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Juicer vs. Blender: What’s the Difference?

The biggest difference between a juicer and a blender is how they process fruits and vegetables. Juicers separate the pulp, skin and other parts from fruits and veggies, leaving behind just the thin liquid of your produce. Blenders process and blend together all ingredients, including their pulp for thicker drinks like smoothies.

Both are great for a variety of reasons. They’ll each make it easier to introduce more fruits and vegetables into your diet, while blenders are versatile kitchen tools that let you experiment with a variety of ingredients for all sorts of recipes beyond juice.

What Is a Blender?

As a versatile and valuable tool in any kitchen, a blender will blend, crush ice and emulsify ingredients for countless different recipes. There are several different types of blenders available for purchase which usually consist of a blending jar with shaft-driven blades and a base with a motor.

What Is a JUICER?

A juicer, otherwise known as a juice extractor, is a small appliance that will separate the juice from the rest of the fruit or vegetables, leaving behind the pulp, seeds and skin to be discarded. Juicers work one of two ways:

What Is the Difference Between a Blender and a Juicer?

A juicer will extract the juice from fruits and vegetables, separating them from the pulp by crushing, grinding or squeezing the liquid out, leaving behind just the thin juice without any of the fiber. Blenders don’t separate your ingredients, instead they blend them together for a thicker consistency. 

Reference the chart below for a quick overview of features that you would typically find in blenders and juicers. Note: This chart is just a reference, and does not apply to every model on the market.

Benefits of Using a BlendeR

Benefits of Using a Juicer

Can You Use a Blender as a Juicer?

As versatile as a blender can be, they do not have the same functionality as a juicer. If you’re looking for that thin consistency, a blender won’t be able to provide it on its own. With a few extra steps, you can still enjoy a good alternative by cutting up your fruit and removing seeds, blending thoroughly and then straining through cheesecloth or a fine sieve to remove the pulp.

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View the full recipe for this Carrot Ginger Elixir for step-by-step instructions.

Types of Blenders for your countertop

From simple blenders for everyday use to high-powered blenders that can crush and transform hard ingredients with ease, there are many different models to choose from.

STANDARD BLENDERS

If you're just starting to experiment with blender techniques, you may not need a high-powered blender right away. A standard blender will  still have a number of speeds that will allow you to blend, puree and liquify a range of ingredients.  

 

With the K150 3 Speed Ice Crushing Blender from KitchenAid, you’ll be able to crush ice in under 10 seconds1 for delicious smoothies. The three different speeds also make it easy to blend lots of ingredients, and the Soft Start® Feature will start the motor slowly so that all ingredients are pulled down to the blade and ensure complete blending.

 

1. Half tray of ice

HIGH-POWERED BLENDERS

If you’re looking to do a little more with your blender, like create recipes with tough ingredients, then a high-powered blender has a lot to offer. They usually have powerful motors that can crush and blend to a silky smooth consistency a number of challenging ingredients (think nuts, kale and seeds).

 

The High Performance Series Blender from KitchenAid will offer you plenty of power and speed. With nine different speed settings and tamper to push down ingredients, you’ll get an ultra-smooth consistency to your recipes, even those with tougher ingredients.

VARIABLE SPEED BLENDERS

While most conventional blenders have 2-3 set speeds, variable speed blenders can have over 10 speeds and the ability to adjust continuously between them. This allows you to fine-tune your blending speed for a number of recipes and blending techniques.

 

The KitchenAid® K400 Variable Speed Blender, for example, is able to blend ingredients to various textures, and it also features three different recipe programs–Ice Crush, Icy Drink and Smoothie. The Intelli-Speed® Motor Control senses the ingredients in the jar to keep the optimal speed to thoroughly blend all your ingredients.

SPECIALTY BLENDERS

These blenders are the ones you reach for when you’re ready to explore the pinnacle of blender techniques. They have heavy duty motors capable of very high speeds for effortless blending in larger quantities. Usually, you’ll find several speed settings and advanced features to help create meals from start to finish.  

