- The Quick List
- Best juicer overall
- Best centrifugal juicer
- Best combination blender and juicer
- Best slow juicer
- Best for beginners
- Best for small spaces
- Best premium masticating juicer
- Best for big portions
- Best juicer for citrus
- Best budget juicer
- Best juicer under $100
- How we tested juicers
- FAQs
- Meet the team
- Final thoughts
Bringing one of the best juicers into your kitchen is a step toward a healthier lifestyle, with nutrients packed into every glass. Whether it's apples, ginger, carrots, or even nuts that you want to incorporate, one of these top juicers is up to the task.
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All of the juicers included in this guide have been thoroughly reviewed by members of our reviews team, so you can not only trust that we have had hands-on experience of each one, but you can click through to read complete reviews, and learn more about each juicer's benefits and drawbacks.
We tested each juicer for the quality of the results, functionality, ease of use and special features. We also took the time to note how easy the juicers were to take apart, clean and put back together again, since we know first-hand that this can be time-consuming.
Juicers can easily rival the best blenders when it comes to creating morning drinks, with the added ability to remove unwanted pulp and fibers from a range of ingredients. These are our favorites.
The Quick List
Our testers found this made the cleanest, purest juice. We tested hard fruits, soft fruits, and vegetables and this machine could do it all, including making smoothies and sorbets.
This is powerful, with a wide chute that makes it easy to use too. Centrifugal juicers can be quicker and more thorough; it didn't even blink when juicing carrot and ginger.
For a blender and juicer in one, this is perfect. It's powerful, easy to use, and has five different juicing speeds. It didn't struggle with citrus, hard fruits, or vegetables.
For slow, single-serve juicing, this is a brilliant option. It comes in a range of bright colors and made delicious juice. It's compact quiet, and really quick to juice too.
If you're new to juicing, this is easy to use and easy on the eye too. It comes with a useful recipe book and you'll need next to no guidance to make delicious juices and sorbets.
This neat, slow juicer is a fruit-specialist. It's wonderfully compact, perfect for small spaces, but can still make delicious juices. It's really quiet too.
Capable, compact, and lightweight, this is a beautiful juicer to look at. Aside from tackling nuts and seeds, it can make ice cream and tofu too.
With a 70 oz jug, you'll always be able to make enough juice for the whole household. The feeding chute is easy to use with fruit and vegetables.
This is the best citrus juicer you can get and it looks elegant too. It's reasonable priced, easy to use, and is the kind of juicer you'll want to display proudly.
The best juicers 2023
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Best juicer overall
'I found that the Kuvings EVO820 produces the cleanest, purest juice,' reports our tester Camryn Rabideau. Easily powering through both hard and soft fruits and vegetables, this versatile machine can also make smoothies and sorbets, and all of the recipes we tested were perfect.
One of the hassles with masticating juicers is that you have to cut fruit into small chunks, but Kuvings solves that with its wide 3.22in feeding chute. 'While I still needed to cut fruit and remove seeds, I could fit bigger chunks in, so get results faster, really useful when I was making drinks for the whole family,' says Camryn. 'The operation is really easy, too: turn the machine on and push the fruit through the machine.'
Water can be run through the machine for a quick rinse between drinks, but the parts otherwise have to be disassembled (an easy job) and hand-washed.
The big drawback is price, as this juicer usually costs $600. However, this isn't unusual for a slow juicer. Camryn found that 'if you want the absolute best-quality juice' then the Kuvings EVO820 is worth the price.
Our full Kuvings EVO820 review has more details
Best centrifugal juicer
The NutriBullet NBJ50200 Juicer Pro is the best centrifugal juicer, powering through tough ingredients like carrot and ginger for hundreds less than the best slow juicers. It comes with everything you need, including a freezer tray, a pitcher with froth separator, two glass to-go bottles, and a cleaner brush and recipe manual. Its wide chute can fit plenty of fruits and vegetables without the need to chop, and it's large enough to make family-sized drinks.
On test we were impressed by the two speeds and the recipe book that walked us through everything we needed to know to make delicious juices. This Nutribullet was also easy to clean because most of the parts can go in the dishwasher.
The Nutribullet has a medium capacity. I found that with larger or less wet items the pulp basket filled up quite fast. It needs to be emptied a few times if you plan on making juice for more than two people, so consider something with a chute for non-stop juicing. It also struggles with leafy greens like kale.
Our full NutriBullet Juicer Pro review has more details.
Best combination blender and juicer
This is two appliances in one, saving you from buying both a blender and a juicer. It has removable attachments for blending and juicing, and you can use the blender pitcher to catch all the juice from the juicer spout. You could then even blend some ice or fresh fruit into your juice for delicious drinks and frozen cocktails.
