The Ninja Foodi Power Nutri DUO, also sold as the 'Ninja Foodi Smoothie Bowl Maker', is a compact personal blender. It comes with a pair of 24-ounce jars and to-go lids for single-serve smoothies and other drinks. There's also a 14-ounce 'Smoothie Bowl Maker' jar with rotating arms inside of it meant for thicker mixtures. Like most personal blenders, it can't hot blend and has only one speed setting.
Our Verdict
The Ninja Foodi Power Nutri DUO is good for multi-purpose use. With both its 24-ounce and 14-ounce jars, it maintains a similarly fantastic performance making silky smoothies. It can also make smooth nut butter as well as snow-like crushed ice. It can't hot blend, though. On the upside, it's very easy to clean.
- Easy to clean.
- Makes a silky blend with fibrous ingredients.
- Makes snow-like crushed ice.
- Can't hot blend.
- Loud.
The Ninja Foodi Power Nutri DUO is superb for single-serve smoothies. The 24-ounce jars make an exceptionally smooth puree with ingredients like kale, so it's ideal for silky green smoothies. There are resealable lids included for the jars, which are easy to clean by hand or in the dishwasher.
- Easy to clean.
- Makes a silky blend with fibrous ingredients.
- Loud.
The Ninja Foodi Power Nutri DUO is excellent for multiple servings of smoothies. Even if you fill the jars to their maximum capacity, it makes a silky smoothie with fibrous ingredients. You can prepare two small smoothie servings in one jar, but their capacities are too small to easily serve a crowd. On the plus side, there are two jars with to-go lids included.
- Easy to clean.
- Makes a silky blend with fibrous ingredients.
- Loud.
The Ninja Foodi Power Nutri DUO is decent for ice-crushing. It can make snow-like crushed ice in less than a couple of minutes, which is perfect for any frozen drink. The blender itself is also well built and easy to clean.
- Easy to clean.
- Makes snow-like crushed ice.
- Loud.
The Ninja Foodi Power Nutri DUO can't hot blend, so if you want to use it for soup, your ingredients need to cool down first. It's fantastic for blending fibrous ingredients like kale or broccoli into a silky puree, but the biggest jars only hold 24 ounces, so you'll probably need to blend in batches.
- Easy to clean.
- Can't hot blend.
- Loud.
The Ninja Foodi Power Nutri DUO is acceptable for professional use. While it can't hot blend, and its personal-sized jars limit you to small servings, it makes excellent blends. It can make smooth and spreadable almond butter as well as snow-like crushed ice and silky purees of fibrous ingredients. It's also very easy to clean.
- Easy to clean.
- Makes a silky blend with fibrous ingredients.
- Makes snow-like crushed ice.
- Can't hot blend.
- Loud.
Changelog
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Updated Mar 28, 2025:
Compared its to-go lids to the Beast Mega 1200's in the lids box.
- Updated Jul 14, 2023: Noted that its blades are dishwasher-safe, unlike the Smeg Personal Blender PBF01's.
- Updated Oct 05, 2022: Compared its noise level to the Beast Health Blender's.
- Updated Sep 01, 2022: Revised text to match results updated to Test Bench 1.0.
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Differences Between Sizes And Variants
The Ninja Foodi Power Nutri DUO (SS101), also called the Ninja Foodi Smoothie Bowl Maker and Nutrient Extractor, comes in one color: 'Silver.' You can see the label for the model we tested here.
There's also a variant (CO101B) that's only available at Costco (US). It's identical, except that it comes with an 18-ounce Power Nutri Bowl (or Smoothie Bowl Maker) instead of a 14-ounce one. While you may get different results with the bigger jar, we expect this variant to perform similarly to our unit.
If you come across any other variants of this blender, let us know in the discussions, and we'll update our review.
Popular Blender Comparisons
The Ninja SS101 is a personal blender. It comes with three personal jars, two of which have a 24-ounce capacity. It also comes with a 14-ounce 'Power Nutri Bowl' or 'Smoothie Bowl Maker' that uses manually rotating arms to help push food towards the blades. Unlike many other personal blenders, it has no problem making smooth nut butter or snow-like crushed ice. It's also outstandingly easy to clean.
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The Ninja Foodi Power Nutri DUO is better than the Ninja Nutri-Blender Pro with Auto-iQ. The Foodi is better built, blends recipes like smoothies more quickly, and is much easier to use for thick recipes like nut butter. However, the Nutri-Blender is much quieter.
