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The Best Juicers

Make carrot, apple or green juice at 6 a.m. without waking the house.

By Nell Harlan · Updated Oct 9, 202624 juicers compared

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Buy the Nama J2. Cut the carrots into big chunks, drop them in the hopper with cored apples and a knob of ginger, close the lid, and it feeds itself while you make the toast. It costs about $599.

For about $150 there are two good ways in. The Ninja presses slowly like the Nama, and it's where I'd start if green juice is the goal. The Breville spins instead. It's fast, its chute takes a whole apple, and it's made for a family that wants orange-carrot juice with breakfast.

Our picks

Best overallNama J2 Cold Press JuicerCheck price on Amazon
Best under $150Ninja NeverClog Cold Press JuicerCheck price on Amazon
Best for greens and wheatgrassOmega J8006HDS JuicerCheck price on Amazon
Best centrifugalBreville Juice Fountain ColdCheck price on Amazon
Best small juicerMagic Bullet Mini JuicerCheck price on Amazon

At a glance

  1. 1.Nama J2 Cold Press Juicerabout $599
    Best for
    Load it once and walk away
    Type
    Slow (masticating), self-feeding
    Cleanup
    Hand wash only
    Warranty
    15 years, all parts
  2. 2.Ninja NeverClog Cold Press Juicerabout $150
    Best for
    Green juice on a budget
    Type
    Slow (masticating)
    Cleanup
    Dishwasher (juice parts)
    Warranty
    1 year
  3. 3.Omega J8006HDS Juicerabout $205
    Best for
    Kale, spinach and wheatgrass
    Type
    Slow (masticating), horizontal
    Cleanup
    Top-rack dishwasher
    Warranty
    15 years
  4. 4.Breville Juice Fountain Coldabout $150
    Best for
    Fast juice for the whole family
    Type
    Centrifugal, 2 speeds
    Cleanup
    Top rack, except lid and jug
    Warranty
    1 year
  5. 5.Magic Bullet Mini Juicerabout $50
    Best for
    One glass at a time, small kitchens
    Type
    Compact, fast
    Cleanup
    Top rack, except the base
    Warranty
    1 year

The 5 juicers, ranked

1 · Best overall
Nama J2 Cold Press Juicer

Nama J2 Cold Press Juicer

Bon Appétit's best juicer again this year.

$599.00as of 7:27 AM ET
Check price on Amazon
Buy it if

You'll juice four or five days a week, greens and roots and fruit, and you're tired of standing at a chute pushing things in one piece at a time.

Skip it if

You want parts that go in the dishwasher. Every piece of this one gets washed by hand.

What puts it first is the slow screw doing the work on its own. Once the lid is closed it pulls the produce down at 50 RPM and presses it, so the pulp comes out drier than a spinning juicer leaves it and greens give up more of their juice.

There are two filters: a fine one for clear juice (and almond milk, if you go that way) and a coarse one for a pulpier glass. Prep is light but real. Nama's manual wants carrots and beets in 1- to 3-inch pieces, celery, ginger and kale in 2 to 3 inches, and the seeds out of the apples. Long celery strings are what wrap around the screw.

Nama covers every part for 15 years, for the first owner with proof of purchase. Keep the receipt.

What owners report

What owners like most is how quickly it rinses clean. The complaints come in this order: pulp in the juice, or pulp that comes out wet; a machine that stopped or wouldn't start, often in the first month; and celery, ginger or pineapple that wrapped around the screw and stopped it.

Flaws but not dealbreakers
  • It keeps dripping for a few minutes after you switch it off. Leave the cup under the spout.
  • Nothing frozen, and no pits or hard seeds.
Under your cabinets

17.7 inches tall and about 12 pounds. Measure the gap under your upper cabinets before you order.

50 RPMFine and coarse filters17.7 in tall3 colors
2
Ninja NeverClog Cold Press Juicer
Best under $150

Ninja NeverClog Cold Press Juicer

Two filters in the box, one for clear juice and one for juice with body.

$149.95as of 7:27 AM ETCheck price on Amazon
Buy it if

You want a slow juicer, and about $150 is the budget.

Skip it if

Your juice is mostly carrots and beets. Hard roots are where this one struggles.

Read the full write-up

TechGearLab ranked this one first out of 13 juicers. It did its best work on leafy greens and wheatgrass, and its worst on hard vegetables (beets made it squeak). If kale, cucumber and celery go in most days, I'd take this over a fast juicer at the same price.