While we were was very impressed by the blending modes on the Breville The 3x Bluicer, it's the juicing capabilities that wowed us. It has five juicing speeds with illustrations of different fruits and vegetables to help you choose the right one, as well as a diagram to show you which mode to use for which ingredients.
We found that Mode 1 is great for soft fruits such as citrus, and I also used 5 to power through whole apples. Because the 3.5-inch feeding chute was plenty wide, I could drop them in with no prep, making it very easy to create speedy juices.
The one complaint I have was the high levels of froth, which is common with centrifugal juicers. However, the pulp was absolutely bone dry, which is seriously impressive. Not all parts can go in the dishwasher, but the Bluicer does come with a brush to remove pulp and fibers from the juicer filter.
Our full Breville The 3x Bluicer review has more details.
Best slow juicer
The Hurom HP Slow Juicer comes in a few sweet colors including mint, pink and white. It made delicious clementine and strawberry juice, with incredibly dry pulp that showed remarkable efficiency. By the standards of slow juicers, it's pretty quick, and delivers generous quantities of juice. When we were testing it, we noted that it's one of the quietest juicers that we've tested, but it doesn't lack power as a result. In fact, it extracted a lot of juice from our fruits and vegetables. If you're not sure where to start, it also includes a handy recipe book with a range of delicious recipes. We tried a few and made perfect juices.
Getting started was easy, but we noticed that the Hurom was quite heavy to lift, especially for its size. It also comes with eight different parts which don't make cleaning easy. In fact, they're not all dishwasher safe, so you'll need to set some time aside for cleaning. This is quite normal for a juicer, but is worth noting anyway. The feeding chute is also quite narrow, so you'll want to prep your fruit and vegetables well in advance.
Our full Hurom HP Slow Juicer review has more details.
Best juicer for beginners
First of all, this looks incredible. It will slot straight into a contemporary kitchen and has a lot of counter appeal. It's a high-end, good looking appliance. More important than that, however, is that this juicer is easy to use. The instructions and assembly are easy to follow, and Nama also include recipes to help you get the most out of your juicing. Once assembled, just turn the dial and wait for your juice. There's nothing to learn or master, just straightforward juice.
This juice also aced our taste tests, creating an utterly flawless green juice with kale, spinach, cucumber and apple. It also made a perfect orange juice with the exact ratio of froth and pulp to make a refreshing, healthy drink, as well as a delicious frozen berry sorbet. For ease of use and taste, this juicer is hard to beat.
This is a very tall appliance, about a foot and a half. If you're tight on space or your cabinets have a low clearance above your countertop, this might not work for your space. I noticed a little dripping form the juicer long after I turned it off, which is a little messy, and we also found it tricky to clean. Our cleaning expert Millie Hurst happened to be on hand and had a go a cleaning it, and found a lot of nooks and crannies where juicer material could get stuck. To be fair, this juicer comes with a handy cleaning tool, but if you're pushed for time it might not be easy to clean.
Our full Nama J2 review has more details.
Best juicer for small spaces
Small and well-built, this compact juicer doesn’t take up much space and has few components, making assembly easy. It's reasonably priced, and the 3 inch chute means you don't need to chop up fruit or vegetables, saving prep time. All the parts apart from the auger are dishwasher safe, saving you on from hand washing too.
It easily juiced spears of pineapple and whole strawberries, making delicious juice. Our tester Courtney also found that it's much quieter than other juicers on the market.
It can be tricky to wrestle the auger out of this juicer, and sometimes pulp made it through the strainer.
Our full NutriBullet Slow Juicer review has more details.
Best premium masticating juicer
The H-AA is versatile, lightweight, and lovely to look at. It's available in three colors and can be used to make ice cream or tofu. It's also capable of working with nuts and seeds, so you can even make nut milk in this slow juicer. Our product tester Camryn Rabideau noted that it operates quietly too, even when working with firm ingredients.
'It’s more sleek and versatile than the Hurom HP Slow Juicer, and overall, it does a great job extracting the maximum amount of juice from all types of ingredients. It can be used to make frozen treats and smoothies, and it’s compact enough to keep on your kitchen counter when it’s not in use,' reports Camryn.
'I did notice that the ejection chute can clog up quite easily, so be on standby to clean it out as you juice. With a model like the Kuvings EVO820, you’re able to simply toss whole pieces of fruit into the extra-large chute, and it will chew them up with ease,' concludes Camryn.
Our full Hurom H-AA Slow Juicer review has more details
Best juicer for big portions
The Juice Fountain can get through fruit quickly thanks to its 3.5in feeding chute, which means most fruits can be dropped in without cutting. There are two-speed settings on the side, with 'High' for harder fruits and vegetables (carrots, mango, and so on) and 'Low' for softer fruits.
