Choosing the Best Extraction Juicer: A Comprehensive Guide

If you’re ready to add juice to your menu as a snack or beverage, you’ll need to determine which extraction juicer meets your unique needs. A commercial extractor is required to ensure premium flavor, texture, and nutrient retention. This blog serves as a comprehensive guide for choosing the right appliance for yield, efficiency, and quality.

Which is better a juicer or extractor juicer?

When it comes to determining what type of juicing machine is best for your restaurant or cafe your top options are manual, store-bought electric, and commercial electric. If you plan on adding juice to your snack or beverage menu, a commercial appliance is required.

Manual juice extractors

Manual extractors are typically handheld reamers or presses designed to extract juice from lemons, limes, oranges, and other citrus fruits. You cut your citrus in half, and manually twist or press to extract the juice within.

While effective, these juicers deliver a low yield and may not offer adequate seed control. If you require more than a tablespoon or two of juice at a time, this isn’t the right juicer for you.

Store-bought electric juicers

While a store-bought electric juicer is significantly faster than a manual juicer, it’s not designed for high-volume use. The pulp bin is small, it needs to be cleaned between every juice, and the juice yield is less than a commercial juicer. The motor is also small and will burn out quickly with high-volume use. The warranty doesn’t cover commercial use, so you’ll need to find a commercial supplier such as Zumex.

Commercial electric juicers

Commercial extractors are advanced juicing technology designed to meet your needs in high-volume juicing. They’re designed with features that improve juice yield, flavor, and quality. Zumex extractors are also designed to optimize your workflow. They have large peel bins, are ergonomic in their design, and are easy to break down and clean.

We have options that juice up to 30 gallons an hour and yield up to 2 ounces more juice per serving than our competitors. Our motors are commercial-grade, and we offer a 5-year warranty.

What does a juice extractor do?

A juice extractor effortlessly grinds or squeezes and presses the liquid gold inside fruits and vegetables. Juice is a top choice for health-conscious consumers. Some drink freshly squeezed juice daily to ensure they get no less than 5 servings of fruit and vegetables per day. For others, it’s a healthy sweet treat, a way to rehydrate after a workout, or a method of meeting targeted health and lifestyle needs.

Fresh juice:

• Provides hydration: Fruits and vegetables have a high water content. Many of your customers aim to drink about half their body weight in water, herbal tea, juice, and other hydrating fluids per day. However, juice has the added benefit of being nutrient-dense.
• Nutrient-dense: The vitamins and minerals in fruits and vegetables infuse consumer diets with a diverse range of antioxidants and essential enzymes. This promotes optimal digestion, health, anti-aging, and all-around wellness.
• Low-sugar sweet treat: Many health-conscious consumers turn to juice for their daily servings of sugar. Or they prefer a low-sugar green juice, formulated with the 80/20 extraction method. This means the juice contains at least 80 percent vegetables and no more than 20 percent fruit.
• Unrefined sugar source: Juice is how many consumers indulge their sweet tooth. From all-fruit juices to mostly veggies with a fruit or two for flavor and sweetness.
  

  
  

What is the difference between extractor and cold press juicer?

A cold press juicer is a type of juice extractor. However, electric extractors don’t just extract juice, they filter the seeds, skin, and pulp. There are also different types of electric extraction methods.

What are twin-gear juicers?

Triturating twin-gear juicers are specialty juicers. The manner they twist and grind greens is the most efficient method of extracting an ounce or two of liquid from wheatgrass or microgreens.

Twin gear juicers can juice a wide range of fruits and vegetables, but they’re designed for wellness shots, not full beverages.

What is a centrifugal juice extractor?

Zumex’s centrifugal extractor is the most popular type of juicing appliance. It’s a sleek and modern countertop design that extracts from both fruits and vegetables. Produce is inserted into the feed tube. When you press down on the food pusher, the titanium disk within shreds and grinds with efficiency. The nutrient-rich liquid is filtered through a high-speed metal basket to ensure no peel, seeds, or pulp flows in.

Produce prep time is minimal, but produce must be cut to fit the dimensions of the feed tube. For maximum efficiency, the feed tube is wider than store-bought alternatives. It juices smooth, refreshing, and delicious juice.

What is a cold press extraction juicer?

The Zumex cold press is designed for high-volume juicing of fruits and vegetables. This floor-standing extractor crushes and presses produce, minimizing the heat-related oxidation of other juicing methods. This preserves digestive enzymes and nutrients and eliminates foam and separation. It’s the gold standard in juice extraction technology, particularly for pre-bottled juicing. The internal mesh filter ensures no pulp, seeds, or peels escape—for smooth and elevated juice.

Produce prep time is minimal. You just need to cut pineapples and large melons in half before pressing. This technology is also referred to as a slow press, auger, or masticating juicer.

What is a citrus juice extractor?

If you plan on serving a high volume of citrus fruits, this is your most efficient OJ juicing option. Cold presses and centrifugal juicers can juice citrus, but they’re a more time-intensive means of juicing oranges, grapefruits, lemons, and other citrus fruits.

Simply feed your citrus fruit into the feed tube or feed bin and the juicer does the rest. No peeling is required.

Our citrus juicers have adjustable pulp control built in, because many consumers want pulp in their OJ.

Is extracting the same as juicing?

Yes, extracting is another way to refer to juicing. While these terms can be used interchangeably, not all juicing technology is the same.

Here’s what to consider:

• Produce mix: If you only want to juice citrus fruits, you only need a citrus juice extractor. If your juice menu contains OJ and a range of fruits and vegetables, you may need both a multi-produce and citrus juicer.
• Capacity: Consider how many servings you can juice without emptying the pulp and peel bin.
• Speed: Commercial juicers juice both individual servings and full gallons faster than store-bought models.
• Yield: Expect up to 1 to 2 ounces more juice per serving with a Zumex juicer.
• Automation: Consider how hands-on your technology is and how ergonomic the design is for comfortable high-volume juicing.
• Cleaning: Zumex juicers are designed with easy-to-empty peel bins and parts that are efficient to break down and clean up. We even have a self-sanitizing orange juice extractor.
• Durability: We offer a 5-year warranty to ensure your investment more than pays itself back.

Let’s discuss your individual needs

The information above is designed to help you make an informed decision regarding which extraction method will enhance your juice offerings.

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