To juice or not? Is a juicer worth it/easy to clean?

papoosue

Hi folks. My daughter (12) has a juicer at the top of her Christmas list - she has decided it's the answer to 'getting healthy' (even though she is perfectly healthy already lol). Anyway, does anyone have any recommendations for a juicer that will do fruit and veg - preferably whole fruits like apples etc - and is above all not massively expensive? I do have that thought that it will be a novelty and end up at the back of a cupboard...

Any advice at all would be very much appreciated.

Linda32

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is what your looking for, but I make smoothies using both my blender on my food mixer or my stick blender.

You don't get juice as such, as in freshly squeezed but you get a smoothie.

Its never anything fantastic, I chop up whatever fruit I have, (apples included), add yogurt, fruit juice and blitz.

As you said, a juicer is likely to end up at the back of your cupboard.

HTH

Fluffysheep38

I had a juicer once, and you wouldn't believe the amount of washing up it created... its gone now lol!

Lou76

Fluffysheep38 wrote: »

I had a juicer once, and you wouldn't believe the amount of washing up it created... its gone now lol!

Same here, it wasn't worth the effort to use/clean, for the sake of a dribble of juice per bag of fruit. It gave me great pleasure to bin it. :T

I should've know there was a catch when my Auntie gave me it in the first place, she never gives anything away.

downshifted

Mine is at the back of the cupboard..........and juice is not as healthy as eating the whole fruit - if you eat the whole fruit you get more fibre and the fruit sugar does not hit your bloodstream as quickly. I'm pre- diabetic and can't have juice without my glucose levels rocketing.

Pink.

Hi papoosue,

I have thought about a juicer, but from what I've seen they really are a pain to wash up so I think I'll just stay with my stick blender which I use for making fruit smoothies.

There is some advice on these threads that may help:

To juice or not? Is a juicer worth it/easy to clean?

Saving money on smoothies - best juicer?

Once you've had some Old Style input I'll move your thread over to the I wanna board.

Pink

BOBS

Sorry - mine at back of cupboard too - large amount of fruit needed for just one glass and all the roughage then has to be cleaned from machine which is time consuming and I feel wasteful of good fruit. I would go with smoothie maker - yoghurt/strawberries etc - healthier and cheaper IMO

prosaver

you need about 10 oranges for a small glass of juices it not worth it...
I suppose after a few months it could keep your other kitchen appliance company in the back of the cupbord...like the george forman gill... bread maker ....sandwich toaster.....coffee maker ...blah... blah

emiff6

downshifted wrote: »

Mine is at the back of the cupboard..........and juice is not as healthy as eating the whole fruit - if you eat the whole fruit you get more fibre and the fruit sugar does not hit your bloodstream as quickly... QUOTE]

I totally agree with you, downshifted :A - whole fruit and veg is more filling too, and a lot of the minerals are in the skin and fibre parts. A bowl of mixed grated fruit & veg (e.g. carrots, parsnips, cabbage, apples, pears etc) with a few nuts and sultanas tossed in, always goes down well as a snack in our house.

Seakay

I loved having a juicer - both I have had were the relatively cheap centrifugal type for fruit and veg but not leaves and wheatgrass etc.
Don't use this type for citrus fruits - you never get all the juice out and it's a waste.
They work best for crisp/hard fruit and veg
The only reason that I don't have one at the moment is that the motor burnt out on the most recent Lidl one, but then I found that the model had been withdrawn so they refunded my money.
My previous one was also from Lidl and lasted 15 years until I dropped it and broke the casing.
I have used carrot pulp from the juicer to make a vegetarian loaf, just to avoid waste.
I'm currently looking out for one for one and think that the Kenwood 570 looks good.