 

You’ll get amazing results with the KitchenAid® Pro Line Series with Thermal Jar that comes with 11 speed settings, three different recipe programs and Intelli-Speed® Motor Control; this powerful appliance can handle just about any recipe you’re ready to take on. The thermal control jar lets you heat and blend soups in under five minutes, all while the jar stays cool to the touch. 

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If you’re curious about juicing and you have a KitchenAid® stand mixer, you can also purchase additional attachments that have similar functions as some juicers. 

JUICER AND SAUCE ATTACHMENT

Functioning as a masticating juicer, this Juicer and Sauce Attachment, available from our selection of certified refurbished products, connects to your stand mixer first slices and then processes all kinds of leafy greens, soft and sturdier fruits and vegetables. With three different screens, you can decide how little or how much pulp you want in your juices, jams and sauces.

CITRUS JUICER ATTACHMENT

The KitchenAid® Citrus Juicer Attachment lets you enjoy freshly-squeezed juice from oranges, grapefruits, limes and lemons, and the strainer catches pulp and seeds. Learn more about how to use the KitchenAid® Citrus Juicer Attachment.

How to Attach Your KitchenAid

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The versatility of the KitchenAid® stand mixers means that connecting your juicer attachments is easy.

  1. Unplug your stand mixer.
  2. Remove the hub cover and insert the attachment shaft into the universal power hub and rotate until it attaches correctly.
  3. Rotate the thumb screw clockwise to tighten the attachment until completely secure.
  4. Place your desired bowl underneath the attachment.
  5. Check the instructions to your specific attachment for additional information and recommended speeds.

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Pros & Cons of Blending and Juicing

Does getting 10 servings a day of fruits and vegetables sound like a tall order? For many of us, it can be. In fact, most Americans consume fewer than three servings a day. If you’re not getting that magic 10, there are a few things you can do. One, of course, is to make an effort to add portions of fruits and vegetables to your diet. You can substitute fresh fruit for sugary or salty baked snacks, for example, and prioritize potatoes and green beans over steak and waffles on your dinner plate. But even with the best of intentions, it can be a challenge to consume all those servings of fruits and veggies day in and day out.

That’s where juicing and blending can ride to the rescue. Drinking is often quicker, easier, and more convenient than eating. Putting your produce through a juicer or blender can be an effective way of getting more of those daily servings into your body, where they can protect you from disease and assist you in achieving vibrant health.

If you’re a picky eater who grew up on animal-derived and highly processed foods, juicing and blending can be great ways of getting the benefits of plant foods without having to really engage with them in terms of taste or texture. A brand new study found that even preschoolers will consume dark green leafy vegetables if they’re blended into green smoothies where the taste of the greens is disguised by sweet fruit. And juicing, in particular, can be a nutrient concentrator: the vitamin and mineral content of one cup of carrot juice is almost equivalent to that of five cups of chopped carrots. (That’s a lot of carrot munching!)

Juicing and blending are obviously efficient ways of converting mounds of plant food into easy-to-consume portions. But when it comes to blenders vs juicers, what are the pros and cons of each? Is juicing or blending good for you? And are there downsides to all that processing?

Benefits of Blending vs Juicing

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Believe it or not, there are actually some documented health benefits to both blending and juicing.

Disease Fighting Benefits

For one thing, both blenders and juicers increase the bioavailability of phytochemicals from many raw plant foods by reducing the size of the food particles and increasing their surface area. One study of Korean kernel fruit (apples, pears, persimmons, and mandarins) found that blending increased their antioxidant properties while juicing increased vitamin C bioavailability. Of course, the best way to reduce the size of the food that makes it into your stomach is to eat slowly and chew thoroughly. But for many of us, that’s a challenging (and time-consuming) habit to adopt.

However, the more phytochemicals we eat, the lower our disease risk, especially for conditions like heart disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

Because blending and juicing typically use raw produce, they can provide significantly more phytochemicals that usually degrade when cooked. For example, isothiocyanates are phytochemicals found in cruciferous veggies that have powerful anticancer effects. We absorb more isothiocyanates from raw than cooked veggies, so we can get a max dose by blending or juicing our cabbage, cauliflower, watercress, and turnips rather than cooking them.

Heart Health Benefits

There’s good evidence that drinking fruit and vegetable juices can also specifically protect against heart disease, primarily through lowering blood pressure and improving the blood lipid profile (basically, lowering LDL cholesterol and triglycerides).

