Nama C2 Juicer + Blender Review (2026)

The C2’s juicing side is identical to the J2… same hopper, same cold press extraction, same Pure Press technology (but with a different motor base). If you have used the J2 before, nothing here will surprise you. If you have not, the short version is: load whole produce into the 70 oz hopper (soft fruits/veggies at the bottom, harder ones on top), close the lid, and walk away. No plunger, no babysitting, no manual feeding one piece at a time.

Yield is strong across everything we have run through it. Leafy greens come out smooth with no stringy bits. Celery is clean with minimal foam (but still some foam). Beets and carrots process without any clogging but make sure to cut large beets up or the hopper blade might struggle (beets are HARD vegetables). Juice stays fresh for up to 3 days sealed in an airtight container but we’ve pushed it to 5 days with a slight change in flavor (but still tasty).

The juicing side of the C2 is not trying to do anything new. It is just the J2 in a different body… like me, when I finally get my diet and workout program in check. The new part is what sits on the other side of the motor base.

The blending side of the C2 is where things get more nuanced, and we want to be upfront about what we actually experienced.

We primarily used the smoothie preset during our testing. The way the cycle works: the blade runs for about 20 seconds, pauses for a second, then runs again for another ~10 seconds before stopping. This repeats a few times through the blend.

We understand why it does it… the motor is managing heat load. But having used a Vitamix, which runs continuously after you turn it on, the stop/start pattern of the C2 was noticeable every single time.

The bigger issue for us was blending Medjool dates. We use them quite often in smoothies and the C2 could not break them down the way we needed. It left date chunks the size of a pea which are large enough to chew as we drank and too big to fit through our straws but small enough where it wasn’t that bad. We make smoothies with dates for our toddler and they just wouldn’t fit through the straw of his sippy.

It felt similar to the older Ninja blender in that way; the blade is not quite sharp or fast enough to cut through dense, dry fruit cleanly. We ended up going back to our Vitamix strictly for blending.

For softer ingredients like frozen fruit, bananas, berries, and greens, the C2 does great! If your smoothies do not include dates or similarly dense ingredients, you will not run into this. But it is worth knowing before you decide between the C2 or keeping a separate dedicated blender and only buying the J2.

The C2 makes the most sense for households that juice and blend regularly and want to manage fewer appliances. Green juice in the morning, smoothies a few times a week, soups and nut milk when you get to it… the C2 can handle all of it from one spot on the counter.

If your smoothie routine is mostly frozen fruit, bananas, berries, and greens, the blending side will work well for you. If you rely on dates or similarly dense dry fruit (raisins, craisins, some hard nuts), be aware that the C2 struggled with those in our testing and we ended up going back to our 15-year-old Vitamix for blending.

But the C2 is not the right machine for you if you mainly juice. The J2 does that at a lower price and takes up less space. If you are new to cold press juicing and want to start without committing to the C2’s price, the J2 is where we would point you first.