A good appliance can whizz up all manner of fruit and veg, from antioxidant-rich berries to convenient frozen fruit and fibre-rich leafy greens, with the best of the blending bunch delivering a perfectly smooth fitness drink, free from off-putting fibres or unpleasant grainy textures. If smoothies and healthy blends are your mainstay, then this is the first blender we’d suggest, for sure. The Ninja Foodi Power mixes and blends so you can enjoy dips and frozen yoghurt as well as smoothies.

Create luxuriously thick smoothie bowls, crunchy and smooth nut butters, pâté and frozen yoghurt in the Power Nutri Bowl – the built-in Power Paddle means there’s no need to scrape or shake thick mixtures. Carefully place the lid or Hybrid Edge Blades Assembly on the top of the cup/bowl and align the threads so the lid/blade assembly sits flat on the cup/bowl. As you’ll see later, this doesn’t make much difference in practice – the less powerful motor is fine since you’ll only ever be working with smaller volumes of food.The plastic parts can be placed in the dishwasher and stubborn residues can be whizzed off with soapy water in the blending cup. Protect your appliance against the cost and hassle of unexpected failure and give yourself some added peace of mind with one of our great value extended warranties! A full-on blender can be a waste of space for people who largely want to make smoothies, with just the occasional foray into dips and sauces. Thanks to the built in power paddle, ingredients are pushed towards the blade so there’s no need to scrape or shake thick mixtures. Adding to the coconut flakes, I put in pineapple chunks (including the core), mint leaves, yoghurt and coconut milk.

Exclusive to Ninja, these intelligent programmes are tailored to deliver the perfect results at the touch of a button. Five stars will be better for early morning smoothies, when people are still sleeping, while one star will wake up the house.Ninja’s trademark Auto iQ programs are developed to make one-touch blending easy, but do they produce great results without a hassle? With a powerful 1100W motor and Auto-iQ technology, the CB100UK will make you rethink what a blender can do. Twisting the Smart Torque turns the paddles inside the Bowl, preventing sticky ingredients from adhering to its sides. Admittedly, you’ll be running this blender for only short periods, but it’s not pleasant to stand next to while it’s doing its thing.

Some really struggle with this task, while others succeed - it really does help to distinguish the brilliant from the bad blenders. For these people, the Ninja Foodi Power Nutri Blender 2-in-1 CB100UK could well be the right choice. From light and silky to thick and spreadable, create sumptuously thick smoothie bowls and nut butters, silky drinks, dips and dressings and more – exactly as you like them. Starting life on the consumer PC press back in 1998, David has been at the forefront of technology for the past 20 years.It’s sturdy and robust enough not to travel across the worktop, even for harder jobs, and we’ll put up with the noise if the trade-off is not having to interfere with any of the blending. Forget about having to scrape down the sides or manually mix your concoctions up, because the Ninja blender has a clever “pull-down” mechanism, and will choose to pulse the mix instead of going full throttle. The foodie power nutri 2-in-1 blender is a hugely powerful, intelligent and slick-looking blender for not too big an outlay.