Smoothie challenge: NutriBullet Balance vs Sage The Boss To Go

With so much hype surrounding the new NutriBullet Balance blender, we just had to try it out in this week’s episode of Challenge Wednesdays.

This latest NutriBullet costs £150 and comes with an app that analyses the nutritional content of your smoothies.

We’ve pitted it against Sage’s The Boss to Go - a premium compact blender costing around £100.

We’ve created a three-pronged smoothie challenge (see recipes below) to see which blender makes the smoothest drinks with the least amount of froth or separation. Each recipe is exactly the same and contains the same amount of ingredients (although with the Sage being smaller we’ve ended up using slightly fewer ingredients in the green smoothie so as not to overpack it). To make the challenge as fair as possible we’re blending each drink for 30 seconds exactly.

The verdict? We think the Sage just beat the NutriBullet, since there was less separation in the green smoothie and it blended the frozen banana and berry smoothies with fewer ‘bits’. We were impressed with both blenders, however, and we liked the fact that the NutriBullet was able to make bigger drinks.

We hope you enjoy this video. Remember it is in no way related to our official Which? tests - these are conducted in lab conditions and assess how well each blender tackles a range of tricky ingredients and recipes including soup, pesto and ice.

See which blenders we recommend https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/blend...

And check out our blender advice guides, as well as information about our official testing https://www.which.co.uk/reviews/blend...

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Green smoothie

Put the following in a bowl and transfer to blender:

1 cup packed kale leaves, stems removed
1 cup packed spinach leaves
1 green apple, cored and diced
1/2 cucumber, diced

Add:

1/2 teaspoon honey
1/2 cup water

Blend on high until smooth and transfer to glass

Frozen Banana Smoothie

Put the following in the blender:

1 frozen banana in chunks (in small bowl or plate)
1 tbsp oats
2.5 tbsp peanut butter in ramekin

Add:

1 cup milk

Blend on high until smooth and transfer to glass

Berry smoothie

Put the following in a bowl and transfer to blender:

1 banana in chunks
140g frozen berries

Add:

1/2 teaspoon honey
1/2 cup water

Blend on high until smooth and transfer to glass

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