ORIGINAL Healthy Juicer - Wheatgrass & Leafy Green Manual Juicer | Easy-to-Clean Cold Press Juicer | Original Since 2004 - Masticating Technology

It took about 2 weeks to get here after ordering - a week before shipping and a week in transit. Now that it's here, it's a pretty nice juicer.This is my first juicer. We decided to give this a try before investing more money in an electric juicer.What's in the box? Suction juicer base, clear plastic hopper/body, green plastic end cap with O ring, 2 little white end caps, screw core with white plastic bushing, crank handle, plastic cup, screen for plastic cup, 2 extra O rings, 1 extra white plastic bushing, pusher for hopper (which doubles as wrench to turn suction cup knob), wrench for green plastic end cap, and clamp. I say plastic, not sure what the exact materials are, but this is fairly heavy duty stuff.I've been juicing mostly vegetables with it, potatoes, carrots, celery, onion, and also tried a grapefruit and an orange. Works great on these. I cut up the potatoes and onion into french fry size, but carrots and celery I just feed whole. I've found that, if instead of just dropping the stuff in the hopper, if you just feed with one hand as you crank with the other it works really well. I think overall it works faster than cutting up the veggies small enough so they'll self feed. I'm sure this could cut off or crush a finger pretty easily so be careful of getting your fingers down too far. I've found if you feed the larger end of carrots or celery first you can just let go when you get to the smaller end and they'll self feed.I made the mistake the first time of having the cup underneath where the pulp comes out. If you call the side with the suction cup knob the front, the proper place to put the cup is in the back with the protruding part sticking under the crank handle side. That's where the juice comes out. You need your own bowl to catch the pulp that comes out the other end.The pulp comes out pretty much juiced out. I'm pretty impressed by how well it gets the juice out. I tried putting the pulp back through to see if I could get more juice out. I thought this was working but have since concluded that the pulp was acting almost like a sponge soaking up the juice that had already been extracted and was on its way to drip out and the re-pulp was not adding any more juice. Also re-pulping was very messy and made clean-up harder.The screen does a great job to make your juice pulp free if you want it that way, but you have to let gravity do the work. If you push down on the slush you'll end up pushing pulp through the screen. Of course if you don't mind pulp you can leave the screen off. (Here, of course, I'm talking about tiny little pulp that comes out with the juice, not the major juiced out pulp that comes out the other end.)Clean-up is pretty easy (when you don't make a mess re-pulping). Rinse out the screen and cup. You have to stuff a napkin where the juice comes out because another few drops come will inevitably come out when the cup isn't there. Remove and rinse off the little white nozzle. Remove and rinse off the green end cap (don't lose the O ring). Remove and rinse off the screw core. There is a removable bushing on the screw core (on the handle end). Stuff gets under there so take it off the screw core and rinse. Rinse out the hopper unit. (You need to unlock the suction cup for the hopper to slide out.) Carrot juice does seem to stain the screw core and the white tips a bit, but I don't think that's anything to worry about.I've only used the suction cup so far. I did yank it off the counter the second time I used it when it was hard to turn, but I've since learned not to feed it with too much at a time. I just let it cut off a little to feed through at a time. (That is the screw will cut what your feeding into it off in just the right amount.) Also, when I'm pulling up on the handle and it is harder to pull I will hold down the unit to be sure.Overall it's a nice product and I highly recommend.ps I thought I should try something soft since this says it's a wheatgrass juicer. The closest thing I have to wheatgrass I figure is spinach. I ended up putting a good handful through, but no juice! I send a carrot through after and the juice that comes out is green. Not sure how much is spinach juice.I notice that there is some play in the fit of the screw core. It has room to move from front to back. I cut a plastic washer out of a plastic milk jug and put that between the bushing and the screw core. It's a really nice fit now. I try the spinach again. Still no juice. (There's a juice slush in the screw core area, but no juice is flowing out.) Maybe spinach has no fiber to squeeze like wheatgrass does. I have some lettuce to try. Hey, the lettuce actually juices!I don't know if any conclusion can be made from this how wheatgrass will do, but the milk jug washer is a very good improvement.

This is my second Lexon juicer and i love these things. My first one i used for over a year of daily juicing and it worked fantastic. Eventually the plastic started to get really funky from just that much use. I could of kept using it but decided since they are so cheap to just buy a new one and now i have spare parts!For under $50, this juicer performs just as good or better then any 300$ juicer. Of course its hand powered so if you dont like to take 15 minutes to crank out some juice then its probably not for you. I actually enjoy it, every morning i get out everything im going to juice, cut it up and then start smashing. My 3 year old son also enjoys it and helps me quit often.This juicer will not get every last drop out of the pulp but it really does a very good job. There are some fruits that i would not recommend you use with it, mostly soft fruits with no real hard parts like pears, peaches, tomatos. They kind of just turn into baby food and dont move through. You can use small pieces along side fiberous things like oranges, leafy greens, etc. also if you are using this for leafy green juicing only, dont bother. Its funny that it is supposed to be a wheat grass juicer but i found that its area of expertise is juicy fruits and veg. If you use leafy greens, be sure to alternate them with juicy fruits to get the most out of them. For instance, this morning i juiced 3 apples, 1 orange, 1 lemon and a huge bunch of cilantro. Im talking a pound of cilantro. So what i do is i stick in a fist full of cilantro, crank till its starting to juice and then add some juicy fruit to add the juice to the cilantro and that extracts waaaay more cilantro juice then without the fruit. Btw that juicing made 16oz of delicious, non frothy juice.Setup and cleaning is a breeze. I learned from the first one that it is best to clean the juicer before it dries, otherwise it stains and will eventually get funky. If you clean it right away, you only need hot water and a little bristle brush, i use an oversized tooth brush.A few tips when juicing and using this juicer. It comes with an additional nut on the front to make the pulp come out a smaller hole, dont use it. I found it just make back ups happen more frequently and the more pulp that comes out where the juice is supposed to come out, the more clogged the screen gets. Also the screen will get clogged from time to time from pulp, esp with apples, cucumbers and other softer fruits. Just use your finger or a piece of celery or something and rub the pulp around untill everything drains through. Also make sure that there is not water or debre under the suction cup otherwise it might pop off the table when you are cranking hard and that can make a hell of a mess.Like i said, this thing is grear and unless your willing to spend at least $300, this juicer will out preform any centrifugal juicer and most slow auger juicers. Plus you can bring it anywhere. I seriously love it and i have gotten a lot healthier since i added my daily 8-16oz juice.Hope this helps!P.S. i gave this juicer 5 stars because for what it is and the price of it, it very much exceeds my expectations. I know some others nit pick it on how wet the pulps is and whatnot but really, what do you expect for $50? Go and buy and $1000 hydraulic press if you really was that last ounce or two of juice. I use roughly $5 a day in organic produce for my juice and usually yield 16oz. For me, that is a great deal.