'With the pulp container at the rear, this juicer isn’t too wide, but it’s long and still takes up a lot of counter or cabinet space,' reports our tester Camryn. 'The "Cold" in its name refers to the design of the blade, which increases the fruit temperature by no more than 2ºF. I found that juice quality is generally very good, although a touch on the frothy side and not as clean as from a masticating juicer.'
Although the majority of parts are dishwasher safe, there are quite a few components to disassemble. 'Still, with the large capacity, I found I didn't have to make juice that often. So if you are into batch processing or have a larger family, I think the Breville Juice Fountain Cold Plus is a great choice.'
Our full Breville Juice Fountain Cold Plus Juicer review has more details
Best juicer for citrus
If you’re primarily after a juicer to deal with oranges or other citrus fruit, the Smeg Citrus Juicer is an elegant and well-priced solution. Available in black, red, and a range of pastel colors, the juicer has Smeg’s well-known 50s styling, making it a style icon that you’d proudly have on display. It's super-easy to operate - on test, all we needed to do was cut our fruit in half and press each part onto the reamer. There’s plenty of torque to extract juice, although it’s more of a slow-and-steady approach, so making multiple drinks does take some time. Once finished, I found the reamer, cover, filter and juice collector all easy to remove and wash in the dishwasher, making this a quick juicer to clean up.
The only reason this juicer is so far down this buying guide is that it can only juice citrus. It's a great choice if you want simple, fresh orange juice every day, but you're out of luck if you want to juice anything else.
Our full Smeg Citrus Juicer review has more details.
Best budget juicer
Juice extraction from the Ninja JC101 Cold Press Pro was very good, although a fair amount of pulp makes it through in the process. This is a juicer better suited to softer fruits, so if you routinely use harder fruits and vegetables, you should look elsewhere on this list.
It has three color-coded filters for differing levels of pulp and works very slowly to extract as much juice as it can. However, the pulp still came out a little damp. if you are on a tighter budget looking for a small but powerful juicer, the Ninja JC101 Cold Press Pro is a great option.
In our testing process, we found that we needed to cut fruits and veggies into two-inch pieces before juicing, otherwise they became stuck in the somewhat narrow tube. There’s a single on/off button that turns on the motor, after which we could press the fruit through the juicer, with the pulp separated into a dedicated container. It was a touch fiddly to disassemble, the juicer’s plastic parts can be put in the dishwasher, but the remainder must be hand-washed.
Our full Ninja JC101 Cold Press Pro review has more details.
Best juicer under $100
This juicer is hundreds of dollars cheaper than the expensive models on this list, and while it can't match them for performance, it's good option if money is tight.
It made delicious juices from softer fruits, and it's straightforward to use, with one power setting. We loved the arms, which clamp down to keep the lid safe and steady, and the suction-cup feet to keep it in place on the countertop.
Unlike the expensive models here, this is really easy to store - it's pretty small and will fit under any cabinet. It's dishwasher-safe too, so it's easy to clean, but it comes with a brush for washing it by hand too. I loved the 16oz cup that comes with this juicer - it's a little limited but the perfect size for taking to work or the gym.
This is great for under $100, but it simply can't compete with larger, more expensive juicers. The juice it makes tastes great, but it's a foamy, thick drink that in all honestly is closer to the texture of a smoothie than juice. It struggles with leafy greens and some fruit skins. Because you have to load the ingredients in one at a time through a small chute, it can be messy, and it's pretty noisy too.
Our full Magic Bullet Mini Juicer review has more details
How we review and test the best juicers
The Hurom H-AA Slow Juicer on test
The two main things we assessed when testing these juicers were capacity and the ingredients that can be used. Capacity shows you how much juice you can make in one go, with larger capacity machines ideal for large homes or for creating batches of juice and storing the results in the fridge.
We know that how we test the products we recommend is important, which is why we researched the models on offer to make sure that we covered a variety of brands and price levels, and we also took care to include a variety of slow and centrifugal juicers, as well as citrus juicers.
Through our testing process, we examind how well each juicer handled soft and firm ingredients, monitoring the level of foam, noise, and checking how damp the pulp was to see how effective the juicer was at removing all of the available juice. Some juicers claim to be able to make nut milk and even ice cream, so when we tested one of these models we were sure to assess all of the claims made by each brand. It's also important to consider factors like how easy is it to clean a juicer, so oftentimes you will find us mentioning clean-up.
FAQs
What's the difference between slow juicer and a fast juicer?
There are two main types of general-purpose juicers: masticating and centrifugal. Both work in different ways and have their own benefits.
