the vitamin has changed my life! Before vitamin, I rarely ate fruits. The only vegetables I ate were when we managed to cook some with dinner, or did a stir fry. Now I get a full days' worth of fruit, and some veggies as well, in the morning! Everything is pulverized in a smoothie, so I get all the nutrients and the fibre! And smoothies are yummy and filling! And healthy, to boot. And the reason why this is happening when it never happened with my previous blender: because clean up is such a cinch. You may as well bite the bullet and get the best blender on the market now, rather than compromising with a lesser blender and later spending the money on the vitamin. It is well worth every penny.