Best Celery Juicer: A Complete Guide to Celery Juice & Choosing a Juicer

Why Celery Juice Is So Popular

Celery juice has a fresh, savoury taste and is naturally low in sugar, making it an attractive alternative to sweeter fruit juices. Celery provides potassium and contains calcium, magnesium, vitamins K and C, together with plant compounds including apigenin and luteolin. Its very high water content also makes celery juice naturally hydrating.

Interest in drinking pure celery juice was greatly increased by Anthony William, known as the Medical Medium, whose recommendations introduced millions of people to drinking celery juice, particularly first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. His advocacy played a major role in creating today’s widespread interest in celery juice.

Whatever your reason for drinking it, celery is inexpensive, widely available and easy to combine with other vegetables and fruit. It can be used for anything from a small glass of pure celery juice to the main ingredient in a larger green juice.

Making and Drinking Celery Juice

What does celery juice taste like?

Fresh celery juice has a clean, crisp, mildly savoury flavour with a subtle natural saltiness. The flavour varies with the celery itself: younger, paler stalks tend to be milder, while darker leaves and strongly flavoured celery can make the juice more bitter.

Should you use organic celery?

Choosing organically grown celery can reduce exposure to synthetic pesticide residues. Whether using organic or conventionally grown celery, wash the stalks thoroughly before juicing.

Should you remove the leaves?

Celery leaves are edible and can be juiced along with the stalks. They have a stronger flavour, however, so a large quantity can make pure celery juice noticeably more bitter. Keeping or removing them is largely a matter of taste.

How much juice does a bunch of celery make?

There is no useful universal figure. Celery bunches vary considerably in size, weight, freshness and water content, and different juicers also extract different amounts.

For a meaningful comparison, it is better to weigh the celery before juicing and compare that with the measured juice output rather than use “one bunch” as a unit. Fresh, crisp celery will generally contain more available moisture than stalks that have already begun to dry out.

Celery Juice Recipes and Combinations

Celery can be juiced by itself, but its mild savoury character also makes it one of the most versatile bases for vegetable juice. Cucumber keeps the flavour light, apple or pear adds sweetness, citrus adds acidity, ginger adds heat, and leafy greens can turn it into a much more intensely flavoured green juice.

Simple combinations include:

• Pure celery — crisp, savoury and simple.
• Celery + cucumber + green apple — light, fresh and slightly sweet.
• Celery + ginger + lemon — sharper, brighter and more aromatic.
• Celery + carrot + beetroot — sweeter, earthier and more substantial.
• Celery + cucumber + leafy greens — a vegetable-rich green juice with very little sweetness.

There is no need to follow precise ratios. Celery can simply form the base, with the other ingredients added to taste.

For more ideas, see our cold press juice recipes and green juice recipes and guide.

When Should You Drink Celery Juice?

Some advocates recommend drinking pure celery juice first thing in the morning before breakfast, and this has become closely associated with the modern celery juice movement. There is no need to restrict celery juice to the morning, however, and it can be enjoyed at any time of day.

For people who prefer less fruit in their diet, pure celery or celery-based green juice can also provide a low-sugar alternative to predominantly fruit-based juices.

Storing and Freezing Celery Juice

Fresh juice is best consumed promptly for the freshest flavour. If you want to prepare it ahead, transfer it to a clean airtight container, refrigerate immediately and minimise the amount of air left in the container.

Freezing in small portions is another practical option when juice needs to be prepared further in advance. Leave sufficient room in the container for expansion during freezing and thaw it in the refrigerator before use.

Why Celery Can Be Difficult to Juice

Although celery contains a great deal of water, its physical structure makes it surprisingly demanding for a juicer. The stalks contain long, stringy fibres that behave very differently from soft fruit.

Depending on the machine, those fibres can wrap around rotating components, become trapped in fine mesh screens, restrict pulp outlets and make cleaning time-consuming. Some juicers require celery to be chopped into short pieces simply to keep the fibres manageable.

That makes celery a particularly useful ingredient for judging how well a juicer handles fibrous produce.

 

What Makes a Good Celery Juicer?

A good juicer for celery should handle long stalks with minimal preparation, move fibrous pulp continuously through the machine, extract the available juice efficiently and be easy to clean afterwards. If celery juice is going to become a daily habit, preparation and cleaning time can be just as important as juice yield.

Horizontal cold press juicers are particularly well suited to long fibrous produce. Their augers progressively grip, crush and press the stalks while moving the compressed fibre towards the pulp outlet. The same characteristic makes them effective with leafy greens, herbs and wheatgrass.

Strainer design also matters. Fine perforated baskets can trap celery fibres in their small openings and require scrubbing afterwards. A simpler juice path with fewer places for fibre to accumulate can make both juicing and cleaning easier.

Vertical cold press juicers can also juice celery and have their own advantages, particularly large auto-feed hoppers that reduce hands-on feeding. Centrifugal machines offer speed but use a very different high-speed cutting and spinning system. The best choice therefore depends on what else you juice and which aspects of preparation, feeding and cleaning matter most to you.

For a fuller comparison, see our horizontal versus vertical juicer comparison and cold press versus centrifugal juicer guide.

Torus Solo Cold Press Celery Juicer: Measured Performance

For people who juice celery and other fibrous greens regularly, the Torus Solo Gen2 is the model we favour. Its horizontal auger, whole-stalk feeding and direct-flow straining system address the main practical problems described above without relying on a conventional fine mesh basket.

Most celery stalks can be fed lengthways without chopping; unusually wide stalks can simply be folded. The auger pulls the stalk through, crushes and presses it, while the fibrous pulp moves towards the outlet. After juicing, the relatively simple components can generally be rinsed clean under running water.

Rather than rely only on those design characteristics, we have also measured the Solo’s actual celery performance.

This is a single documented run, not a claim that every batch will produce the same yield. Celery varies in freshness, variety and water content, which is why we publish both the input weight and measured output.

Cleaning was tested separately. The complete juicing components were disassembled and rinsed clean under running water in 50 seconds, without soaking or using a dishwasher.

The tests and continuous videos can be examined in the Torus Test Library.

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Choosing the Best Celery Juicer for You

If celery will be a regular part of your juicing routine, look beyond headline specifications. How well the machine manages long fibres, how much chopping is required, whether pulp moves through freely and how long cleaning takes are likely to matter much more in everyday use.

For frequent celery, wheatgrass and leafy-green juicing, we favour a horizontal cold press design and the Torus Solo in particular because its performance can be checked against our published tests. If automatic feeding of larger batches of mixed fruit and vegetables is more important, a vertical cold press juicer may be the better choice.