Natural fresh juices are not only delicious. They contain a lot of vitamins, minerals and biologically active substances. Freshly squeezed juices are a part of many diets, both curative and simply healthy.

That is why the presence of a juicer in the arsenal of your kitchen accessories is not a whim, but a well-founded necessity.

How to choose a juicer for apples, carrots, tomatoes or other fruits and vegetables? Do these household appliances differ for obtaining delicious natural drinks according to their intended use?

Types of Juicers

First of all, juicers are divided into manual and electric. By the method of pressing - on auger and centrifugal. The latter work exclusively on electricity, and the screw is used both electric and manual.

When deciding which juicer to choose, you should also pay attention to the following parameters:

• engine power;
• performance;
• quality of materials, of which the body and working parts are made.

Also important are the design features on which convenience in operation depends:

• simplicity of assembly;
• easy to clean and wash after use.

Metal parts should be reliably protected from corrosion, and plastic parts are made of food plastic.

To produce juice from apples and vegetables, you can choose a universal electric juicer with a powerful engine and good performance. A quality juicer that can squeeze juice from apples, pears, carrots, celery and other fairly hard fruits and vegetables can not be cheap. You can choose such a juicer in the middle price segment, where the prices start from $ 100 and above.

According to the experience of many housewives, the production of Russian and Belarusian production is the most productive and reliable. Foreign analogues are much more expensive and in practice are less practical and durable. True, they have a better design - this does not take away. But the Russian or Belarusian juicer can easily cope with the hardest fruits. Some owners of these useful devices joke that if desired they can cook with their help, even birch sap.

The power consumption of electrical devices depends on the engine power. But in some models with low power, high performance is preserved, because they use the principle flywheel: first the centrifuge is accelerated at idle speed, after which it is able to process a bucket of apples for several minutes. Selecting such a device means saving on power consumption.

To get a drink from apples in most cases you will have to cut them and release them from the core. However, some squeezers cope with whole fruits (Russian Rossoshanka, for example).

To obtain a vitamin drink from soft fruit and berries in these models, it is required to replace the filter nets. Sometimes they are included in the delivery package initially, but sometimes they are sold separately.

If the instructions to the device tell that it is intended only for working with soft and juicy berries, do not spend money on the purchase of such household appliances.

At best, you will be available a drink from apricots or peaches, cherries and plums. And in advance you will have to take care of the removal of ossicles and stems. As a rule, such devices are equipped with low-power engines, which quickly fail.

Screw Juicers

On electric models intended for making juice from apples, carrots and other fairly firm vegetables and fruits, do not squeeze juice from tomatoes and soft berries. The product will turn out to be watery, and the filters quickly clog. But the screw juicer is perfect.

The hand screwed juicer looks like an ordinary meat grinder. It differs by a longer and conical auger, and for squeezing the juice a special cone nozzle is used.

The electric screw-type juicer is suitable for obtaining juice from almost any raw material: from tomatoes, berries, pomegranates, apples, greens, etc.

Manual models are quite inexpensive and are produced in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine. Tomato juice is dense, with a uniform consistency. The oil cake and seeds are removed through the nozzle of the cone-shaped nozzle. It is not necessary to apply great physical effort for spinning. You can squeeze tomatoes, cherry-free cherries, apricots, peaches, plums.

The advantage of screw models is that in the process of squeezing the crushed raw material has little contact with air, and therefore less oxidizes. In addition, less pulp enters the product. By cons, we attribute a significantly higher cost (in comparison with centrifugal models).

Some electric meat grinders can be supplemented with special nozzles for squeezing juice. This combination of functions is especially common in kitchen combines. On such devices it is possible to get a quality and delicious drink from tomatoes, soft juicy berries, watermelons.

Citrus juicer

If you like mostly fresh vitamin drinks obtained from citrus, you should choose a special juicer. As a rule, citrus fruits are not squeezed out on centrifuge models due to the fact that the films and bones quickly clog the filter meshes.

To squeeze the juice on the auger models you will need to pre-clean the fruit from the skin. Special models are deprived of these inconveniences: you only need to wash oranges or grapefruits or cut them into halves.

The simplest models are a simple glass with a special-shaped lid and a low-power electric motor. Take a half of orange, press them on the ledge of the nozzle, the engine starts, and after a few seconds, there is a peel in your hand, and a tasty drink appears in the glass.

The device is very compact and practical. But if you decide to choose this model, then you will have to settle for a drink of citrus fruit pulp, as you will not get any juice from them on any other vegetables or fruits.

• the most universal is the electric screw-type squeezer;
• optimal for the price and quality - a universal squeezer of Russian or Belarusian production with an electric motor.