Juicers allow you to make your own fresh juice at home, and can often break down whole fruits and vegetables including the peel, cores and pips. While they're an initial investment, if you love a daily juice you'll likely save money in the long term over buying expensive juices on the go, and they're a great way to help you reach your five-a-day or 30 plant foods a week target. Juicers will also save you time making cocktails or juicing citrus fruit for bakes, marinades and dressings.

Juicers differ from blenders in that they compress the ingredients to extract the juice rather than pulverising them and mixing together. This means that juicing often creates a byproduct in the form of pulp or fibres. There are lots of ways you can use these up to reduce waste, including using them in vegetable stock or to make homemade energy bites. If you don't end up using the pulp, make sure you put it in your food waste bin or add to home compost.

Read on for our pick of the best juicers including citrus juicers, centrifugal juicers and masticating juicers.

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Best juicers UK at a glance

  • Best citrus press: Sage the Citrus Press, £139.95
  • Best everyday citrus juicer: Gastroback Citrus Juicer Advanced Pro S, £119.99
  • Best juicer for beginners: Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer, £349
  • Best aesthetically pleasing citrus press: Smeg Citrus Juicer, £149.95
  • Best blowout juicer: Sage the Nutri Juicer Cold Plus, £199.95
  • Best centrifugal juicer: Nutribullet Juicer Pro, £109.99
  • Best budget juicer: Nutribullet Juicer, £99.99

Best juicer to buy UK 2024

Sage the Citrus Press

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Best citrus press

Star rating: 4.5/5

As we've come to expect from Sage, this citrus juicer looks beautiful and performs brilliantly. It has a powerful motor and a one-size-fits-all juicing cone, which makes it easy to use, quick and effective.

There's an ergonomic handle mounted to a power-assisted arm, which requires only the smallest amount of pressure to compress the fruit. On test we like that you can easily switch between citrus fruits without needing to change the cone, meaning we could add some lemon to our orange juice. This juicer is certainly an investment, but if you're looking to regularly make citrus juice it's a brilliant option.

Gastroback Citrus Juicer Advanced Pro S

Gastroback Citrus Juicer Advanced Pro S

Best everyday citrus juicer

Star rating: 4.5/5

Another citrus press model, this product from Gastroback is simple to use, hardwearing and efficient. Although it comes with a relatively hefty price tag (slightly cheaper than the Smeg and Sage models), it's still a great option if you want a citrus juicer that's going to stand the test of time.

On test we found it easy to use. The parts all fitted together easily and, once assembled, all you need to do is place your sliced fruit over the cone, pull down the ergonomic lever and wait for the juice to trickle out. There are also two sieves so you can choose juice with or without pulp. What's more, all the attachments are dishwasher-safe, making clean-up a lot easier.

Kuvings Whole Slow Juicer

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Best juicer for beginners

Star rating: 4.5/5

If you're new to juicing and want a comprehensive model from a reputable brand, this could be the one for you. This masticating juicer might be pricey but on test we found it easy to assemble, and were impressed with how it tackled even the toughest of leafy greens, producing a vibrant green juice. A comprehensive selection of cleaning accessories are included, though we were a little disappointed that they can't go in the dishwasher.

Smeg CJF01 Citrus Juicer

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Best aesthetically pleasing citrus press

Star rating: 4.5/5

Smeg is well known for its beautiful appliances with a 1950s look. This citrus juicer is available in a range of pastel colours and attractive enough to live on your countertop or breakfast bar. It's not all looks however — on test we found it super-easy to use and impressively well built.

All you need to do is press the halved citrus fruit onto the juicing cone and the spindle will begin to rotate. We produced an impressive 200ml of juice from a single orange, with just a little pulp as expected. Overall we liked that this was smaller and more attractive than many other citrus juicers on test and would be brilliant for cocktails, baking and more.

Sage the Nutri Juicer Cold Plus

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Best blowout juicer

Star rating: 4/5

This is a large and powerful gadget, best suited to those who have a lot of kitchen space to play with and like to make juice for a crowd. It's also brilliant for batch-making juice in large quantities as it comes with a 2-litre jug with a sealed lid, which allows you to store juice in the fridge up to three days.

One feature of this juicer we really liked on test was the large chute, which eliminates the need to cut up fruit and veg finely. Though we liked the user-friendly design of this juicer overall, we found it struggled to juice kale, even on the high setting suggested in the manual. It coped far better with apples, ginger and carrots.

Nutribullet Juicer Pro

Nutribullet Juicer Pro

Best centrifugal juicer

Star rating: 4/5

Nutribullet might be best known for its smoothie makers, but it also has a range of juicers. On test we were impressed with how quick this juicer was – brilliant if you're in a hurry. It ticks a lot of boxes if you're new to juicing: it isn't as pricey as many other models we tested, it's easy to assemble, and all of the components are dishwasher-safe, which makes for a speedy clean-up.

We were slightly disappointed by the dull colour of our green juice, which suggested the kale hadn't been fully processed. There was also a thick layer of foam on the top of the juice, but this is characteristic of centrifugal juicers, so not surprising.

Nutribullet Juicer

Nutribullet Juicer

Best budget juicer

Star rating: 4/5

With an RRP under £100 this is the most affordable juicer in our list and a brilliant option if you're new to the world of juicing. It was easy to assemble, simple to use and easy to clean thanks to the components being dishwasher-safe. As a centrifugal juicer it was quick to use, although it's worth noting that we found it pretty noisy, so it might not be well suited for morning use if you have a quiet house.

As we'd expect from a centrifugal model at this price, the final result wasn't as smooth as with some other models on this list, and it struggled with heartier green vegetables like kale.

How to choose the right juicer for you

There are two main types of mechanism that juicers use: fast or slow. Fast, or centrifugal, juicers work by spinning the fruit or veg very quickly against a grater or disk. The juice is then pulled through a fine mesh or sieve by the centrifugal force acting in the machine, and comes out of a spout at the end. These machines tend to be speedy and fairly affordable.

Slow juicers use a more complex and lengthy process to extract the juice. These machines tend to be pricier than their faster counterparts. Read more about slow juicers below.

Some juicers have an insert for juicing citrus, while some are designed specially for citrus fruit. These are great for making cocktails or if you like fresh orange juice with your breakfast.

Are slow juicers really better?

Slow juicers, also known as masticating juicers, work by squeezing and crushing the fruit or veg using a corkscrew-shaped implement call an auger. After they've been crushed, the ingredients are pressed through a fine sieve or strainer, which means you get a final result without any foam.

They are slower than other types of juicers, as the name indicates, but are generally considered the preferable model. The auger allows masticating juicers to effectively tackle tough vegetables and leafy greens and will likely be able to extract more juice than other styles of juicer.

How we test juicers

We test juicers using criteria including ease of use, versatility, sustainability and ease of cleaning. As with all our appliances, we use the same recipes to test each product in the category so we can compare how they perform.

For juicers we used a carrot, apple, kale and ginger juice to make sure the juicers could tackle both tough and soft ingredients. For citrus juicers, we made a classic orange juice to see how they faired with pulp and also with the pips.

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