Yonanas Classic Frozen Fruit Soft Serve Maker for Healthy Vegan and Dairy-Free Treats, 200W Silver Machine with 36 Recipes, BPA Free, Easy to Clean, Quick and Simple to Use

As usual, a fantastic purchase!I have been using a Yonanas maker off and on since they were first released, around 15 years ago. I have loved the desserts you can create with them since the beginning, and only stopped using them when I got to be too busy. Now that I have to cut down on my sugar intake, and because Im a huge frozen dessert fan, the Yonanas has made another appearance in my home. If you like sorbets/frozen fruits and want to watch your sugar, you can't go wrong!!A few things to remember -1. Let solid fruits thaw for around 10 minutes before blending. You will burn up the motor if you don't! That's why I had to buy this latest one - I forgot on my old one and tried to blend solid bananas.2. This is not a healthy ice cream maker - it tastes like bananas. If you don't like the taste of bananas, then this may not be for you. You can use other fruits, but it just blends the fruit into an icy mixture, it does not "transform" it into ice cream.3. Make sure to open up the blender when done to scoop out the remaining yonanas, there will be a couple of spoonfuls that is left over that you can't get to with the blender going.

I bought this as a gift for my mom and ended up buying one for myself! I love this! It's so easy to make frozen desserts. I like to add Greek yogurt, chia seeds, and granola to my frozen banana and blueberry dessert to make it fiber and protein packed. It's like an acai bowl. So easy to make and the consistency makes it taste like frozen yogurt. My mom and I both like the mangonada Mexican frozen desserts, so I bought her frozen mango, tajin, and chamoy sauce and she makes her own now! I bought myself the teal and the coral for my mom. For only $40-$50, it was definitely worth the price. If you like frozen desserts but don't want all the added sugar of ice cream, this is so worth it!