Everything that touches the juice can go in the dishwasher, Ninja says. The chute is narrow. Cut beets into small cubes and celery into short lengths, and keep the reverse button in mind when something sticks. It's just under 16 inches tall and about 8 pounds, and Ninja says it fits under cabinets.

Flaws but not dealbreakers
  • No cleaning brush in the box. A cheap bottle brush does the job on the filter.
  • The warranty is one year.
Reverse buttonAnti-drip lever24 oz jugUnder 16 in tall
3
Omega J8006HDS Juicer
Best for greens and wheatgrass

Omega J8006HDS Juicer

An end cap with five settings, loose for wheatgrass and tight for citrus.

$204.99as of 7:27 AM ETCheck price on Amazon
Buy it if

You drink wheatgrass shots, or most of your juice is kale, spinach and herbs.

Skip it if

You don't want to chop. The chute is small and nearly everything has to be cut down first.

Read the full write-up

Apples go in as wedges and carrots in short pieces. Feed leaves a handful at a time and let the juice run before the next handful. In return you get a slow press at 80 RPM that gets a lot out of leaves. Tom's Guide pulled 79 percent juice from an apple, kale and celery mix with it, tied for the best result in its lineup.

Swap the screen for the blank cone and the nozzles that come in the box, and it'll grind nut butter or push out fresh pasta, which I'd call a nice extra and not a reason to buy it.

Omega backs it for 15 years, and the removable parts go on the top rack of the dishwasher.

Flaws but not dealbreakers
  • Omega asks you to stop after 30 minutes and let it cool for 5.
80 RPM5 pressure settingsPasta nozzles includedMakes nut butter
4
Breville Juice Fountain Cold
Best centrifugal

Breville Juice Fountain Cold

Seventy ounces in one go, with a lid on the jug so it goes straight into the fridge.

$149.95as of 7:27 AM ETCheck price on Amazon
Buy it if

You want juice for four in a few minutes, mostly apples, carrots, oranges and pineapple.

Skip it if

Most of what you juice is leafy. Greens are the weak spot of every fast juicer.

Read the full write-up

Built for carrots and apples

This is the classic fast juicer: a 3-inch chute, an 850-watt motor and a mesh basket spinning underneath, and America's Test Kitchen, which picked it as its favorite of the fast kind, got through a pound of carrots in 34 seconds. Use the high speed for apples and roots and the low one for soft fruit; Breville puts blueberries, raspberries and seedless grapes on low.

The juice comes out a little foamy. The jug has a separator that holds the foam back while you pour, so the glass is mostly juice. If the motor strains on something hard, Breville says to stop after 10 seconds, so don't lean on the pusher.

The basket, the pusher and the pulp bin can go on the top rack. Wash the lid and the jug by hand.

What owners report

Of the owners who complained, seven said their pulp came out wet and the yield was low, mostly with greens; one watched most of a bunch of kale go straight into the pulp catcher. Four found broken bits of plastic, and three had leaks. Two owners have kept theirs going for years, one for six and one for ten.

Flaws but not dealbreakers
  • It can slide around the counter when it's working hard. A damp towel underneath helps.
  • The warranty is only one year.
Size

16.7 inches tall and 11 pounds, with a pulp bin that holds 3.4 liters.

850 watts3 in chute70 oz jugFroth separator
5
Magic Bullet Mini Juicer
Best small juicer

Magic Bullet Mini Juicer

About $50, and small enough to live in a cupboard between uses.

$49.99as of 7:27 AM ETCheck price on Amazon
Buy it if

You want a glass of apple-carrot juice now and then, and there's no room on the counter for anything big.

Skip it if

You're buying it for green juice. Spinach and romaine give you a few sips at best.

Read the full write-up

It juices straight into its own 16-ounce cup, and a twist-on lid turns that into something you can carry out the door. Taste of Home filled the cup with five carrots, two apples and a bit of ginger, which is about right for one person's morning.

Keep it to softer fruit and a few carrots at a time, since the manual warns that hard produce strains the motor. Everything but the base goes on the top rack, but expect to scrub the filter by hand. It's about as loud as a blender.

What owners report

Five owners ended up with one that didn't work. One arrived broken, one broke within a week, one quit after three uses over four months, one stopped after about a year and never restarted, and one simply stopped.

