A juice extractor comprising a high-speed rotatable centrifuge basket having a filter in the shape of an inverted frustum of a cone with an open top of larger diameter than the base which is a pot part with cutting teeth on its substantially flat inner bottom face and connected to the base of said filter and a food feeding duct situated substantially perpendicular to and over a portion of the bottom face, wherein the peripheral wall of the pot part is constructed in a manner that the top edge of the wall is situated at a higher position than the bottom face and the lower end of the food feeding duct; the wall of the pot part diverges slightly with its generator having an angle alpha of 0 DEG < alpha <10 DEG with respect to the axis of the rotation of the food basket.