The Ninja Foodi Power Nutri DUO is better than the nutribullet Ultra. The Ninja makes a smoother blend with common smoothie ingredients like leafy greens and fruit and processes these ingredients more quickly. It can crush ice without liquid in the jar. It's also easier to clean, and its controls are more convenient. However, the nutribullet is a good option for smoothies, too, and it's significantly quieter when running.
The Ninja Foodi Power Nutri DUO is better than the Ninja Nutri-Blender Plus for most purposes. The DUO has a significantly better build quality and makes silkier smoothies as well as crushed ice with a better texture. It's also much easier to clean by hand and has buttons for a few preset modes that act as timers. On the other hand, the Nutri-Blender Plus is also a good option for making smoothies, and some may prefer its smaller, more lightweight design.
The Ninja Foodi Power Nutri DUO is a significantly better personal blender than the Ninja Nutri Ninja Auto-iQ. The DUO feels better built and comes with two 24-ounce jars as well as one 14-ounce jar that has two manually rotating blades to help move food toward the blades. It's better at processing hard ingredients like nuts and fibrous ingredients like kale.
Test Results
It's a short blender as its motor base isn't very tall. While it still takes up some room on your counter, you can easily store it away in a cupboard, and the jar is removable.
It has a good build quality. Its parts are made of plastic that varies in thickness. The motor base feels a little thin and not very premium. However, the jars are thick in comparison, and one jar has a rotating arm mechanism, which helps push food away from the jar's walls and towards the vortex.
It comes with a pair of 24-ounce personal jars with to-go lids. There's also a 14-ounce jar included that Ninja calls a 'Power Nutri Bowl' or 'Smoothie Bowl Maker'. It's meant for thicker mixtures and has arms inside of it that you can rotate with a knob on top to help keep the ingredients moving.
The jars and lids are made of plastic and are top-rack dishwasher-safe.
Its blade assembly has eight sharp blades. Unlike many personal blenders' blade assemblies, like the Smeg Personal Blender PBF01 or the NutriBullet Pro 900, it's dishwasher-safe.
The blade assembly screws onto the jars like a lid before docking on the motor base. To-go lids are included for each jar, plus a storage lid. If you prefer drinking your smoothie from a straw, you might prefer a blender that comes with one included, like the Beast Mega 1200.
It has a power cable long enough to reach an outlet near your kitchen counter. However, it doesn't have a stowaway compartment to hide the power cord when not in use.
- Motor base
- 14 oz jar (Power Nutri Bowl or Smoothie Bowl Maker) with storage lid
- 2x 24 oz jar
- 2x drinking lid with spout
- Blade assembly
- Recipe guide
- User guide
It's superb for small batches of fibrous ingredients. Using one of the 24-ounce jars, it quickly makes a silky smooth puree with ingredients like kale.
It's also fantastic for processing bigger batches of fibrous ingredients. If you fill the 24-ounce jar to its maximum capacity, it easily liquifies fibrous ingredients like kale.
This blender is outstanding for crushing ice. It takes about 20 seconds to crush four ice cubes into snow-like crushed ice, ideal for frozen desserts and slushies.
It makes outstanding nut butter. It takes less than two minutes using its 14-ounce 'Smoothie Bowl Maker' jar. Thanks to its 'built-in tamper' feature, you can twist the knob on top to rotate arms inside the jar to help incorporate all the ingredients. The result is a smooth butter that's spreadable on toast. A few other Ninja blenders come with jars with a similar design, including the Ninja TWISTi High-Speed Blender DUO, a full-size blender with a 34-ounce version that works very well for nut butter.
It's a loud blender. Even though most blenders are noisy, other personal blenders like the NutriBullet Pro+ and the Beast Health Blender are quieter.
Like most personal blenders, it has only one speed setting, so you can't adjust the speed to suit your recipe.
There are two sets of blending programs: one for the 24-ounce jars and the other for the 14-ounce jar. These programs don't control the speed but act as a timer. For the 24-ounce jars, the 'Extract' setting lasts 75 seconds, and the 'Smoothie' setting lasts 55 seconds. When you're using the 'Smoothie Bowl Maker', you can choose between 'Spread' which lasts 45 seconds, and 'Bowl', which lasts 30 seconds. You can also use the 'Start/Stop' button to blend continuously.