Gut Health Benefits

Juicing may also benefit the gut microbiome. In 2017, a team at the UCLA medical school took 20 healthy adult volunteers and gave them nothing but vegetable and fruit juice for three days, after which they followed their regular diets for two weeks. At the end of the study, there was a significant increase in the populations of “good” gut bacteria, including the ones associated with weight loss, increased vasodilation (opening of blood vessels) through nitric oxide production, and reduced free radical production from blood lipids. A triple win, from just three days of juicing!

Anti-Inflammatory Benefits

There’s some evidence that plant-rich smoothies may help reduce inflammation associated with autoimmune diseases. One pilot study that’s currently underway is including a morning smoothie as part of a protocol to decrease pain and joint swelling in people with rheumatoid arthritis.

Pros & Cons of Blenders & Smoothies

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So far we haven’t really differentiated between blenders vs juicers and blending vs juicing. In fact, they’re both quite different. Let’s look at the pluses and minuses of blenders and blending first.

Pros of Blending

Both juicing and blending take a food and pulverize it. Juicers separate the juice from the pulp, so the pulp can be discarded. But blenders make use of everything. And that can be a good thing because the main component of the pulp that juicers discard is fiber. Blended fruits and vegetables retain all their fiber, a key nutrient for healthy digestion and chronic disease prevention. Fiber is precious, especially considering that fewer than 5% of all Americans consume the recommended daily amounts of fiber.

The pulp that juicers waste and blenders preserve also provides an abundance of flavonoids, which are a potent class of phytonutrients. One study compared the phytonutrient content of blended vs juiced grapefruit and found that blended grapefruit, with both juice and pulp, contained seven times the amount of naringin, a potent flavonoid that fights cancer and inflammation, and may be effective in treating type 2 diabetes and other metabolic diseases.

If you’re watching your weight, smoothies are more filling than juices, thanks to all those fibrous parts of the fruits and vegetables that trigger those “that’s enough, thank you” signals from the stretch receptors in your stomach. One way to make smoothies more satiating is to add some form of healthy fat, like avocado, seeds, or nuts. The fat will slow down the absorption of the sugars in the fresh fruit, so you can stay full longer, and not suffer from a sugar spike and subsequent crash.

And maybe it shouldn’t matter as much as it does, but blenders are definitely easier to clean than juicers. They don’t have lots of parts to disassemble, scrub, dry, and reassemble. And if you’ve ever watched a Vitamix demo at Costco, you know about the trick where you fill the dirty blender container with soapy water, snap on the lid (don’t forget the lid, unless you like soap suds on your ceiling!), and run the blender for 15 seconds to remove all food particles and stains.

Cons of Blending

While they aren’t prone to spiking your blood sugar nearly as much as juices, sweet smoothies can still raise blood glucose levels and contribute to metabolic syndrome. Since smoothies are liquid meals, we can consume them too quickly, and therefore take in excess calories before we’re aware of being full.

Additionally, humans evolved to chew our food well and slowly. The fruits, roots, and leaves our ancestors ate were far more fibrous than the gentle peaches, plums, and apples that we’re all used to. Smoothies reduce the need for chewing even further, which can mean weaker masseter muscles and underdeveloped oral cavities, especially in babies and small children. Nitric oxide, the vasodilator chemical that you get from leafy greens, gets metabolized by enzymes and bacteria in your saliva. Skip the chewing, and you reduce your intake of this wonderful nutrient.

If you make your own smoothies, you can maintain complete control over the quality of ingredients they’re made of. But that’s not true if you drink commercially blended smoothies from restaurants, airport kiosks, or supermarket beverage cases. Those products, designed to appeal to consumer taste buds, may contain unwanted ingredients like refined sugar, high fructose corn syrup, and natural and artificial flavorings or colorings. And they rarely if ever use organically grown fruits or vegetables.

Blender Types & Recommendations

Are you up for blending? If so, you’ll need — drum roll, please — a blender. There are several different styles that will fit different needs and budgets.

