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Best Juicer Overall
Nama J2 Cold Press Juicer
Best Easy-Clean Juicer
Hurom H70 Easy Clean Slow Juicer
Best Small Slow Juicer
Nama J3 Cold Press Juicer
Best for Big-Batch Juicing
Kuvings AUTO10 Plus Hands-Free Slow Juicer
There’s No Juice like fresh juice. WIRED has been testing the best juicers for more than a decade, and I can attest that once you’ve pressed rich cider straight from a farm apple, you begin to curse your childhood and all the treacly syrup-water it contained. Fresh juice isn’t just better, it’s different (and also better). Aside from added salt or table sugar in store-bought brands (no, but seriously), freshly made juice has more nutrients, antioxidants, and, especially, flavor. It’s a bit like comparing a new experience to a memory. There’s no going back.
Luckily, a new generation of home slow juicers like our top-pick, Nama J2 Cold-Press Juicer ($580), has made it more possible to make fresh juice part of your daily or weekly routine with much less hassle and less froth, essentially reinventing the old-fashioned fruit press or cider mill for your home countertop. The latest designs can yield everything from smoothies, sorbets, and nut milks to mixers for cocktails and mocktails. And from celery to humble lettuce, you’ll be shocked how many things taste good after you’ve juiced them.
But the right machine is the difference between privilege and chore, and different types of juicers vary wildly in juice yield, ease of cleanup, and the probability of jamming up on a stubborn ginger root. To find the best juicers, we’ve ground whole fruits to a fine pulp, pressed the sweetness from kale, spun a lemon grove’s worth of pith, and tackled reams of fibrous celery and ginger.
Whether you’re looking after your health or you just like a fresh squeeze, here are the best juicers for each kitchen, each person, and each use.
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Update May 2025: We’ve added the Omega JC4000 Wide Mouth and the Omega Time Saving Batch Juicer, and updated prices and photos.
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Best Juicer Overall
Nama J2 Cold Press Juicer
Slim and stylish, the Nama J2 Cold Press Juicer remains the best overall choice among the new wave of slow juicers that allow you to load up a multi-liter hopper full of fruit and vegetables, press a button … and leave the room until your pulp falls out one side and your juice pours beautifully from the spout.
The Korean-made J2 felt revolutionary when it arrived two years ago, a no-fuss cold-press juicer with astonishingly high juice yield, low froth and agitation, and relatively quiet operation. It’s stayed atop our list with an ever-expanding Swiss Army knife of upgrades and extensions that offer new functionality without making its users buy a whole new juicer. This now includes a sorbet option, a strainer, a hopper expansion for extra-large 3-liter batches, and a classic citrus reamer.
Nama’s branding is sunny, as befits a juicing company based in California. But it’s also genuinely friendly to its users, from a lovely little recipe booklet full of helpful tips and ideas to the device’s intuitive assembly, an operating dial with pleasing heft, and even the helpful labeling on the product packaging. This friendliness also manifests in a 15-year warranty that’s now standard among the highest-end juicers such as Kuvings and Hurom. Loyalty begets loyalty.
None of this would matter if the juice weren’t delicious and pleasant to make. WIRED contributing reviewer Emily Peck has hung on to the J2 for more than a year as other juicers come and go. This Nama remains the favorite.
Specs Type Vertical masticating, single-auger Power and speed 200 watts, 50 rpm Height 17.7 inches Weight 12.1 pounds Hopper capacity 2-liter set-and-forget hopper; 3-liter optional extension Strainers 2 strainers: mesh and coarse Perks 15-year warranty; cleaning brush included; option to add sorbet and citrus attachments and 3-liter hopper extender -
Best Easy-Clean Juicer
Photograph: Matthew Korfhage
Hurom
H70 Easy Clean Slow Juicer
A friend told me he’d socked away his old juicer forever. “You spend most of your time cleaning,” he lamented. Lord, if he’d only met this Hurom. The H70, from the 50-year-old South Korean juicing titan, combines two great virtues. Its well-designed chute and auger seem virtually jam-proof. And cleaning is a comparative breeze: fewer parts, fewer odd sticking points for pulp. All told, it takes less than two minutes to disassemble, de-pulp, and set to dry.
