when processing harder fruits and vegetables. This includes the Omega Nutrition Center.
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Why Trust GearLab
Before getting down to the job of juicing, our team performs its due diligence of market research, spending dozens of combined hours investigating new technologies and comparing and contrasting the most popular products available. To ensure full objectivity, we purchase all products we test at retail cost. Our team of experts then design numerically-based tests, so we can rank these products relative to one another. We conduct close to 60 different tests and assessments to evaluate the performance of every model and update the review whenever a promising new product is released. These components make up the overall score and are weighted based on how they influence the juicing experience.
Whether you're juicing leafy greens, or grapefruits, our test suite is sure to have something for you.
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Many of these tests require us to use these juicers in our kitchens, providing real-world experience that helps us relate on a personal level. An extended testing period allows us significant time to get acquainted with each product — our reviewers make dozens of drinks with every model, processing lots of produce to better understand the pros and cons of each product. The highest weighted metric is juice quality (25% of the total), broken down into 16 individual tests for three different juice product blends. Our juicing test products include more than 13 different commonly juiced fruits and vegetables across metrics!
We rated these products across five different metrics:
Overall Juice Quality tests (25% of total weighted score)
Soft Produce Juicing tests (20% weighting)
Hard Produce Juicing tests (20% weighting)
Leafy Greens Juicing tests (20% weighting)
Cleaning tests (15% weighting)
Research Analyst Austin Palmer and Senior Review Editor David Wise have reviewed and tested hundreds of different top-ranked kitchen appliances and tech products between the two of them, and collectively spent more than 150 hours researching, testing, and reviewing these products. Another one of our kitchen experts, Genaveve Bradshaw, lends her culinary knowledge, as well as her research and review skills, to round out our team. Hayley Thomas makes up the last third of our juicer team. She is passionate about her health and takes attention to detail to the next level.
The Hurom Slow Juicer is a stylish, vertical slow juicer, but unfortunately doesn't offer performance befitting of its price tag.
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Analysis and Test Results
We created robust metrics to compare these products objectively. While all the metrics are related, they are designed to be mutually exclusive better to examine each product's particular strengths and weaknesses, so you can make an informed buying decision for your needs and budget.
Full-Size or Citrus-Only?
If you are mainly interested in juicing limes, lemons, grapefruits, or oranges, you may want to consider a top-rated citrus juicer rather than a full-size masticating or centrifugal model. Although a citrus-only model will have fewer features than a full-size kitchen appliance, these little appliances cost significantly less and will occupy a fraction of your precious countertop space.
Our test panel sipping and taking notes on our sunset blend juice (beetroots, carrots, apples, sweet potatoes, and oranges) made from various brands of juicers.
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What's the Best Value?
Juicers are a specialty item, and compared to other kitchen appliances, we find that the top-performing products in this category generally tend to run on the pricey side. Many of the top models available to most home consumers can cost hundreds of dollars — and that's not even considering professional-grade options.
However, if you are shopping for a better deal, then the Hamilton Beach Big Mouth is the best value option, as is the Mueller Ultra-Juicer. Even though these models struggle with some of the more difficult juicing tasks, they cost a fraction of premium models, making them a great middle-of-the-road option if you are trying to balance performance and price. The Breville Fountain Plus costs a little more, but its overall performance is almost unmatched. If you have a little extra cash to spend but still don't want to break the bank, the Fountain Plus is a fantastic option.
The Mueller Ultra-Juicer is a great option if you are shopping on a budget for a middle-of-the-road product.
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Juice Quality
Many of us look to making juice at home because we recognize that the economics of buying fresh bottled juices is simply not sustainable. While these products may not afford the same professional-grade results, at-home models will still produce a high-quality glass of juice. We use three different juice cocktails to rank and score the differences in the performance of each product. These three recipes combine various fruits and vegetables — up to six different types of produce in one juice blend — and thus offer a broad spectrum of juices to better gauge aspects of overall juice quality.
We use a panel of testers to taste and score each drink and ask them to comment on things like taste, texture, thickness, temperature, and any other characteristics that they feel contribute to or detract from overall juice quality.
