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How to Select the Right Electric Citrus Juicer for Your Needs

Juice business
15 agosto 2024

If your juice bar, café, or grocery store will be serving freshly squeezed OJ, you’ll need to invest in an electric citrus juicer. Handheld juicing reamers are effective, but they’re time-consuming. In addition, they don’t offer pulp and seed control. Your electric alternatives are high-tech appliances with a variety of meaningful features. The higher your juice volume the greater your need for yield, speed, and ease of use.

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What kind of juicer is best for citrus?

A dedicated citrus appliance is best for extracting every drop of liquid gold inside citrus fruits. From pure OJ and grapefruit juice to lemon juice for lemonade, lime juice for cocktails, or citrus for any other recipe you serve. Oranges are one of the most popular fruits in the world and OJ is one of the best-selling juices globally. This makes for a potentially lucrative snack or beverage line item.

Let’s explore your top commercial options:

Electric OJ Reamers

Electric OJ reamers function like handheld reamers but require less physical effort. While they extract more juice, they require a high level of hands-on operation. This includes chopping citrus in half, proper alignment on the reamer, and removing the juiced peel.

If you only juice a cup or two of citrus per day, this option may be effective. However, reamers don’t meet your needs for self-serve or high-volume.

Zumex’s revolutionary technology empowers you to juice up to 30 gallons per hour.

Self-Serve OJ Juicer

Self-serve orange juicers are a popular choice for hotels and grocery stores. They allow your customers to juice as little or as much orange juice as they want. For most, this is somewhere between 8 and 16 ounces.

Zumex has countertop and floor-standing self-serve OJ juicers. They are safe and easy for adult customers to operate–even kids can operate our juicers. Just feed the oranges in and the juicer presses and extracts fresh and delicious OJ.

High-Volume Citrus Juicers

High-volume citrus juicers can juice one serving at a time, but their defining difference is that they automate high-volume juicing. Feed an entire case into the citrus bin to juice gallons of orange, grapefruit, and other citrus juice. This is ideal if you sell bottled OJ or multi-fruit and veggie juices. Or if you want to pre-juice gallons of juice for non-juice recipes. This includes smoothies with a juice base, cocktails, and other menu items.

Multi-Produce Juicers

Our intention with this blog is to highlight the benefits of appliances designed specifically for OJ. However, we must note that centrifugal and cold presses can extract nature’s goodness from every fruit or vegetable—including citrus fruits. The higher your daily volume of citrus juice, the more time-efficient it is to upgrade to a citrus juicing machine. If you only use citrus in multi-fruit recipes, you may prefer the versatility of a multi-produce juicer.

What is the difference between a juicer and a citrus juicer?

The term “juicer” includes all types of juicing appliances. Manual, electric, store-bought, commercial, multi-produce, and citrus-only. The term “citrus juicerrefers to any manual or electric juicing technology designed specifically for citrus fruits. While multi-produce juicers can juice citrus, if you expect to serve more than a couple of gallons per day—a dedicated citrus juicer is the most efficient in time and yield. Many cafés and grocery stores only invest in a citrus juices while juice bars may require both a citrus juicer and a multi-produce juicer.

What is the difference between citrus and masticating juicers?

Citrus juicers only juice oranges, grapefruits, lemons, limes, and other citrus fruits. Masticating juicers extract juice from citrus fruits and all other fruits and vegetables. Masticating juicers are also referred to as cold presses, slow juicers, and augers.

What is the best juicer for freshly squeezed orange juice?

In terms of time and cost efficiency, electric citrus juicing machines are the best. However, not all juicers are created equally. You must take into consideration factors such as:

  • Capacity: Consider how many oranges you can feed into the feed tube or feed bin at a time. The more oranges you can feed, the more you save in labor dollars and COGS.
  • Speed: Calculate juicing speed. From how quickly you can juice a made-to-order OJ to how many gallons you can juice per hour.
  • Yield: Every juicer delivers a different yield. Zumex extracts an average of 1 to 2 ounces more per serving than our top competitors and significantly more than manual juicers.
  • Pulp control: For fiber and texture, many consumers want pulp in their OJ. However, not all citrus juicers allow for citrus pulp control. Zumex juicers allow you to tailor pulp extraction.
  • Automation: Once you feed citrus fruits into the feed bin of our high-volume juicer your team can multi-task while it juices.
  • Cleaning: Zumex juicers are designed with easy-to-empty peel bins and parts that are easy to break down and clean up. We even have a self-sanitizing orange juice extractor.
  • Durability: Another reason to upgrade from manual to electric juicers is for durability and lifespan. With proper use, cleaning, and maintenance your Zumex juicer will last for years to come. Be sure to register your juicer to access our 5-year warranty.

Let’s discuss which electric citrus juicer is right for you

Pure and fresh orange juice can be a lucrative line item for your juice bar, café, or grocery store. The factors above will help you narrow down which electric orange and citrus juicer is right for you. Zumex is here to help you decide which of our juicers meets your unique needs for quality, volume, and efficiency.
For more information on how Zumex can drive your business success, we recommend trying our ROI calculator. This tool allows you to discover how incorporating a juicer can significantly boost your annual profits.

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