In all its particulars, the H70 is made for ease. It’s relatively compact, its lid fastens securely and is released by a finger trigger, and an opening at the top allows you to keep feeding small produce while it’s juicing. And at 150 watts, it’s a little powerhouse. It’ll squeeze hard-frozen bananas and strawberries into ribbons of sorbet, and struggle but prevail over uncut roots of ginger that’ll gum up most juicers. I’ve taken to quartering lemons and limes with their peels still on, for a better-tasting juice than I feel I even deserve. (See also: gimlet.) Relatively little pulp is left compared to previous “easy clean” generations—but still slightly more than the finest juicing screens on non-easy-clean designs.
The H70’s half-liter hopper capacity is about enough to produce a couple of glasses of juice on a single go. This, combined with its ease of cleaning, makes the H70 our all-around favorite for a daily morning routine. It doesn’t offer the versatility and batch-friendly large capacity of the Nama J2—which, incidentally, is also manufactured in Hurom’s South Korean factory. But the H70 does something at least as important: It makes a fresh glass of juice an easy decision in the morning. Some days, ease is elusive.
Specs Type Vertical masticating, two-part “easy-clean” auger Power and speed 150 watts, 60-70 rpm Height x Width x Depth 17.2 x 6.8 x 8.5 inches Weight 14.8 pounds Feeder 2-liter set-and-forget hopper Strainers Two-part auger can make juice and sorbet; no separate strainers. Perks 15-year warranty; cleaning brushes included
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Best Small Slow Juicer
Look, I don’t know why you’d need to cart your slow juicer around with you. I don’t know the interesting life you lead! What I do know is that this is the one I’d pack for a trip. Slow juicers are bulky by nature, pretty much a whole cider mill on your countertop. This 10-pound Nama J3 is about the closest thing to portable you’re likely to get.
It’s also easier to keep in small kitchens where counter space is at a premium. At 15 inches tall, the J3 is among the few true masticating juicers that can tuck under a standard American kitchen cabinet. Yield from a single hopper can net you anywhere from 8 to 16 ounces of beauteous juice, with multiple options on juice strainers in case you, like Tony Soprano, want your juice with “some pulp.”
There are trade-offs, however. The J3 is still an excellent juicer, capable for apples, pears, carrots, celery, and leafy greens. But the condensed hopper and chute, and the smaller processing blade, don’t push through produce as well and easily as the larger Nama J2 and the top-line Kuvings and Hurom. A bit more fruit gets left in the hopper, and the device can jam on fibrous or harder roots like uncut ginger. The price break also isn’t much versus the J2. Turns out making things smaller isn’t always much cheaper.
Specs Type Vertical masticating, stainless steel single-auger Power and speed 130 watts, 50 rpm Dimensions 15.4 x 8.9 x 6.5 inches Weight 9.7 pounds Feeder 1-liter set-and-forget hopper Strainers Fine and coarse juice strainers Perks 15-year warranty; cleaning tools included -
Best for Big-Batch Juicing
Kuvings
AUTO10 Plus Hands-Free Slow Juicer
South Korea’s Kuvings has long been a pioneer in the juicing game, helping usher in the current vogue in whole-fruit slow juicers. The flagship Kuvings is a barrel-shaped top-loader similar to our top-pick Nama J2, allowing you to fill up an entire recipe’s worth of produce at once so you can set and forget. What distinguishes the AUTO10 Plus is its stainless steel processing blade and a 4-liter hopper extension that makes this the largest slow juicer on the market.
Even without the extension, the 18-inch-tall Kuvings is too lofty to be stored under most kitchen cabinets. Its base is also quite heavy, which nonetheless offered stability while a wealth of kale, broccoli, and apple reinvented itself as delicious juice. But while other juicers might be more practical for everyday use, the AUTO10 Plus’ capacity and throughput make it the best juicer we’ve tested for large batches.
