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Best Juicers

7/18/2020

 
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A juicer, also known as a juice extractor, is a tool used to extract juice from fruits, herbs, leafy greens and other types of vegetables in a process called juicing.  It crushes, grinds, and/or squeezes the juice out of the pulp.  Some types of juicers can also function as a food processor.  Most of the twin gear and horizontal masticating juicers have attachments for crushing herbs and spices, extruding pasta, noodles or bread sticks, making baby food and nut butter, grinding coffee, making nut milk, etc.

Types of Juicers

Centrifugal juicers
A centrifugal juicer cuts up the fruit or vegetable with a flat cutting blade.[citation needed] It then spins the produce at a high speed to separate the juice from the pulp.

Masticating juicers
A masticating juicer known as cold press juicer or slow juicer uses a single auger to compact and crush produce into smaller sections before squeezing out its juice along a static screen while the pulp is expelled through a separate outlet.  

Reamers/Squeezer
A squeezer is used to separate citrus juice from its pulp such as grapefruits, lemons, limes, and oranges by pressing or grinding a halved citrus along a juicer's ridged conical center and discarding the rind. Some are stationary and require a user to press and turn the fruit, while others are electrical, automatically turning the ridged center when fruit is pressed upon.

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