Stick Blenders

The least expensive, smallest, and least powerful is the immersion or “stick” blender. These blenders are best for sauces and dips, and for pureeing hot ingredients like soups, that you don’t want to blend in a container while boiling hot. If you will be using it for hot items, make sure the parts that contact the food are metal and not plastic to avoid leaching toxins into your meals. One well-reviewed model is the KitchenAid 2-Speed Hand Blender.

Single-Serving Blenders

Slightly bigger and more powerful, there’s the single-serving or personal blender. This style typically comes with a container that you can drink from since the blade is housed in the base. These also come with lids, so you can take your smoothie on the go, as well as other accessories like whisks and extra chopping blades for onions and other veggies. The Hamilton Beach Personal Blender is an inexpensive model with strongly positive reviews.

Kitchen Blenders

Next in the pecking (or blending) order is the regular old kitchen or full-size blender — the one you probably picture when you think “blender.” These babies sit on the countertop and can handle most blending tasks. One of my favorite things about them is the creative labels for the various settings: blend, grind, pulverize, liquify, crush, beam me up (just kidding about that last one). As longtime household staples, they vary widely in power, materials, and quality of the build. Make sure you get one whose motor can handle whatever you plan to throw at it. If your smoothies will involve ice or frozen fruit, look for a higher wattage on the motor, and check online reviews for durability.

Also, I highly recommend choosing a model with a glass, not plastic, container. The Oster Reverse Crush checks all the boxes and even has the ability to send its 6-point blade in reverse to clear up jams and optimize your blending experience (hey, maybe I’ve missed my calling as a marketer for blenders).

Specialty Blenders

Finally, the sovereign of the blender world is the specialty or combo blender. These workhorses (is there a more vegan word for that?) can easily blend frozen stuff. One brand even advertised its prowess by destroying iPhones, iPads, and camcorders in its whirring blades. (As fun as that sounds, I don’t recommend it.) One top-of-the-line specialty blender is the ever-popular Vitamix. The latest models feature smart technology, wider and shorter containers (so they finally fit under kitchen counters), and quieter motors. While you might get sticker shock if you’re used to blenders in the $30-$100 dollar range, Vitamix blenders are probably the best overall value when you factor in the lifetime cost of ownership.

A more recent entrant to the high-end, specialty blender market is Ninja, whose models feature cool “blade towers” and presets for smoothies, frozen drinks (umbrellas optional), and even mixing dough.

Pros & Cons of Juicers & Juice

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Juicing is a process that extracts water and nutrients from produce while discarding most of the fiber. As with blending, there are pros and cons to this process.

Pros of Juicing

Juicing concentrates the nutrients, as the vast majority of the vitamins and minerals in fruit are typically in the juice — not the pulp and fibrous material. As a result, juicing can increase the quantity and bioavailability of antioxidants like vitamin C for better absorption. Also, it’s easier for people with impaired digestion to assimilate nutrients in juices than in whole fruit or blended smoothies.

Because fiber binds to the sugars in fruits and vegetables and slows down their digestion, juicing can provide a quicker dose of energy. While most of us don’t need a sugar rush, athletes who will be metabolizing lots of calories in a short time can benefit from drinking juice right before an event. Beet and cherry juices, in particular, have been investigated as performance enhancers in athletes.

Beet juice appears to aid the long-distance runner. In one study, elite runners in their 20s were instructed to run to exhaustion on a treadmill, given a red juice supplement for 15 days, and then asked to repeat the treadmill test. Those given beet juice achieved “substantial improvements in the time to exhaustion” compared to those drinking the placebo. Aside from the compelling results, I want to know how you create placebo beet juice with no beets in it!

Not to be outdone by beets, tart cherries also improved endurance in athletes, sometimes when given as little as an hour and a half before an event. I hope the World Anti-Doping Agency keeps beets and cherries off its banned substances list!

Cons of Juicing

Juicing isn’t all moonlight and roses, however. As we saw, juicing removes most of the fiber, which means rapid absorption of sugar into the bloodstream. As a result, you may experience sugar spikes, which can tax the insulin system, followed by sugar crashes, which can include symptoms as varied as fatigue, irritability, lightheadedness, dizziness, and anxiety, among many others.