You’ll need patience as the juicer laboriously chews up every last bit of ingredients—especially when juicing small fruits such as blueberries. I found that the more ingredients I added to the hopper, the faster the yield. Like the Nama J2, the Kuvings also includes useful attachments such as strainers for ice cream and smoothies. Especially useful is a sieve for the juice cup, to catch pith and pulp as the juice leaves the spout. My otherwise pulpy juice attained a satisfying clarity. —Emily Peck
Specs Type Vertical masticating, stainless steel single-auger Power and speed 240 watts, 50 rpm Dimensions 17.7 x 10 x 8 inches (4-liter hopper extension adds 2 inches) Weight 16.4 pounds Feeder 3 liter set-and-forget hopper; extension adds 1 liter Strainers Fine and coarse juice; and sorbet Perks 15-year warranty; citrus and hopper extension included; pulp strainer included; cleaning tools included
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Best Juicer for Purees and Smoothies
Sana 868 Wide Mouth Vertical Juicer
The Sana is a stylish-looking slow juicer with smooth and quiet functionality. And in a juice world full of plastic, the pulp jug is stainless steel and the juice jug is borosilicate glass. The low-and-slow 50-rpm auger means the Sana can handle both hard and soft fruits, as well as nuts, with limited froth clouding the juice, according to WIRED contribuitng reviewer Emily Peck
But its biggest selling point is versatility, namely the four screen strainers with different mesh to suit different tasks and make it so you don’t need a separate Vitamix or Cuisinart. The fine screen tackles whole apples, while the coarse screen is great for leafy greens and softer fruits such as strawberries and blueberries. The sorbet screen also works well for ice cream and purees.
Smoothies can be a tough task for most juicers, but the Sana excels. Unlike a high-speed blender that could inject air into the mix and create foam and separation, this model is deliberately slow and steady. It juices and mixes the pulp slowly back into the juice to create a nutrient-dense drink.
Specs Type Vertical masticating, stainless steel single-auger Power and speed 240 watts, 50 rpm Dimensions 18 x 9.8 x 7 inches Weight 24 pounds Feeder Wide-mouth feeder Strainers Fine juice, course juice, smoothie and sorbet Perks 15-year warranty; citrus and hopper extension included; pulp strainer included; cleaning tools included -
Best Budget Slow Juicer
Omega Juicers
Time Saving Batch Juicer
The Omega Time Saving Batch Juicer works a lot like the large-hopper Kuvings and Hurom and Nama that top our list, though it’s a bit smaller than the big-batch heroes like the Kuvings AUTO10. But like these, it’s a hopper device that lets you load in piles of veg, and then walk away if you feel like it, while it chews through layers of spinach, carrot, celery, cucumber, and apple.
The Omega is also about a third of the price, despite still being a slow, masticating juicer made in the same South Korean Hurom factory that also produces Nama’s juicers. It fares better than centrifugal juicers with leafy greens. It’s constructed simply, and quite easy to assemble and clean. This all makes this Omega good for beginners to juicing. But the pulp is wetter than our top picks, and the juice is a little pulpier, and this Omega leaves a little more material in the hopper. Over time, the fruit and juice waste will add up compared to the more expensive, more efficient top picks. The operating time is also low, only 10 minutes at a stretch, making this low-cost model less suitable for batch juicing. Those who don’t like pulp will also need a strainer.
Specs. Type Vertical masticating, single-auger Power and speed 150 watts, 45 to 80 RPM Dimensions 18 x 9 x 9 inches Weight 9.5 pounds Feeder 2-liter set-and-forget hopper Strainers Juice Perks 1-year warranty
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Best for Speed-Juicing
Breville
The Juice Fountain Cold XL
This Breville Juice Fountain Cold XL is the Cadillac of fast centrifugal juicers, a highly customizable 13,000-rpm beast whose cutting disc flings juice through an “Italian-made mesh filter.” Breville claims, quite credibly, that the high-powered Juice Fountain can extract juice up to five times faster than a cold-press juicer. This juiced-up juicer is indeed fast, near instantaneously pulverizing fruit. It’s also large, standing nearly 18 inches high, with a broad feeder chute that’ll accept a whole apple.
