Can this make bannana juice from banannas, or does it come out like a smoothie?
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Centrifugal juicers, like the JE98XL Juice Fountain Plus, do not process bananas well. Bananas are best processed in a blender since there is little to no 'extraction' actually done on the fruit.
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My sister made several veggie and fruit smoothies while visiting us - she used leafy vegetables - baby spinach, romaine,etc. It worked well for that. But I don't think you'd get beet juice or carrot juice! (I used frozen mango chunks in it; it made a God-awful racket, even after I added some juice but it did finally make a puree for a smoothie with vanilla frozen yogurt. YUM!
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It does not make juice, it makes very smooth pulp. We use carrots daily as part of our smoothie blend. We like the smoothie rather than juice as it has the full complement of vitamins and minerals. A juicer will throw off the pulp.
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I continue to be amazed by how smooth and frothy everything is that comes out of this. I once made a green smoothie with spinach and apples and it was fine. WHOLE lemons come out frothy and smooth, too, but it doesn't eliminate the PULP (which is an advantage over juicers). Bottom line: no chunks.
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You do get some pulp. This juicer is excellent at squeezing everything out of your veggies. You get so many enzymes and vitamins out from your squeezed, high quality juice that pulp is not necessary or needed. The juice goes right into your bloodstream. You can get all the pulp you want from a blender and your nutri bullet. You get different results. Juice utilizes more veggies and gets absorbed quickly into the bloodstream and a smoothie with pulp doesn't utilize many veggies and goes to your stomach to be digested. I don't suggest putting the dried pulp back in cause your extracted juice has everything you need....even fiber.
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In the strict sense, no. Juicers extract the juice (water) from the plants. The vitamix blends the plants into a smooth concoction. You do need to add juice or water to do this but would be amazed at how little. If your goal is to create the healthiest and tastiest drink than go with the vitamix and make a smoothie. You will read that he advantage of smoothies is fiber, but that is not completely true. Think about how much of the vitamins, anti-oxidants that are left in the plant itself after you extract out the water/juice. Especially in non-juicy plants like; spinach, kale, carrots, etc... Plus you can throw in healthy juice, protein power, Metamucil, etc... into the vitamix and it will blend it all into a very smooth drink. But if a smoothie is not your idea of a meal and you just want a healthy juice to go with your meal/breakfast than I would go with a juicer, not the vitamix. It blends extremely well but does not extract. Hope that helps.
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I always mix it with a "smoothie." I have never tried mixing it with water or a juice as I suspect it has a strong taste if taken by itself.
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This works real well in a smoothie I make. The ingredient that works the best is the pineapple juice. I use a blender and I mix 1/3 apple juice to 1/3 orange juice to 1/3 pineapple juice, a banana and a scoop of the Garden of Life and blend. It tastes wonderful and you do not taste the Raw food. Enjoy!
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I have not tried that yet. I have been using it for green smoothies, which it does fairly well. A few small chunks here and there
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I don't think it juices but it turns frozen fruit into smoothies with ease.
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I'm not sure if smoothies can be made with it since I specifically bought it to juice. I would recommend purchasing a Bullet or something in that order for smoothies.
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No - It is strictly a juice. If you are really interested in juicing then this is your unit. If you want blended fun drinks then get a blender like Vita Mix.
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Hi Susan, about the fruit for the Yonanas. It is no way like a juicer. You only use the fruit that is fruit you would peel or could not eat the peel. If you put in an apple with the peel on it that would be okay but not a banana with the peel on it. It comes out like creamy ice cream as cold as the fruit is you put in, no juice comes out. Everything you put in comes out in your bowl so if you put in a fruit with seeds the seeds would come out in the frozen item but maybe ground up some. Hope this helps...Patsy H.
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I don't think the blades and revolutions for blending are high enough to consider my Magic Bullet model a 'juicer.' Having said that, I don't personally use my Magic Bullet as a juicer but I think Magic Bullet does make a juicing model.
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No, and never try to make such smoothie where other cheaper machines can do the job. Smoothies are blocks of ice crushed with fruits in a high power (750 watts or higher) blender.
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We haven't tried making smoothies with our VRT400. It is primarily a juice extractor and it does a great job of that. No matter what fruit or vegetable you put into it, it squeezes the juice out and leaves all the fibre and pulp behind. My opinion is that you would want to use a blender to make smoothies, not a juicer.
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I usually would just heat up water n then mix it with the tea, but recently I started using it with smoothies like I add bananas berries n strawberrys n I mix matcha in it n it taste good too. It all depends on what you prefer.