Use cool fruit and liquids for smoothies; ice and frozen ingredients are permitted only where your model’s instructions allow them, and some models require fresh ingredients instead.
Applies to
- NutriBullet Portable Blender / Portable Blender McLaren
- NutriBullet Flip Stainless
- NutriBullet Flex Portable / Flex Portable McLaren
- NutriBullet GO
- NutriBullet Flip Tritan
For recipe ideas, browse the official NutriBullet recipe libraries for Australia and New Zealand. Choose recipes for your exact machine and attachment, and follow your user guide’s hot-ingredient and ice limits.
NutriBullet Portable Blender / Portable Blender McLaren
Use cool fruit and liquids for smoothies, including frozen ingredients or ice with sufficient liquid; keep ingredients at 21°C or cooler and below MAX.
What can I put in the Cup?
- Use room-temperature or refrigerated ingredients at 21°C or cooler.
- Remove pits and seeds from stone fruit before blending; hard pits can damage the blade.
- Remove utensils and every non-food item from the Cup before starting.
- Frozen ingredients are allowed with sufficient liquid; do not overfill with ice.
- Use ice in a smoothie with liquid, not as a load of ice to crush on its own.
- Keep all liquid and solid ingredients below MAX. Never run the blender empty.
Which ingredients must I leave out?
- Do not blend hot or warm ingredients. Heat creates pressure inside the sealed Cup.
- Do not blend carbonated or effervescent ingredients: soda, baking powder, baking soda, yeast, some batters, cake mix, dry ice or anything else that becomes bubbly. Check supplement and protein-powder labels because some contain effervescent ingredients.
How should I handle the finished mixture?
- Do not run consecutive blending cycles totalling more than one minute.
- Wait until the blades have stopped before opening the drinking lid or removing the Cup.
- Do not leave blended foods sealed in the Cup for prolonged periods; they can spoil, ferment and pressurise the Cup.
- If the Cup feels hot or warm, leave it alone and keep others away; do not remove it from the Motor Base or blend again. Cool for at least 30 minutes, longer if still warm. Once cool, open the Lid slowly away from your face and body and pour into another vessel.
NutriBullet Flip Stainless
Use cool fruit and liquids for smoothies, including ice or frozen ingredients with sufficient liquid; keep ice to no more than 25% of the Cup’s total volume and the whole mixture below the 475 mL MAX line.
What can I put in the Cup?
- Use room-temperature or refrigerated ingredients at 21°C or cooler.
- Remove pits and seeds from stone fruit before blending; hard pits can damage the blade.
- Remove utensils and every non-food item from the Cup before starting.
- Use ice or frozen ingredients with enough liquid for the mixture to move; do not use the Flip only as an ice crusher. NEVER submerge the entire Motor Base, Blade, and Lid in water.
- Keep ice to no more than 25% of the Cup’s total volume, follow the minimum-liquid mark, and keep the entire mixture below the 475 mL MAX fill line. Do not run the Cup empty.
Which ingredients must I leave out?
- Do not blend hot or warm ingredients. Heat creates pressure inside the sealed Cup.
- Do not blend carbonated or effervescent ingredients: soda, baking powder, baking soda, yeast, some batters, cake mix, dry ice or anything else that becomes bubbly. Check supplement and protein-powder labels because some contain effervescent ingredients.
How should I handle the finished mixture?
- Do not run consecutive blending cycles totalling more than one minute.
- Wait until the blades have stopped before opening the drinking lid or removing the Cup.
- Do not leave blended foods sealed in the Cup for prolonged periods; they can spoil, ferment and pressurise the Cup.
- Open the Flip-Top Lid slowly with the drinking spout pointing away from your face and body to release pressure; keep clear of escaping steam, gas or food.
NutriBullet Flex Portable / Flex Portable McLaren
Use cool fruit and liquids for blending, with enough liquid and without overfilling the Cup with ice; keep ingredients at 21°C or cooler and below MAX.
What can I put in the Cup?
- Use room-temperature or refrigerated ingredients at 21°C or cooler.
- Remove pits and seeds from stone fruit before blending; hard pits can damage the blade.
- Remove utensils and every non-food item from the Cup before starting.
- Use enough liquid and do not overfill the Cup with ice.
- Keep all ingredients below the MAX line, and do not run the blender empty.
Which ingredients must I leave out?
- Do not blend hot or warm ingredients. Heat creates pressure inside the sealed Cup.