Juice also may not be as satiating as solid food or blended food, which can lead you to consume more than you would otherwise. That can be a problem, especially with juices that are high in sugars, as they can pack a lot of calories into a small (and rapidly consumed) volume.

Consider apple juice: you can drink a cup in a few seconds. While it would take you a lot longer to consume the equivalent number of medium-sized apples (three, as it turns out). And you’d probably get full somewhere on your second apple. While a cup of juice won’t even tickle your “full-o-meter.”

Also, there’s a big difference between commercial juices and fresh, raw juice. Commercial juices, like commercial smoothies, may contain unhealthy ingredients. Commercial fruit juice, in particular, turns into little more than junk food when it’s pasteurized and filtered. Vegetable juice (with the arguable exception of carrot juice, which is actually still pretty sweet, with nine grams of sugar per cup) doesn’t suffer the same fate and can be a potent way to absorb nutrients swiftly.

Juicing also wastes a lot of valuable nutrition. The pulp that gets thrown away when you clean your juicer includes fiber and other nutrients that bind to it.

And finally, juicers are often messy and take a fair amount of time and effort to clean thoroughly, which may mean they get used less in the long run.

Juicer Types & Recommendations

Just as with blenders, there are various kinds of juicers. The three types competing for your dollars and counter space are auger/low-speed, centrifugal, and masticating juicers.

Auger Juicers

The auger/low-speed models spin, as you might have guessed from the description, juice slowly. This keeps the heat low, which means your juice will be truly raw. They have a pretty small footprint on your counter and eject their pulp to the side. Many models include a tap, so you can keep the juice in the juicer until you’re ready to drink. Omega makes a version of this type of juicer that gets excellent reviews.

Centrifugal Juicers

More common, and less expensive, are the centrifugal juicers, which essentially extract juice with a combination of grating and rotating really fast. The pulp goes down, while the lighter liquid gets spun out like a kid on a Gravitron carnival ride. Because of the quick processing time, these are the least efficient at getting the maximum nutrition from your produce. A quality model is the Omega J4000 High-Speed Pulp Ejection Juicer.

Masticating Juicers

Next, there are the masticating juicers, which feature a horizontal auger that crushes and grinds the produce under great pressure, extracting perhaps the maximum nutrition of any of the types. The Omega Juicer NC900HDC is pricey, but tends to last, and includes a 15-year warranty. The Jocuu Masticating Juicer offers a more budget-friendly option.

Manual Juicers

Finally, you can also find manual juicers specifically for citrus fruits. One example is the Gourmia Citrus Juicer, which uses leverage to add force to your natural strength. The company claims that its juicer can handle pomegranates as well as oranges, lemons, and grapefruits.

Juicer and Smoothie Recipes

Are you a juice-lover or a smoothie pro? And, do you prefer a little sweet or mostly savory? Whichever your preference, you should find a recipe that fits your style below. If you have a juicer, hooray! It’s time to put it to use with the Green Goodness Smoothie and Carrot Beet Ginger Juice. Don’t have a juicer? No problem! Instructions for juicing with just a blender and nut-milk bag or tea towel are provided.

Smoothie folks, choose from the Where to Get Your Protein Blue Smoothie, the energizing Pineapple Matcha Smoothie, or for savory smoothie lovers — the Salad Smoothie! Let us know your favorite juice and smoothie blends below.

1. Where to Get Your Protein Purple Smoothie

Worried about meeting protein needs on a plant-based diet? It’s actually pretty simple to get plenty of protein, especially when you’re eating whole plant-based foods like hemp, almond butter, and flax meal. Add some blueberries for a pretty purple hue, and you’re on your way to health through a tasty smoothie!

2. Pineapple Matcha Smoothie

Looking for a morning boost? Pineapple Matcha Rise ‘N Shine Smoothie is the perfect way to start the day with its refreshing and energizing ingredients. From the iron-rich spinach to the antioxidant-filled pineapple to the theanine-packed green tea, this smoothie will give you sustainable nutrients for lasting energy and optimal health.