The “cold” in the device’s name refers not to cold press but rather what the brand calls “cold spin technology,” which elevates the juice away from the device’s spinning base and thus raises the temperature less than some other centrifugal juicers. Though it’s unlikely other centrifugal juicers are actually “cooking” your juice by raising its temp by a few degrees, as some quixotically claim online, colder juice is certainly nicer.
But as with all centrifugal juicers, you will always get some froth in the bargain. And WIRED reviewer Emily Peck reported that the Breville’s yields were poor on softer fruits and berries compared to slow masticating juicers. But the Cold XL “blitzed in seconds” harder apples, carrots, and cucumbers—as opposed to the multiple minutes needed to clear a slow-juice hopper.
Specs Type Centrifugal Power and speed 1,200 watts, 13,000 rpm Dimensions 17.4 x 13.4 x 8.7 inches Weight 14.6 pounds Feeder Wide-mouth feed chute Strainers Juice mesh Perks 1-year warranty; froth separator on juice jug; detachable spout for juicing into glasses directly; cleaning tools included -
A Classic Design That Can Also Make Pasta
Sana
707 Cold Press Juicer
The “Ferrari red” version of this horizontal juicer from Sana looks fast but juices slow—see what we did there? WIRED reviewer Emily Peck attests it chews handily through broccoli, kale, carrots, pineapples, pears, and pretty much anything else you throw at it.
But as with other horizontal-auger slow juicers—the most classic design for the genre going back to the mid-20th century—you will indeed need to be present for the juicing process and slow feed your produce into the chute. The chute is also not quite wide enough for a whole apple, which means you’d do well to cut it.
But this little thing can apparently do a lot more than juice. By rearranging its parts or adding attachments, the Sana theoretically can be configured for pasta, peanut butter, or even coffee grinding, not to mention pressing oils from nuts. We haven’t had the opportunity to test these expanded capabilities, but the modular character of the device is intriguing.
Specs Type Horizontal masticating, single-auger Power and speed 150 watts, 63 rpm Dimensions 12.5 x 16.5 x 7.9 inches Weight 12.5 pounds Feeder Vertical feed tube Strainers Fine and coarse juice; homogenizing screen for sorbets and nut milks Perks 15-year warranty; cleaning tools included; celery insert; pasta set with multiple shapes
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Best Low-Cost Centrifugal Juicer
Nutribullet
Magic Bullet Mini Juicer
Like most fast-whizzing centrifugal juicers, this little Nutribullet is loud, nearly 90 decibels—about the same as standing near a motorcycle. The juice will also be frothy after all that agitation. WIRED reviewer Emily Peck found that the device doesn’t fare well with softer fruits such as blueberries and that trying to juice kale will leave behind quite a bit of pulp compared to the best slow juicers.
But the price is also a full degree of magnitude less than the gentler, top-line slow juicers we’ve ranked as our favorites. This Nutribullet also keeps a smaller profile. At little more than a foot high, it’s easy to stash in a cabinet. The device performs quite well in its wheelhouse of harder produce such as apples or carrots, and the feeder tube allows you to feed carrots or celery without chopping. It’ll also make short work of ginger, and everything but its motorized base is dishwasher safe.
Specs Type Centrifugal Power and speed 400 watts Dimensions 11 x 7 x 6 inches Weight 4.5 pounds Feeder Feed chute and 16-ounce hopper Strainers Juice mesh Perks 1-3 year warranty; sieve and cleaning tool -
A Stylish Citrus Juicer
This Smeg Citrus Juicer has one purpose: to squeeze the life out of oranges, lemons, grapefruits and limes. But specialization is needed: Peeling and preparing citrus for juicing is a bit of a unique hassle. Only our most powerful top picks among the slow juicers can hack av peel-on lemon.
