Is juice as good as whole fruit?

Juicers work by extracting the juice and some pulp from fruits and/or vegetables. Freshly squeezed juice is great for getting the vitamins, minerals, beneficial plant chemicals (phytochemicals), and carbohydrates that are extracted from a whole fruit. However, you won?t get much of the fiber, and depending on the fruit, you may not get any of it. Fiber [2] aids in the digestive process. It acts sort of like a scrub brush for your intestines and speeds up the movement of waste through your system. It can also fill you up, and may help protect against certain cancers. Fiber in fruit is found in the membranes between sections, the white part around the outside (as in oranges and grapefruits), the seeds, the skin, and the peels. For example, orange juice contains no fiber (even if it has pulp) because the fiber is found in the membrane, which is lost during the process of juicing.