3. Salad Smoothie

Move over fruit-smoothie lovers, it’s time for us salad-smoothie lovers to shine! Using avocado as the creamy base, cucumber for deep hydration, and a blend of lime, mango, and shallots for a pop of flavors you’re going to love. Add less water to make a smoothie bowl (see Chef’s Notes) or more water to make it a soothing beverage.

4. Beet Carrot Turmeric Juice

This juice is almost too pretty to drink with its vibrant magenta color from the beets. Betalains, the compounds that give beets their color, have been shown to provide antioxidant and anti-inflammatory support. It also gives everything it touches color so be warned — beets and turmeric both stain! Carrots are chock-full of carotenoids and turmeric is packed with curcumin. Both of these compounds help fight inflammation. See Chef’s Notes to learn how to best absorb the nutrients from this naturally sweet juice.

5. Green Goodness Juice

If you want a juice that is refreshing and nourishing to supplement your high-fiber diet, then look no further than this Green Goodness Juice. Made with kale, celery, lemon, ginger, and cilantro (or parsley if you’re in the anti-cilantro camp), this juice is like a ray of sunshine for your body. It’ll help you shine your brightest!

Blenders vs Juicers — Now You Know

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Whole plant foods are wonderful. We could all stand to eat more fresh fruits and vegetables. And blending and juicing them can help you get more of them. While you do miss out on the benefits that come from chewing —  and if you’re juicing, you also miss out on the fiber — both blending and juicing provide easy ways to get valuable nutrition, especially antioxidants. And they can also be fun and flavorful ways to change up what you’re eating. Each has advantages and drawbacks, but whether you’re Team Blender or Team Juicer, both can play a part in contributing to a healthy, convenient, and delicious life.

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Blender or juicer: which is better? Comparison

To understand how these two kitchen appliances differ, you should study what they are.

Blender

There are two types of this device: submersible and stationary.

Submersible looks like a handle with control buttons, on which a nozzle with knives is put on. The principle of its operation is based on the fact that it is immersed in a container with products and mixes them, and also grinds them. Depending on the power, it can work with both fairly soft products and some hard ones. For example, a model with a power of more than 700 W can grind meat or crush ice. The purpose of such a device: the preparation of puree soups and sauces, mixing various products. Various attachments can be sold with the blender itself: a glass for chopping, a glass with nozzles for different types of cuts, a nozzle for making puree. Accordingly, the number of functions in such models increases.

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Stationary looks like a stand with control buttons. A bowl with knives is placed on top of it. Products are placed in the bowl and they are mixed. Such a blender is more convenient because you do not need to hold it in your hand, that is, it does not get tired, but they also take up more space. They appeared earlier than submersibles and their main function and then and now remains the production of cocktails.

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Juicer

They differ in their design and purpose.

There are different types of juicers: for citrus fruits, auger and net (centrifuge principle).

The first type, as the name implies, is intended only for pressing citrus products. They are low power, but they do not need a lot of power.

Auger works on the principle that the product from which the juice is squeezed is placed under the press. Such juicers can squeeze the maximum juice out of the product, so they are the most efficient.

Grid or centrifugal juicer. These are the most common models, the product is lowered through a special hole into a container with rotating knives, the walls of this container are mesh. The product literally rubs through the mesh. Juice enters the glass, and the cake leans back into a special container. The more powerful such a juicer, the more juice it can squeeze out. Juice can be squeezed from both soft and hard fruits and vegetables.

Regardless of the type of juicer, their main and only task is to extract juice.

Differences between a juicer and a blender

Now, having understood what a juicer and a blender are, let's look at their differences.

Both devices are arranged to some extent in the same way. This is the body inside, which the motor and it sets in motion is already a mechanism that does the main work. The juicer has a mesh with knives, and the juicer has knives for cutting or mixing.

The power of both devices is almost the same from 350 W to 800 W (blender) and 1000 W (juicer), but in a blender the power affects the speed of obtaining the desired consistency, and in a juicer it affects the amount of juice squeezed out.

In addition, the main difference between a blender and a juicer is their function. The main task of the blender is to mix, the juicer is to squeeze the juice. A blender, like a juicer, can make juice, but the pulp will float in it and the resulting product will be more like a puree in its consistency. The juice extractor squeezes out pure juice without impurity.