Enter the citrus juicer, which squeezes just the middles out of halved citrus. Press the soft innards down on the reamer, and the Smeg will start automatically, dripping the juice out of the spout and into your waiting cup. I’ll be honest, most citrus juicers work pretty well at their intended purpose. The Smeg’s chief distinguishing merit is that it does so stylishly.
The retro design is beautifully curvy, it comes in fun colors ranging from matte pastels to loud red and black. It’s less than a foot tall, a mere 70 watts, and looks charming when not in use—which means it can live prettily on your counter if you love a daily squeeze of orange juice, a lovely ceviche, or an even lovelier gimlet.
Specs. Type Citrus Power and speed 70 watts Dimensions 11 x 7 x 7 inches Weight 6 pounds Feeder Citrus reamer Strainers Juice Perks 1-year warranty
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Five Tips for Fresh and Healthy Juicing
Professional nutritionist Kylie Jane shares her advice on healthy juicing.
Juicing is an easy way to add more fruit and vegetables to your diet, but there are ways to maximize the health benefits and minimize drawbacks like blood sugar spikes. We asked Kylie Jane, nutritionist and founder of UK wellness brand SANA Wellness (unrelated to Korean juicer brand Sana Products), for her advice on healthy juicing. —Emily Peck
- Balance fruit with vegetables: Fruits can contain a lot of sugar, so to combat this, make vegetables the base 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, go for those with a lower glycemic index like green apples, berries, and pears.
- Incorporate fiber: Juicing removes most of the fiber from fruits and vegetables, but it’s crucial for slowing down the absorption of sugar, aiding digestive health, and keeping you feeling full. Consider blending some of your juice with whole fruits or vegetables to keep some of the fiber intact. Alternatively, add a fiber supplement or incorporate some pulp in cooking or baking to ensure you’re getting enough.
- Add healthy fats: To stabilize blood sugar levels and increase satiety, incorporate sources of healthy fats into your juicing routine, such as avocado or coconut oil.
- Enhance with “superfoods”: Matcha and collagen are popular supplements that can easily be added to juices for an extra health boost. A teaspoon of matcha is rich in antioxidants and provides a gentle energy boost without the jitters of caffeine. Collagen may help with skin elasticity and hydration, as well as healthy hair, nails, and joints.
- Choose the right time to juice: Drinking juice on an empty stomach can sometimes cause blood sugar levels to spike more quickly. It’s often better to drink juice as part of a meal or after you’ve eaten some solid food, especially foods high in fiber, protein, or fats, to help slow down the absorption of sugar.
Other Juicers We Liked
Photograph: Emily Peck
Omega Juicers VSJ843RR for $324: WIRED contributing reviewer Emily Peck also tested and recommended this juicer in previous versions of this guide, praising its excellent juice and high yield. But the device is less intuitive than the current generation of high-end juicers, leafy greens required a bit of fiddling to push through the feeder tube, and the device struggled with fibrous vegetables such as pineapple and broccoli.
Omega Juicers Wide Mount Cold Press Juicer JC4000 for $119: On the one hand, this Omega wide-mouth is quite economical for a slow cold press juicer. But it’s also a lot of fiddly work to asemble it properly, it leaves a fair amount of pulp unextracted, and despite its “wide-mouth” name requires a bit of chopping to feed fruits that aren’t carrots or celery through its vertical feeder—at least as compared to newer-model hoppers. It’ll get the job done, for not a lot of money. But you may not fall in love with it, and as a budget cold-press pick I prefer Omega’s batch model.
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How We Tested and What We Tested
We put each juicer through the paces, funneling a mountain of vegetables and fruit through each device, testing especially its ability to handle both tough and fibrous veggies and softer produce such as greens and berries. We taste test a classic green juice (apples, carrots, celery, cucumber, leafy greens) and a carrot-apple-ginger. We also compare both the yield and frothiness of the juice among different juicers, from the same recipe or the same fruit.
