Fruit Juices: Their Nutritional Significance, Effect of Storage and Correlation with Certain Disease

This review deals with the numerous nutritional and health benefits of fruit juices intake. It reviews nutritional significance and nutritive values of different fruit juices and describe the correlation of fruit juices with certain diseases. Nutritive value of fruit juices as per the USDA nutrient data base are summarized. The effect of storage condition on the chemical attributes of the fruit juices are discussed. Data from various nutritional studies, which provide evidence regarding the physio-chemical and microbial characteristics of fruit juices are also summarized.