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      Nutrients: “A Comparison of the Satiety Effects of a Fruit Smoothie, Its Fresh Fruit Equivalent and Other Drinks”
    
      Lauren Harris-Pincus, RDN
    




Find the best blender for your needs, considering how often you'll use it and how much space you have.

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The Essential Kitchen features our favorite products, tips and recipes to help optimize your cooking space and prep healthy meals quickly and easily.

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The Essential Kitchen features our favorite products, tips and recipes to help optimize your cooking space and prep healthy meals quickly and easily.

  • Things to Consider Before Buying a Blender
  • How We Chose
  • Best Value
  • Best for Big Families
  • Best for Smoothies
  • Best Immersion
  • Best Self-Cleaning
  • Best for Soup
  • Best High-Speed
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The Ninja Professional Plus Blender is powerful enough to create creamy smoothies, nice cream, and slushies.

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The KitchenAid K150 Blender should enter some sort of competition: It can crush a half-tray of ice in 10 seconds.

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This personal blender is great if you make protein shakes or smoothies often.

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For latte lovers out there, reach for this multifunctional immersion blender from Mueller Austria.

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A self-cleaning blender almost sounds too good to be true, but here it is in all its glory.

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For super heating power when making soups, buy this Vitamix blender.

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While it comes at a higher price, this blender can help you prep your recipes in minimal time.

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If you're on the go often, this small blender from Cuisinart is for you.

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For all the functions and recipes, this blender system is the ultimate healthy kitchen tool.

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Though it comes at a high price point, this blender from Blendtec is full of special features and powerful for tough blending jobs.

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      Nutrients: “A Comparison of the Satiety Effects of a Fruit Smoothie, Its Fresh Fruit Equivalent and Other Drinks”
    
      Lauren Harris-Pincus, RDN