I was telling a couple of the girls at work yesterday about how I'd gotten a Yonana and how eager I was to try it. One of the other girls comes up and says, "You ordered a Yonana?" I said yes, thinking she was going to tell me wonderful things about it. Instead, she said she'd had one, that she hated it, and recommended that I immediately pack it up and ship it back without trying it. She claimed it was noisy and difficult to clean. She recommended getting a Ninja instead and said a Ninja is more versatile, but then she went on to say that she has to add liquid to her fruit, which defeats the purpose for why I'd ordered the Yonana in the first place. I'm on Weight Watchers, and I'd ordered the Yonana because all you need is fruit and fruit is zero points on Weight Watchers. What's not to love about "free" food? My co-worker also complained about needing to use two bananas for the Yonana and said that bananas are too high in carbs. High in carbs or not, bananas still count as "free" food on Weight Watchers and, contrary to what my co-worker said, you do not need to use two bananas nor do you need to use any bananas. So, being the stubborn person that I am, I decided not to take my co-worker's advice.Last night I got to try the Yonana. My assessment...it is noisy. So noisy that it should be packed up and shipped back? No. It's no more noisy than my blender or my son's juicer. And it is not difficult to clean. Not in the least little bit. In fact, I was a bit wary of the blades on the blade cone because they looked a bit evil, like they could scrape up a knuckle without a second thought - but the blades actually ended up being very easy to clean off. You can actually just run the parts under water and rinse them off, it cleaned up that easily. If my co-worker wants to see difficult to clean, she can borrow my son's juicer, which requires scrubbing with a toothbrush to get all the pulp out.I'd read some reviews on the Ninja and one of the reviews complained that the Ninja is a pain when you want to add additional ingredients because you have to take off the motor and take off a lid and there was another step that I don't remember. My co-worker agreed that you do need to do all that, but she poo-pooed that review as saying that's really not an issue. Well, I can't vouch for the Ninja, but I can say that adding fruit to the Yonana is very easy. You just pull out the plunger (which you can get a little bit of suction there) and pop in the fruit and then plunge away.Creating the "ice cream" is very quick. I mean, very quick! In less time than it takes to dig frozen real ice cream out of a tub, you can have a Yonana treat. (Well, okay, that might not be totally true as you do need to thaw your frozen fruit first...but take the thawing part out of the equation, you can have the Yonana treat more quickly than real ice cream and without the cussing and swearing.)There is no waste in ingredients with the Yonana. I am always astounded by my son's juicer at how much wasted product is left over. With the Yonana, you get to eat every bit of what goes into it. You will want to disassemble the unit right away, however, because you will find that some edible "ice cream" remains between the blade cover and the blade cone and some in the gasket too, but that's very easy to scrape out, put in the bowl, and enjoy. I did notice that it seems that the first bowl of Yonana gets cheated out of some of their treat and subsequent bowls seem to be more filled. I'm not sure what the reason for that is as it didn't appear that there was fruit left in the plunger. Maybe it's the amount of fruit that remains between the cone cover and blade cone? I don't know, but a solution is to make one big batch and then separate it into portions.The unit is much smaller than I'd expected it to be. It takes up less room than a toaster or a traditional blender or my son's gigantic juicer. It is tall, however. But if you leave it out on a countertop, height isn't an issue. It's the footprint that would be an issue.One thing I discovered that I don't really like about the design of the Yonana is that the spout the "ice cream" comes out is too close to the unit and sometimes the "ice cream" wants to curl back toward the unit and not into your bowl, even though I had the bowl pushed up next to the machine. A simple fix would be for the Yonana designer to make a longer spout. Next Yonana generation maybe. In the meantime, the user can use a higher bowl, or maybe a glass?Overall, am I 100% sold on Yonana? No. I wish I could say I am, but, after tasting my first creation, I think I'd rather just eat the fruit. The concoction does not taste like ice cream - it does, however, have the texture of soft serve ice cream. Oddly, my son, who drank a full 12 ounce glass of grainy juiced carrots without complaint made faces as he ate his banana/peach Yonana. He did eat it all, but I don't think he's going to be asking me to make him another Yonana treat. As for me, I do not like bananas, at all, and a few areas of my banana/berry tasted way too much like banana. (And, yes, I know, you do not need to use the bananas. I made my Yonana treat using just one banana, one half before the berries and one half after.) Am I going to ship my Yonana back? No. I'm going to give it more of a try. First off, a lot of the reviews and the Yonana owner's manual/recipe books all say to use ripe bananas. I didn't have ripe bananas. I just froze the bananas that were the most banged up looking and they really weren't all that ripe. So I'm hoping that bananas that are truly ripe and not simply banged up will make a difference. Also, I intend to give it a try using just fruit without the bananas. I am also hoping that in time I will move beyond the desire for my concoctions to be ice cream and that I'll just be happy that I'm having a Weight Watchers zero point treat. My husband also said that he thinks the Yonana will be a nice cold treat come summer when it's hot.So, do I recommend the Yonana? Yes, I do. In fact, despite my not being sold on the taste of my first creation, I do intend on sharing my Yonana experience with my Weight Watchers group as well as my friends. Like a few of the reviews said, if you want ice cream, go buy ice cream. If you want a good, healthy, zero point treat, then, by all means, get a Yonana. It's a good machine that does exactly what it's meant to do.Follow up - I tried again and used just a berry mix (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and blackberries) and four slices of peaches (no bananas). Very good. Even better, I mixed in a container of blueberry Fiber One yogurt (just one Weight Watchers point). Now, that was a good mixture that I can easily eat multiple times. It is runny, like soft serve ice cream that's melted, but, boy did it taste good.

This is one of the best appliances in my kitchen. I am so happy with my purchase of this Yonanas machine. It is the regular machine, but I chose the mint green color because it is unique.This banana “ice cream” is very satisfying and scoops like regular ice cream without the guilt.So far, I have made banana.pineapple and strawberry/banana, and both came out delicious. I will try an Elvis Presley favorite soon- peanut-butter/banana.The machine came with a recipe book, but I make up my own flavors and try new things.This thing can also make sorbet. The parts are very easy to field strip for easy cleaning. The great thing is, you can save all the old bananas from going in the trash and turn them into a yummy dessert. I often find piles of over-riped bananas in the market for under a dollar a bunch. A very great invention from Dole Foods.

This is the best gadget I ever bought. I use frozen mangoes to make a mango sorbet, which is delicious and much healthier than ice cream which I love. I am substituting the Yonanas for ice cream, and it fulfills the ice cream desire. It is easy to clean - just clean it as soon as you are done making the Yonana and it is quick and easy.