Health Master Living Well Montel Williams Juicer Review

by Edward R.
(Santa Fe, NM)

I bought the HealthMaster Living Well/Montel 1100-Watt 2-Quart Fruit-and-Vegetable Emulsifier. I like the premise of this juicer, to keep and retain that life saving fiber that will scrub out my digestive tract and keep me full so I don’t eat as much.

Sounds like a great idea to me, however when it comes to taste I must say that I prefer your standard juicer that separates the fiber, pulp, and peel from the juice.

Essentially, this juicer is a large blender, the blades are great and it comes with a long plunger that is needed to press the unprocessed chunks for fruit and vegetable against the blades. The pitcher is also very large allowing you to process a large amount of food at a time.

This is a very sturdy appliance that will not operate until you have all the components tightly locked in correctly, which makes it safe and will avoid the problems a wobbly blender has.

It features digital speed control and has a pulse button. Unlike a normal juicer, this “juicer” machine keeps all the fruit or vegetable in the end product, like the fiber, minerals, etc.- which is its main selling point.

I have used many juicers in the past and tried making my own version of the fruit/veggie drinks that one might find in the health food stores at $3-5 for an 8-ounce bottle.

Some of my favorites are juicing greens like spinach, kale or mustard greens combined with sweeter flavors like carrot, apple, beets with some ginger for a little kick. That combo always works for me. You get something that doesn't look all that great, but it is light and has a nice variety of flavors.

What happened when I put these in the Montel Williams juicer? I was expecting something like the smooth, fluid juices I was used to (even from a cheap $40 juicer). Well, what I got was really thick! I had to add quite a bit of water to get the mixture to blend and it still ended up quite thick.

My “juice” was less juice and more like a thick puree, the machine wasn’t able to get the carrots and beet chunks fine enough for my taste as there were these large bits of carrot throughout the blend that did not make for a good drink.

Besides the large pieces the blades were unable to reduce, the mixture was way too thick to drink. I ended up using a spoon to eat it even after adding plenty of water.

It was nice to know that I had all of that life saving fiber in this concoction and I must say I felt completely full after eating only 6 ounces of it, where normally I would have had about two 8-ounce glasses of juice.

So, basically to wrap things up, what you are getting with this product is not a “juicer” but a great, large blender. If you like really pulpy juice (and I mean really pulpy) the Montel Williams Healthmaster will work out great. Otherwise, buy it to use as a blender and have another juicer on hand for juicing.