Z-Star Manual Juicer Wheatgrass Juicer
- Single Auger Manual Juicer
- Juices Wheatgrass, Kale, Spinach, other veggies and fruits
- 1 year warranty
Product Description
Wheatgrass contains some of the highest concentrations of vitamins, minerals, and nutrients when compared to other fruits and vegetables. It is also one of nature's richest sources of chlorophyll and hundreds of other live enzymes. Until recently, obtaining the juice from this miracle plant required purchasing expensive juicers or making a trip to your local juice bar to buy a shot. Now, with the new Z-Star Manual Juicer, Tribest makes it affordable to be able to juice wheatgrass at home, or on the go. Its unique single-auger design uses an extremely gentle and efficient process to extract more high-quality juice from each blade of wheatgrass - without electric power. Not only can it juice wheatgrass, the Z-Star Manual Juicer can also extract great-tasting and nutritious juice from a variety of fresh fruits, vegetables, and leafy greens. The Z-Star Manual Juicer is lightweight, portable, and versatile, so you can enjoy fresh juice wherever you go!
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Z-Star Manual Juicer Wheatgrass Juicer
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- Publisher: Tribest
- Label: Tribest
- Studio: Tribest
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 7 reviews
- Sales Rank in Kitchen & Housewares: #67781
Avg. Customer Review:
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: Has a few cons 2008-06-09
Comment: It's not that great of a juicer like I read in other reviews. I got it for traveling. When I received the unit the juicing screen and rubber o-ring that secures the juicing drill into the base was poorly glued. Bad sign, and sure enough came off and broke in less than a month. Also, the handle needs to be 100% set in place accurately or it will bend the inside of it when juicing because you really crank hard and stop working.
Depending on what you are juicing, it can be a real work out. The representative was surprised that I used it to juice carrots.??? I mean come on, wake up. List something besides wheatgrass on your website or reading material if you think it can't handle it.
It's not that portable. It stands pretty tall, has quite a few parts , a heavy metal base and you need to clamp it to something with the vise. (I guess you can say an RV is good for traveling too)
Recently I mailed it in for replacement parts or hopefully a complete replacement. This will take another 2 months to have it delivered, repaired or replaced and mailed back. Which is a huge burden if you planned to take it traveling with you....goodluck
In all, yes, in all you can take it traveling with you. I'll keep this product review updated
Here's the update.
I mailed it back to the company and they fixed or replaced all the parts.
They did a turn around within a month.
While it may not get much juice from harder produce like carrots. It does give more juice than a centrifugal (eg. a Hamilton juicer) when juicing fruits.
Based on what's available, it a good juicer.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: A Good Less Expensive Alternative 2008-05-17
Comment: I like the fact that the Z-Star juices wheatgrass as well as fruit and vegetables. I do not mind turning the handle at all. It did a great job on the wheatgrass. As someone mentioned the pulp did tend to fall into the juice, but all I had to do to remedy that was use a taller container to catch the pulp as it came out. I cut my beets and carrots into 1 inch pieces. When it was clamped down the Z-Star did not bounce around for me. I had it clamped to cutting board that pulls out from under my kitchen counter. I did try frozen grapes and that did not go well, but fresh grapes were great. I like the Z-Star because even though I can't spend $400 on a juicer I can still have fresh juice.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Summary: WORKS GREAT FOR A MANUAL JUICER 2007-03-09
Comment: We were just experimenting, and discovered Wheat grass. So we now purchase the wheat grass by the flat. This Z-Star juicer works great. Its easy clean up too. We feel its durable and if this keeps up we may up grade to an electric juicer. But for now our budget is tight and turning the handle is good exercise as well!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating: 
Summary: a little more work, a little more efficient 2007-02-09
Comment: by the time the plastic motor housing broke on the Jack Lalanne model i'd been using, i knew enough about juicing to know that i wanted to try a non-centrifugal machine. read tons of reviews and agonized sufficiently and was on the verge of buying the Omega 8005 when i noticed this manual juicer. it employs more-or-less the same principles, with the obvious exception that you have to turn the crank as opposed to a motor doing it for you. and it's 1/3 the price. i juice mainly leafy greens, carrots and apples. it does a nice job with them all. it's true that carrots and apples etc. need preparation that would not be required with a powerful, centrifugal maching with a wide feed-chute. (i give the carrots a coarse julienne cut and quarter the apples.) others have remarked that these types of juicers (the auger type) don't do justice to fruits, which may be true of most fruits. but i've found that i get a decent return on oranges. i have come to believe that the juice tastes better, compared with that produce by a centrifugal machine, but maybe that's just the effect of hype. i do know that i get more juice per unit of vegetable/fruit. and the fact is that if you are using a centrifugal machine, and you want leafy green juice, you're gonna waste a lot of veg. plus those machines are obnoxiously loud. my advice: go old school, crank it yourself. btw, 4 stars not 5 'cause nothing is perfect.
4 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
Customer Rating:
Summary: Not impressed 2006-02-19
Comment: So I just bought this thingy last night, and the first things I juiced were a mango and some strawberries. The pulp was soaking wet!!! Maybe this machine is more for wheatgrass and leafy greens. I haven't tried juicing those yet, since I don't have any on hand, but this machine SUCKS at juicing mangos and strawberries. Oh yeah, I juiced some carrots too, and even though the juicer was clamped down, it kept bouncing around every time piece of carrot snapped inside of it. I found it very hard to hold in place. So yeah, only buy this if want to use it primarily for greens.
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Z-Star Manual Juicer Wheatgrass Juicer
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