The Fountain Plus and Cuisinart Juice Extractor both shine brightly in this metric. They deliver excellent results across the board, earning them top marks in this metric. Juice blends from these models have a smooth texture with little foam and a consistency that allows individual flavors to shine through.
The Fountain Plus provides a consistently smooth texture throughout, with most fruits and vegetables.
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The Omega Nutrition Center is particularly versatile because of its ability to effectively juice different types of produce. Our judges all agreed that this appliance makes excellent juice cocktails that are smooth and incredibly rich in flavor, with little to no pulp. The blends from this model are denser, topped with small amounts of foam, are properly saturated, and don't easily separate — all characteristics of an ideal juice.
For green juice, we used the “RAO” recipe, which combines romaine lettuce, apples and oranges. Green juices tend to separate quickly, so this is a good test for blended quality.
Credit: Austin Palmer
Soft Produce Juicing
Although everything ultimately comes down to overall juice quality, each type of produce you include in your juice blends can affect the outcome of the finished product. We consider soft produce to be anything with a high water content — for our tests, we used a variety of fruits and vegetables, including apples, oranges, cucumbers, and celery. Our main concern with the individual types of produce was juice yield; how much produce do you need to process to get a reasonable amount of juice. But we also examined the amount of pulp, the rate of separation, the appropriateness of color, and the amount of foam. All of these factors relate directly back to juice quality.
The Hurom Slow Juicer, Kuvings Whole Slow Elite C7000S, Breville Juice Fountain Elite, and NutriBullet all deliver excellent soft produce yields. They especially excel in apple, celery, and orange juice yields.
The Omega Nutrition Center is also among the best models for juicing oranges — it produces high yields of juice with perfectly minimal pulp and no foam. However, this model does poorly in the hard produce realm, so it likely isn't worth the expense for a citrus-specific juicer. The Breville 800JEXL Juice Fountain Elite is a top contender for cucumber juice.
We sliced hundreds of oranges in our soft produce tests.
Credit: Genaveve Bradshaw
Hard Produce Juicing
Hard produce like carrots, beets, and sweet potatoes can be a true test of power and durability. Even broken up, these harder types of produce can batter a juicing chamber from the inside, putting the quality of components to the test. Only models with strong motors can provide the power necessary to efficiently and effectively juice this type of produce. These more fibrous vegetables can stress the limits of filters and pulp containers. Again, we grade each appliance on the overall juice yield and the key aspects of juice quality. Some of these products struggled in these assessments, resulting in a much larger spread of scores.
The Breville Juice Fountain Elite had a great performance in this metric. Though lower juice yields overall — consider that this “elite” model costs quite a bit.
The Juice Fountain Elite produced some of this highest quality beet juice, with the least amount of foam or pulp.
Credit: Austin Palmer
Competitive with the Breville products is the more price-point-friendly centrifugal Hamilton Beach Big Mouth Premium. This juicer has an 850-watt motor and is worth the extra expense over the standard model if you plan to juice hard produce regularly. This model excels at processing carrots but does well with beets and sweet potatoes as well.
Fast-working centrifugal models are particularly good at juicing hard produce, like carrots.
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The biggest downside to these inexpensive centrifugal models is that they are often overwhelmed by the pulp of fibrous veggies, resulting in thicker juices with mild to moderate amounts of pulp. Despite the question of pulp, we recommend a centrifugal rather than a masticating model if you plan on making beet and carrot juice.
The powerful 850W motor on the Hamilton Beach Big Mouth Premium processes hard produce, like beets, with ease.
Credit: Laura Casner
The Breville Juice Fountain Plus is another stellar centrifugal hard-produce juicer. With its wide chute, you won't have to cut your sweet potatoes more than once before juicing.
The Fountain Plus passes our hard produce test with flying colors.
