Preparation of health beverage from sweet orange juice blended with Aloevera

Abstract

Maintenance of optimal nutrition and positive health of the population through assured nutrient intake continues to be a national priority for a nation to be healthy strong and productive, the nutritional status of its people must be good in the new millennium we are replacing the upward trained in nutritional an health awareness which has increased the consumer demand for functional food. The present investigation was made with an attempt to develop a beverage by orange juice and addition with herbal medicine aloevera. Treatment T1 was standardized to 95% of orange juice and 5% of aloevera, T2 was standardized to 90% of orange juice and 10% of aloevera, T3 was standardized to 85% of orange juice and 15% of aloevera, physical-chemical analysis was done for estimating its nutritional contents, microbial analysis like SPC (slandered plate count) and coli form count for product safety and organoleptic like (flavour and taste, colour and appearance, consistency) by trained panellist using 9 point hedonic scale. The treatments containing 90% orange juice and 10% aloevera juice score the highest value. Thus based on Physico-chemical, microbial and organoleptic evaluation the treatment can be rated as T2>T0>T1>T3.