A juice extractor includes a housing, a lid for covering the housing and enclosing an interior thereof and a generally cylindrical food chute projecting into the housing through the lid. The chute defines an unrestricted interior channel from an open upper end thereof to an open base end thereof for receiving and passing foodstuff therethrough. The chute has an internal diameter of approximately three and a half inches and a length from the upper end to the base end of at least approximately eight inches. A food pusher is slidably receivable within the interior channel of the chute and is movable between a disengaged position, wherein the food pusher is not engaged with the chute and the interior channel remains unrestricted and continuously open between the upper end and the base end, and an engaged position, wherein the food pusher is slidably received within the interior channel of the chute.
