VEGETABLE AND FRUIT JUICE CAPABLE OF BEING STORED FOR LONG TIME WITHOUT ENZYME INACTIVATION, AND METHOD OF PRODUCING BEVERAGE AND FROZEN PRODUCT CONTAINING VEGETABLE AND FRUIT JUICE

摘要

To provide vegetable and fruit juice requiring no addition of preservative, having a sufficient amount of enzymes useful for human bodies such as catalase and ascorbate peroxidase, vitamins, minerals, and flavor components, a beverage containing the vegetable and fruit juice, or a frozen product thereof capable of being stored for a long time.SOLUTION: There is provided a method of producing vegetable and fruit juice without enzyme inactivation, the method using a first step of crushing and milling harvested vegetable and fruit to extract juice, and a second step of passing the extracted liquid with the enzyme activity obtained in the first step remaining, through a sterilization filter having a hole diameter of 0.01 to 1.0 μm to perform sterilization and filtering and obtain a sterilized and filtered liquid product. Also, the method additionally uses a third step of adding and mixing one or two or more selected from water, fruit juice, refreshing drink, or saccharides into the liquid product obtained in the second step. Furthermore, the method additionally uses a step of freezing the liquid product obtained in the second step or third step.SELECTED DRAWING: None