Acquiring a citrus juicer may be one of the best investments you can make for you and your family’s health. A citrus juicer will allow you to extract citrus juice fresh each and everyday. You can pick from the citrus family of fruits like oranges, limes, lemons, grapefruit or tangerines.

The health benefits of citrus fruits are numerous. The orange provides calcium and vitamin D for bone health. Citrus also provides vitamins C and A that help protect our skin. Citrus also provides antioxidants like A, E, and C especially helpful for our eyes and for those with cataracts it is especially beneficial. Citrus also has vitamin B6 to help fight disease and potassium to help keep fluids in the body balanced. Another benefit of citrus in thiamine for the heart and nervous system. As you can see a citrus juicer would help to take these great fruits and make fresh healthy juice to keep your body functioning to it’s best potential.

A citrus juicer is great when it is used simply to juice citrus fruits because many of the skins of citrus are not digestible. By having a citrus juicer just used for citrus you can just squeeze the juice and not the rest of the fruit like in a power juicer.

Citrus juicers come in many price ranges. A simple manual would cost under $10.00 that will just do a glass of juice at a time. You just put the fruit on the juicer over a glass and press down. There are citrus juicers that are called a citrus press. This is done manually and it crushes the fruit and you get juice that way. The best kind would be an electric citrus juicer that can do a quart or more at a time. It is fast and easy requiring little effort on your part. Most of these cost around $50.00 and have powerful motors that are usually stainless steel and dishwasher safe.