Centrifugal juicers
Centrifugal juicers use a fast-spinning blade to chop up fruit and vegetables, using fine mesh filters to separate the juice from the pulp. The main benefit of this type of machine is that you can throw in whole fruits, giving you quick results with little preparation. These tend to be cheaper.
Look for a machine that has multiple speed controls, so that you can adjust how fast the blades move to suit different types of produce: slow for soft fruits and faster for hard.
The downside is that these juicers aren’t as efficient, so some juice gets passed out with the pulp. With the air and heat that’s introduced, juice can be frothy and may not last as long when stored.
These types of juices also aren’t as good when it comes to some ingredients, such as leafy greens and herbs.
Masticating juicers
Masticating juicers use a crushing, squeezing element to extract juice. Although also known as slow juicers, these products aren’t that much slower than their centrifugal counterparts. However, they are typically more expensive.
Preparation is generally more involved with these models, and you’ll have to cut up fruit first and, usually, remove hard seeds, adding preparation time into the mix.
Though, masticating juicers are much more efficient, so you’ll get more juice from each fruit, and with less air and heat added, the juice tastes fresher and should last for longer.
Herbs and leafy greens are easily dealt with, but harder fruits and vegetables should be cut carefully into smaller junks to prevent blockages. These machines are generally harder to take apart and clean, with few having dishwasher-safe components.
Citrus Juicers
For those who may only care about fresh orange juice, then a citrus juicer can be a good choice. Cheaper and easier to use, these use a motor to spin a reamer that removes the juice from inside the orange (or other citrus fruit).
You can’t use other fruits in these juicers, making them more limited, but if you don’t mind, these products are cheaper and easier to maintain than the other types of juicer.
Should I buy a juicer or blender?
Comparing juicers vs blenders? Know that blenders mash everything together, while juicers are designed to separate the pulp from the juice, giving a smoother, more drink-like result.
What is the best juicer?
We think the best juicer you can buy is the Kuvings EVO820, for its unique flip-gate chute that drops ingredients into the chute, eliminating the need for a safety fin or a pusher. The feed chute is also wider and you can use it to make smoothies.
If you're after a more cost-effective centrifugal design, the Nutribullet Juicer Pro impressed us with its wide chute and juicy quality for the money. We also like that it comes with a range of accessories including to-go cups and freezer trays. However, the pulp tray does fill fairly quickly and it is on the noisy side.
How much does a juicer cost?
How much you spend, depends on your needs and how much you’ll use a juicer. For occasional use, or for a single person, you can get a perfectly serviceable juicer for around $100.
If you want the best-quality juice, need to make more, or want to expand the range of ingredients that you’re using, then the top juicers come in at more than $400.
More expensive juicers, particularly masticating ones, produce more juice than cheaper models. Factor this into the price when you pay: for those that buy a lot of fresh produce, a more expensive juicer helps you maximize your return.
Meet the team
Camryn is a freelance writer and product reviewer specializing in home, kitchen, and pet products. In her years as a product tester, she's tested hundreds of items firsthand, and her work appears in publications such as Forbes, USA Today, The Spruce, Food52, and more.
Camryn does her product testing from her small homestead in beautiful Rhode Island. From this list, she has tested the Kuvings EVO820 Whole Slow Juicer, the Hurom H-AA Slow Juicer and the Breville Juice Fountain Cold Plus Juicer.
Millie is the Head of Reviews at Homes & Gardens, and spends her time reviewing new and exciting product launches, as well as recommending her favorite products in buying guides. She's one of the best product testers in the business, with hundreds of appliances under her belt. She tested the Nutribullet Juicer Pro, the Breville The 3x Bluicer, and the Smeg Citrus Juicer in this round-up.
Jaclyn was the US eCommerce editor across the homes titles at Future, including Homes & Gardens. From this list, she tested out the Huron HP Slow Juicer, using it just as you would so you know exactly what you are buying.
Alex is Head of eCommerce at Homes & Gardens and spends his days trawling the internet for the latest product launches and deals, as well as testing homes products in our specialised test facility. He got hands-on with Nama's latest juicer for this guide, as well as the Magic Bullet Mini Juicer.
Midwestern product tester and writer Courtney Irwin is a working mom of three who loves nothing more than a good deal. Equal parts entrepreneur and family-gal, she regularly tests kitchen appliances for Homes & Gardens, including juicers and blenders. For this buying guide, Courtney reviewed the Nutribullet Slow Juicer.
Final thoughts
We've tested plenty of juicers over the years, and our tests have found that these are the best. Whether you're just starting out or a seasoned juicing expert, these are the very best products you can buy.
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