Which fruits and vegetables do you mainly juice or want to juice? Citrus fruits? Berries? Vegetables? Leafy greens? Your choices of which fruit and vegetables to juice will influence which juicer is best suited to meet your juicing needs.

Centrifugal juicers operate at high speeds and use fast spinning blades to send juice outwards towards the sides of the juicer while retaining the pulp in the center. The filtered juice exits via the juicer’s spout and pours into your container. Centrifugal juicers are best to use with bigger, more solid produce like apples, carrots, ginger, celery and beets. Conversely, centrifugal juicers are typically not the best choice when also regularly juicing leafy greens, wheat grass or berries. Powerful centrifugal juicers rapidly move produce through their spinning blades. Leafy greens and wheat grass need to be processed more slowly to extract their juice. Similarly, soft berries pass through a centrifugal juicer too quickly.

Masticating juicers, vertical slow speed juicers or wheatgrass juicers are better suited for juicing thin leafy produce or softer produce. These juicers extract more juice from these types of produce by more slowly grinding, gnashing, squeezing and tearing it.

Published 4/11/2010 12:00:00 AM

Tags: Masticating Juicers, Centrifugal Juicers