- Do not blend carbonated or effervescent ingredients: soda, baking powder, baking soda, yeast, some batters, cake mix, dry ice or anything else that becomes bubbly. Check supplement and protein-powder labels because some contain effervescent ingredients.
How should I handle the finished mixture?
- Do not run consecutive blending cycles totalling more than one minute.
- Wait until the blades have stopped before opening the drinking lid or removing the Cup.
- Do not leave blended foods sealed in the Cup for prolonged periods; they can spoil, ferment and pressurise the Cup.
- If the Cup feels warm or hot, leave it where it is, keep others away, do not separate it from the Motor Base and do not blend again. Let it cool for at least 30 minutes, longer if still warm; then open the Sip Lid slowly away from your face and body and pour into another vessel.
NutriBullet GO
Use fresh fruit such as strawberries, kiwi, banana, blueberries or avocado with recipe liquids such as milk, juice or coconut water; do not use ice or frozen fruit and vegetables.
Which foods suit NutriBullet GO?
- Use only cool or room-temperature foods and liquids intended for consumption; remove non-food items from the Cup.
- Use fresh fruit prepared as in the guide’s smoothie recipes: quartered strawberries or soft kiwi, sliced banana, blueberries or quartered avocado.
- The guide’s recipes use milk or alternatives, yoghurt, fruit juice, coconut water, protein powder, matcha powder and a small quantity of ready-made peanut butter. Add ingredients in the recipe’s order, beginning with the liquid.
- Remove fruit and vegetable rinds and peels, and take pits and seeds out of stone fruit.
- Keep the combined ingredients below the 300 mL MAX line and leave a little room at the top.
What must stay out of NutriBullet GO?
- Do not blend ice, frozen fruit or frozen vegetables: NutriBullet GO is not designed for frozen items.
- Do not put hot liquids into the sealed blending vessel or blend carbonated drinks.
How do I finish and store a blend?
- Blend for the automatic 30-second cycle; repeat once if a guide recipe needs a smoother result. Do not exceed two consecutive cycles or one minute continuously.
- If overfilling stops the blades, switch off and wait for all moving parts to stop. Invert the assembly, detach the Cup, remove excess food, then reattach with the contents below MAX before resuming.
- If the vessel is warm, allow it to cool before detaching the blade assembly; slowly untwist with the opening facing away from your body.
- Release internal pressure before leaving any mixture in the sealed vessel; fruit and vegetable sugars can ferment and build gas pressure.
NutriBullet Flip Tritan
Use room-temperature or refrigerated food at 21°C or cooler with sufficient liquid, including stone fruit with its pits and seeds removed and ice limited to 25% of the Cup’s total volume; keep the whole mixture below the 475 mL MAX line.
How should I fill the Flip Tritan Cup?
- Remove utensils and all non-food items; check that stone-fruit pits and seeds have been removed.
- Follow the Cup’s minimum-liquid mark and leave space for the mixture to move; do not run the Cup empty or overfill it with ice.
- Tighten the Motor Base, Blade, and Lid onto the Cup, snap the Flip-Top Lid closed and start the cycle with the Motor Base on top to reduce blade blockage. NEVER submerge the entire Motor Base, Blade, and Lid in water.
- Once blending starts, turn the blender over so the ingredients reach the blades; its normal cycle lasts 30 seconds, and consecutive cycles must not exceed one minute in total.
Which ingredients must I leave out?
- Do not blend hot or warm ingredients, carbonated drinks or effervescent ingredients that release gas.
- Examples to exclude are soda, baking powder, baking soda, yeast, some batters, cake mix and dry ice; check protein-powder ingredients because some are effervescent.
How should I handle the finished mixture?
- Wait for complete blade stillness before opening the Lid or removing the Motor Base, Blade, and Lid.
- Open the Flip-Top Lid slowly with the drinking spout pointing away from your face and body; be mindful of escaping steam, gas or food.
- Do not leave blended food sealed for prolonged periods because it can spoil, ferment and build pressure.
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The full steps for this model are in its user guide: NutriBullet Portable Blender / Portable Blender McLaren user guide (PDF)
The full steps for this model are in its user guide: NutriBullet Flip Stainless user guide (PDF)
The full steps for this model are in its user guide: NutriBullet Flex Portable / Flex Portable McLaren user guide (PDF)
The full steps for this model are in its user guide: NutriBullet GO user guide (PDF)
The full steps for this model are in its user guide: NutriBullet Flip Tritan user guide (PDF)