In another effort to get more protein, fruit, vitamins and more in my diet at breakfast, I was keen on buying a personal blender in January. I debated between the Nutribullet and what I now know is the Tribest Personal Blender.

I say “now know” because at the time, the blender’s manufacturer on the Personal Blender’s pages was listed as Vitamix, which is a little wonky and they have since changed it and added a link pointing to a Tribest page. Seeing as Kunzvital printed their own user manual with Kunzvital branding on a folded A4 paper, I think they were trying to market the Tribest blender as their own creation, which it is not. It ships in a box with Tribest labeling for heaven’s sake.

(Tribest blender re-branded by Kunzvital)

I was a little annoyed that the same blender is available for $89.95 on Amazon with a US plug, while I had to pay 165CHF ($171) to get it. It’s a big, fat, Swiss markup.

I have mixed feelings about how it works, but I like the blender alright. Sometimes I feel like it does a great job of blending and other times I really feel like I am eating my smoothie, which is not cool when it’s spinach leaves or nuts. Last week I was on a date kick and the blender just whirled the dates around the whole time, knocking into the blades, but not breaking down at all.

The blender also advertises that it cuts up ice, but if you stick only ice in here… one cube for example, it does not do well with either the grinding or the mixing blade. But if you put an ice cube in the mix with your spinach, fruit, juice or water and more, it does fine and grinds up well.

In the end, I’m still happy I bought this for now, because my other option was spending over 1000CHF for a Vitamix, which are also a lot more expensive in Switzerland than the US. Maybe I will still get one one day, but I do really like the convenience of washing and using single-use mixing cups for work every morning. I think the Vitamix would be annoying to clean every day. Who knows!

Do you have a special blender for breakfast smoothies?