In the juicer, the pulp is thrown into a special container, while in the blender it will remain in the same container as the juice.

Another difference is the running time, most juicers have a maximum run time of 5 minutes and only some expensive models have 15 minutes. The blender, as a rule, has no restrictions on the operating time. That is, they can work until the desired consistency of the products is obtained.

If you need to squeeze the juice from a large number of products, for example, a crop from a home garden, then only a juicer can handle it. But the blender is perfect for making fruit puree and cocktails.

If the juice is pressed from hard vegetables and fruits, then the blender will not perform this task at all. In a blender, you can only chop the product, or if you chop it for a long time, you will get porridge, but not juice

Therefore, if you have a choice, what to buy? It follows, to understand why. Blender does more things. As mentioned above, an expensive blender with many attachments can replace even a simple food processor in the kitchen. It can mix, chop, puree, crush ice, mince, dice, slice and more. The juicer will squeeze out the juice with high quality. If the juicer is an auger, then it can even handle products that a centrifuge juicer cannot, such as hard vegetables or even roots.

The conclusion is that both instruments are good, they just do different things. Therefore, it is better to have both in the kitchen.

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One of the most popular and big discussions is the topic of juicers and blenders, and to be more precise, which is cooler - squeezing juice with a juicer or mixing various ingredients with a blender? Juicer aficionados claim that juices is the fastest and most effective way to get all the nutrients your body needs . At the same time, blender proponents believe that smoothies and drinks made by the blending process provide the body with the necessary amount of fibers, which are removed when the products are squeezed. So who is right?

The truth is that both are necessary for our body in order to fully meet the needs of nutrients and beneficial trace elements. Let's look at what each process is fraught with, and what are the pros and cons of each.

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Juicing is a process that occurs with fruits and vegetables, in which the juice is separated from the fiber, which in turn turns into a practically dry cake and is not consumed. Juicers come in different shapes and specifications, but by and large they are divided into two groups: low-speed and high-speed.

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Low speed juicers

Also called auger or cold press juicers. Such juicers work by rotating the auger. There can be one or two screws, and they can be located both vertically and horizontally. The main advantages of such models are that the juice is of higher quality, the amount of juice has a higher yield, they are easier to clean, and in addition to fruits and vegetables, they can squeeze greens, berries and root crops. The disadvantage is higher prices and more time spent on juicing.

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High Speed ​​Juicers

Such juicers are also called centrifugal. These are classic, cheaper devices that have been and are widely available for a long time. The work of these juicers is based on fast-rotating blades that cut through the fibers of the products to obtain juice, which is strained with a sieve. Main advantages: low prices and very fast juicing process. Disadvantages: The juice foams and has a low nutritional yield (this is due to the oxidation process during preparation). In addition, often such juicers are difficult to clean.

Mixing

Unlike the pressing process, mixing uses the entire fruit or vegetable, including the fibers. Most often, blenders are used to make smoothies, which ideally contain fruits or vegetables, as well as enough liquid, in a 3:1 ratio, to make it smoother and more tender.

Blender prices vary widely. You can buy both a budget option and a fairly expensive one. For a higher price, you get a really high-quality device, with a reliable and solid build, and higher power and performance. The latter indicator does not always depend on the number of watts. Here, the design of the bowl and the type of knives used have a greater influence. In addition, some models are equipped with a special pusher cover, which is very convenient and practical.

Comparing both processes

The main problem with push-ups is that juice does not have enough fiber , although they do contain soluble fibers that help with digestion. Soluble fibers include pectin, which forms a kind of gel in the digestive tract. Another drawback is the high sugar content of the juice, but this is easily fixed by adding more greens that minimize the amount of sugar.

The main mixing problem is that smoothies are more difficult to consume as they are thicker and contain fiber. For those who want to lose weight, smoothies are exactly what you need. The second drawback is that due to high speeds (about 20,000 rpm on average), heating and oxidation processes occur, destroying a large amount of phytonutrients. The last question is almost closed as the world saw the innovative vacuum technology used in blenders, the Vidia blender is a great example of this. The manufacturer promises to significantly reduce oxidation during smoothie preparation.

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So which is better?

As you can see, both processes have their pros and cons.

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