NutriSlicer

NutriSlicer Review: Is It Worth It?

By HighYa Research Team

Published on: Mar 29, 2018

NutriSlicer combines three interchangeable blades, a suction lock system, and a precision power handle claiming to help you safely slice, chop, or grate vegetables, cheese, and fruit up to 18 times faster than normal in a single turn.

The website advertises you’ll just lock it to your counter in seconds, insert the appropriate stainless steel drum blade, and you’ll be able to quickly make deliciously healthy homemade soups, tasty salads, scrumptious finger foods for the kids, along with other nutritious snacks and meals.

And when you’re finished, the drums are dishwasher safe, while the plastic chute can be rinsed in the kitchen sink.

Based on what we viewed in the commercial, NutriSlicer seems like it could live up to its claims of making slicing, chopping, and grating easier. But, is it necessarily the best tool for the job? This is the central question we’ll help you answer in this brief article, starting with the price.

Cost and Buying Options

If purchased through their As Seen On TV offer, one NutriSlicer will cost you $19.99 (S&H is free), while picking up a second device during checkout will cost you an additional $6.95 fee.

We also found the device sold through Amazon for $24.95, as well as Bed Bath and Beyond for $19.99 (including in-store pick up, depending on location).

All direct orders also come with a nutrition guide. We reached out to customer service at 866-248-9853 looking for additional details (e.g., length, what kinds of information it includes, whether or not it’s customizable based on diet, etc.), although they weren’t able to provide further insight.

Nonetheless, direct NutriSlicer purchases come with a 90-day money-back guarantee, less S&H. Third-party refund policies will vary by retailer.

What Can We Learn from NutriSlicer Customer Reviews?

Between Amazon and BedBathandBeyond.com, we encountered a total of 15 customer reviews for NutriSlicer, who had given the device an average rating of about 3.5 stars. Common compliments related to ease of use and cleanup, while most of the relatively few complaints revolved around less-than-stellar functionality (specifically, that it tends to smash fruit instead of cut it) and flimsy quality.

NutriSlicer is manufactured by E. Mishan & Sons (EMSON, Inc.), a NYC-based company with an A Better Business Bureau rating, despite holding a total of eight negative customer reviews and more than 90 closed complaints, as of 3/28/18. Common topics (when details were available) seemed related to product quality and customer service concerns.

In addition to hundreds of other products, EMSON is also the company behind the very popular Gotham Steel brand, with additional offerings in the lineup including the original Gotham Steel Pans, along with Double Grill, Crisper Tray, Smokeless Grill, and Knives.

Comparison to Alternative Options

NutriSlicer is obviously a specific brand. However, if you search marketplaces like Amazon and Google Shopping for a broader, all-encompassing term like “round mandoline drum slicer,” you’ll find several other products designed meaningfully the same.

In fact, each of the below options—chosen at random—also feature interchangeable drum blades that are top-rack dishwasher safe, a hand-cranked arm, and a suction-based design (meaning that NutriSlicer’s suction cup bottom might not be as revolutionary as the manufacturer makes it seem). They also promise to deliver slicing, grating, and chopping functionality for vegetables, cheese, and fruit:

Given the similarities in their designs, their overall average customer feedback, as well as the companies’ marketing claims, we can see that the differences between them largely come down to three core factors: price, color, and the availability of a lifetime warranty. And the emphasis you place on them can go a long way toward potentially finding your best option.

For example, at just $19.99 and with free shipping (not to mention that you can get a second for an additional $6.95), NutriSlicer seems to be the lowest option. However, it’s also only available in red, so if you’re interested in something else, you might need to look at models like the Upintek, Benwish, or Edofiy models.

Finally, only Upintek, Zollor, and Zacfton offered lifetime warranties.

NutriSlicer vs. Traditional Food Mandolines

We think it’s important to point out that if you’re willing to move outside of drum-based designs, you’ll have a much wider variety of food mandolines to choose from. In fact, Foodal’s recent mandoline buying guide doesn’t reference any drum-based models, so other than overall size, there might not be much of an advantage to using one.

In fact, for about the same price as NutriSlicer and its similar competition, you can purchase entire traditional mandoline sets that feature as many as seven interchangeable blades. And since many of these models fold flat (except for those with catch basins, of course), they might actually take up less space than the product in question.

With all of these details in mind, let’s bring everything together, summarize, and help you come to your own conclusion about NutriSlicer.

The Bottom Line About NutriSlicer

If a device like NutriSlicer increases the amount of vegetables you eat, it stands to reason that it really could help you create healthy family meals, as claimed on the website.

However, the manufacturer doesn’t provide any data to support the claim that it can work up to 18 times faster than normal, so we might recommend taking it with a grain of salt.

And despite its mostly positive—if not fairly limited—online customer reputation, we also didn’t encounter any rotary drum food mandoline comparisons on professional cooking websites during our research. As such, we’d also recommend maintaining realistic expectations about how much value it might provide compared to more traditional designs.

One final consideration is that, although the manufacturer backs NutriSlicer with a 30-day refund policy, it’s not a risk-free transaction, since you’ll have to pay to ship it back to the manufacturer. You’ll also lose any fees associated with the BOGO offer.