As of the most recent round of testing (January 2025), we also subjected each device to “torture tests” by intentionally not following instructions: loading produce in the wrong order, failing to chop ginger or pineapple, and leaving lemon in its peel, to see which devices spin fruitlessly or jam up sadly with fiber and pulp.
We test each device with a decibel meter, noting when it’s much louder or quieter than the 65 decibels one might reach during polite conversation. And we assess each device for ease of cleaning.
Some cocktails were also created, all in the name of research.
What Are the Different Types of Juicers?
Most all-purpose juicers fall into one of two types. Centrifugal juicers or masticating slow juicers that are also known as “cold press.”
A centrifugal juicer offers speed and a lot of power. In essence, it operates a bit like a blender with an added mesh screen to separate juice from pulp. A fast-rotating blade shreds fruit and produce and grinds them up against a mesh screen, often at a speed of thousands of revolutions per minute. Whatever passes through the mesh is the juice.
The power and speed mean centrifugal juicers are often whizzes at processing roots, pineapples, and other harder or dense-fibered produce that might pose difficulty for a slow-press auger. Softer fruits such as berries or leafy greens won’t do so well here, offering lower juice yields or even clogging up the mesh screens. Centrifugal juicers also tend to produce frothier juice, given the high agitation. That said, rotating quickly also makes them quick.
A masticating juicer—sometimes called a “slow” or “cold press” juicer—is both the newest trend in juicing and a much older technology. Basically, slow juicers operate on the same principle as an old-fashioned cider mill, slowly “chewing” and pressing fruit at a much lower rate, which some believe subjects fruits and vegetables to less oxidation and heat and thus preserves more of their essential character.
More verifiably, slow juicers tend to net higher juice yields and less waste than centrifugal juicers and are more effective in particular on leafy greens, soft fruits, and berries. They also add less froth and aeration to the resulting juice and produce more evenly textured results.
Masticating juicers were once loaded into a horizontal grinder and chute, which took some effort and required you to attend to juicing during the whole process. More recently, the advent of vertical masticating juicers from South Korea changed all that—with big hoppers one can load up, shrug, and depart from as the juicer does its work. The majority of juicers we’ve included in our guide, and all of our top picks, are now slow, masticating juicers.
We’ve also included a classic citrus juicer for simple orange, lemon, and lime drinks. These are quite simple devices and mostly the same as each other aside from style and ergonomics. Basically, you press a halved citrus fruit onto the ridged dome of a reamer and turn on the device. The reamer will twirl till the juice is juiced.
Masticating and centrifugal juicers can, of course, juice unpeeled citrus—and the added zest can be quite flavorful in lemon and lime juice. (Actually, this is my preference.) But to avoid such zestiness, you’d otherwise have to peel your citrus before loading into a juicing chamber. The easiest way to juice an orange will always be to halve it and press it against the ridged dome of a citrus juicer.
Once you’ve decided what ingredients you want to put in your juicer—be it hard fruit or leafy vegetables—it will be easier to choose between a masticating “slow” juicer or a faster centrifugal design. Either way, it’s important to look for a juicer that comes with the relevant accessories you need. For tasks other than juicing—such as making nut milks and butters or ice creams and sorbets—you’ll need a juicer with the relevant food processing parts.
Also consider how much you’re willing to prep your ingredients. While there are regulations on the size of the feeding chute you can find due to safety reasons, some juicers are equipped to take a whole apple in one, which means less chopping. To make it even simpler, the most modern slow juicers, like those from Nama and Hurom, have self-feeding hoppers.
Dishwasher-safe parts are practical and save scrubbing time, but please be aware, even the easiest-cleaning juicers will take time and attention to clean. Pith, rind, pulp, and juice are sticky and messy. That’s just how it is.
A Reverse button is another useful feature to look for, especially with slow juicers. This allows you to reverse the juicing process should you overeagerly stack your juicer and ingredients gets stuck. —Emily Peck
