6 Best Juicers (2026): Fast Juicers and Slow Juicers

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, the Nama J2 Cold-Press Juicer ($599), 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. Innovative, easy-clean models like the Hurom H70 ($649) make this even easier. The latest designs can yield everything from smoothies, sorbets, and nut milks to mixers for cocktails and mocktails.

But the right machine is the difference between privilege and chore, and different types of juicers vary wildly in 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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Updated January 2026: We've streamlined our recommendations, removed discontinued models, updated links and prices, and added the Tribest Slowstar AI Juicer to our honorable mentions.

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 three 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 as other juicers come and go. This Nama remains the favorite. Note that Nama is now selling a larger-hopper model that comes with a sorbet strainer, for $150 more. You can also buy a large hopper or sorbet strainer to the original model.

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 hopper expansions 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.

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 contributing 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.

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 contributing 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.

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.

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 a 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, and 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.

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.

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.

Juicing is an easy way to add more fruit and vegetables to your diet, but it's not a magic fix. There area few easy ways to maximize the health benefits and minimize drawbacks like blood sugar spikes.

WIRED contributing reviewer Emily Peck talked to Kylie Jane, nutritionist and founder of UK wellness brand SANA Wellness (unrelated to Korean juicer brand Sana Products), for her advice on healthy juicing. These are the five ways to ensure that juicing is a healthful addition to your life and avoid sugar overload.

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.

Tribest Slowstar AI Vertical Hopper Juicer for $600: I'm still testing the full capabilities of this brand-new device from Tribest—perhaps the most interesting new juicer of the past couple years. While the rest of the kitchen went smart, most juicers have remained resolutely analog. But this Tribest is a touchscreen device with preset spin speeds for individual vegetables and an AI-controlled function that modulates spin speed depending on the resistance of each produce item. This seems to work, making this thing an absolute beast for pitching through tough lemon peels or ginger. So far, so good! But there are compromises, including a smaller hopper size and a lower continuous operating time than my top picks. And while its screen-free hopper and feeder design is easy to clean, it's still not as simple to clean and reassemble as the Hurom H70, and there are more parts to keep track of. And so upon initial testing, it remains just below the top-pick threshold, as I continue to suss out the device's performance.

Kuvings AUTO10 Juicer for $730: The Kuvings AUTO10 is the original big-big-big juicer, a 3-liter hopper meant for large batches without ever having to load an extra carrot or an extra batch of spinach. The extra liter of space over the J2 will matter to some power users. The stainless steel blade and added strainers on the AUTO10 Plus upgrade are also nice touches. But this size comes at the expense of bulk and height—making this a difficult fit for most kitchen counters. While this Kuvings is a slightly higher-watt machine than the Nama J2, the versatility of the J2's multiple hoppers and accessories, and its US-based customer service, gives the Nama a slight edge. But if you know you're a big-batch juicer, you will not go wrong with this Kuvings.

Omega Juicers VSJ843RR for $399: WIRED contributing reviewer Emily Peck 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.

Sana 707 Cold Press Juicer for $200: This is a classic horizontal juicer, the style in vogue for much of the previous century. It offers a lot of versatility, with attachments for anything from coffee to pasta. And it's economical, as compared to hopper-style juicers. But as with other skinny-mouth feeders, you'll find yourself hand-feeding carrots and celery and little apple wedges to make a juice batch.

Omega Time-Saving Batch Juicer for $226: WIRED had previously recommended this set-and-forget model from Omega as a budget slow juicer, despite lower performance than top picks that cost twice as much. But we've put it back on the testing bench after seeing some consumer feedback about durability, and for now we're more likely to recommend fast-spinning centrifugal juicers as a budget option.

Omega Juicers Wide Mouth Cold Press Juicer JC4000 for $135: 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 assemble 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.

Gone but not forgotten: The Sana 868 wide-mouth vertical juicer ($300) is still gettable on Amazon, but it’s listed as discontinued on Sana's site. The 868's feeder-tube style is not in vogue at the moment, but the utility for this device comes from the low cost and the coarser screens that allow this device to be used for both juicers and smoothies. This said, if you mostly make smoothies in the morning, a blender is a whole lot easier to clean.

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