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Leafy Greens Juicing
Next, we looked at what may be considered the most difficult task: juicing leafy greens. Many models are simply incapable of extracting juice from this type of produce. As a result, this metric also includes a wide range of scores, with some appliances handling herbage with ease while others severely struggle. Just like the tests for juicing hard and soft produce, we conducted a trio of tests with each product — using spinach, kale, and wheatgrass to gauge performance — scoring their yields as well as juice quality.
The Kuvings Whole Slow Elite is one of the top performers in our leafy greens metric. This masticating model produces an impressive yield from spinach and kale. It is also one of the few capable of juicing wheatgrass.
Leafy greens can be very difficult to juice, and masticating juicers tend to do a much better job.
Credit: Abriah Wofford
Another wheatgrass pulverizer is the Omega J8006 Nutrition Center. Unfortunately, it falls off in the kale test. The dark horse Hurom Slow Juicer makes a strong showing, successfully juicing all three types of greens, albeit with significantly more foam.
The Kuvings is one of the best leafy greens juicer that we have tested to date.
Credit: Abriah Wofford
While juicing leafy greens is certainly a specialty of masticating models, not all are effective — or efficient — at doing so. This is the one standout metric for the otherwise overpriced Tribest Slowstar Vertical. Although it cannot juice wheatgrass, it does produce high yields from other leafy veggies, albeit with a fair amount of foam.
Centrifugal models tend to struggle in this department — often gnashing greens into a pulpy, frothy mess instead of squeezing out the juice. Given the reputation of centrifugal devices, we were impressed with the average yields from the affordable Hamilton Beach Big Mouth. While it did not do great with kale and spinach, it competes with mastication models where wheatgrass is concerned.
The Hamilton Beach juicer performed well when juicing wheatgrass, nearly achieving the same results as the Omega.
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Cleaning
As we have expressed before, everything that gets cooked — or in this case, juiced — must eventually be cleaned. Particularly when it comes to these machines, the process of disassembly, cleaning, and reassembly can be time-consuming and, in some cases, quite annoying. We made a lot of juice over our testing period and therefore spent a lot of time cleaning these machines. Our experience helps us evaluate the effort it takes to clean the individual components and the effectiveness of the cleaning tool (if one is even included.) As you may imagine, we award bonus points to those dishwasher-safe products.
The Omega J8006HDS Nutrition Center and NutriBullet 800W Juicer have components that are dishwasher friendly. The Omega, in particular, is also easy to hand wash. Both the NutriBullet and the Omega include effective cleaning brushes, and they break down in a way that is intuitive enough to make putting it all back together easy.
While the Omega Nutrition Center isn't dishwasher safe, its effortless manual cleaning experience might make you skip the dishwasher altogether.
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Most of these products, except the NutriBullet and Omega have filters that are easy to clean as long as you get to them right away and don't allow the pulp to dry in place.
Sever other juicers come in behind the NutriBullet and Omega for their cleaning ease. Namely, these are the Breville models as well as the Hamilton Beach Big Mouth Premium. All of these models are dishwasher safe and come with reliable cleaning tools to access their various components. However, it is the simplicity of the NutriBullet that makes it by far the most straightforward model to clean.
The Hamilton Beach Big Mouth Premium's dishwasher-safe parts are also designed with rounded corners for easy hand washing. This means you can choose the cleaning method that best suits your needs and preferences.
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This model combines the juice centrifuge and pulp container into a single unit, making for an easy transfer to the sink without spilling and an even more simplified cleaning process. The Hamilton Beach Big Mouth Premium includes a brush specially designed to fit the filter, making this model easier to handwash than others.
Over the years we have made a lot of juices, from a variety of fruits and vegetables, to bring you the most comprehensive review of juicers on the market.
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Conclusion
Whether you are a juicing enthusiast looking for a top-tier machine, or a new user seeking a bargain model to try out juicing for the first time, the above review covers a wide variety of products to suit every need and budget. This comprehensive look at juicers covers many of the best juicers on the market and will help as a guide so that you feel more empowered in your purchase decision. There are a variety of models and price points, but there is certainly an option here that will fit perfectly in your kitchen.
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Austin Palmer, Aaron Rice, Hayley Thomas, and Genaveve Bradshaw