Flaws but not dealbreakers
  • The hopper is small. Two people means two rounds.
400 watts2 in chute16 oz cup with lid1-year warranty

Who this is for

Only ever want orange or grapefruit juice? Skip all five and buy a citrus press, a simpler machine for that one job. Juicing for a crowd, or bottling a week at a time? Look at the batch machines under What I'd skip.

How to choose

Start with what goes in the glass

Leafy greens and wheatgrass need a slow juicer. At America's Test Kitchen, slow juicers averaged 5.6 ounces of juice from a pound of kale, fast ones 2.8. Carrots, apples and oranges come out fine either way.

Count the chopping

The less you cut, the more often you'll juice. A wide chute or a hopper that feeds itself saves the most time. A small chute means a cutting board every morning.

Think about cleanup

A juicer you dread washing ends up in the garage. If hand washing a screen every day sounds like a chore, choose one with dishwasher-safe parts and rinse it the minute you're done, before the pulp dries.

What I'd skip

Canoly C16 Cold Press Juicer

Canoly sells it with a 6-inch chute and a 90-ounce hopper for about $200. Tom's Guide had a rough time with it: it ran hot, smelled of burning plastic after about ten minutes, jammed often, and took half an hour of scrubbing to clean. Canoly's own site shows no one-star or two-star reviews at all, which doesn't reassure me. I'd spend the money on the Omega.

Omega Wide Mouth Vertical Cold Press

Bon Appétit's budget pick at about $135. It's a decent machine, but there's very little out there on how it holds up, and for about $15 more the Ninja is a known quantity.

Nama J3 Compact Cold Press Juicer

The slimmer Nama, at about $499. If counter space is what's stopping you, look at it. Otherwise the extra $100 for the J2 is money well spent.

Kuvings AUTO10

A big hands-free machine for big batches, at about $730. Worth it if you're juicing for a crowd or for the week. For one or two people, the Nama does the same job for less.

Hurom H70

Compact and easy to clean, but at about $649 Bon Appétit found the juice thick, with sediment in the green juice and pips in the orange. Several cheaper juicers make cleaner juice.

Breville Juice Fountain Plus

The cheaper Breville at about $100. America's Test Kitchen recommended it with reservations and preferred the Juice Fountain Cold. I'd pay the extra $50.

How I picked

Slow or fast, matched to what you juiceChute and hopper sizeHand wash or dishwasherWarranty from 1 to 15 yearsOwner reports on jams and breakdownsIn stock on Amazon US

These five came out of 24 juicers, from a $40 mini to a $730 batch machine. Prices are Amazon's on October 9, 2026.

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Common questions

Can you put grapes, blueberries or prickly pears in a juicer?

Grapes and blueberries, yes. Use seedless grapes and the low speed on a fast juicer, as Breville suggests. For a big harvest of grapes or berries, a steam juicer on the stove is the easier tool. Prickly pears need their tiny spines burned or scrubbed off first, with gloves on, says the University of Arizona's extension service. Its method skips the juicer: blend the halved fruit and strain it through cheesecloth, about a dozen fruit for a cup of juice.

What fruits can't go in a juicer?

Pits, hard seeds and anything frozen. Pit cherries, peaches and mangoes before they go in, and peel oranges and lemons too, since most of these manuals ask for it.

What is the 80/20 rule for juicing?

It's a rule of thumb from juicer makers like Nama: about 80 percent vegetables and 20 percent fruit, so the glass isn't mostly sugar. I'd use a green apple or half a lemon to make kale and celery taste good.

How long does fresh juice keep?

Not long. Fresh juice that hasn't been pasteurized can carry bacteria, the FDA says, so keep it in the fridge, and it's best not served to young children, older people, pregnant women or anyone with a weak immune system. Breville says up to three days in its sealed jug. I'd make what you'll drink that day.

Is juicing as healthy as eating the fruit?

Not quite. Juice leaves the fiber behind in the pulp, and Harvard's nutrition department suggests keeping fruit juice to a small glass a day. A juicer is a good way to get more vegetables into your morning, not a replacement for eating them.

The verdict

The Nama J2, or the Ninja to start

Get the Nama J2 if juice is going to be a daily thing. If you're still finding out whether it sticks, start with the Ninja at about $150, and spend more later if it does.

Check price on Amazon$599.00 as of 7:27 AM ET

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