Make This High-fibre Fruit Juice at Home!

A new cocktail consisting of lime, stevia and beta-glucans can be added to fruit juice to increase its nutritional value and promote the sensory experience.

To satisfy the desire for something sweet while limiting our consumption of sugar, a natural sweetener called stevia is now being used.

Citron Lime: Benefits and Recipes
Citron lime also known as rough lime or keffir lime is a member of the citrus family of fruits. Citron lime is indicative of its numerous health benefits.

‘Adding healthy fibre and low-calorie sweeteners to fruit juice rich in beneficial vitamins improves the overall nutrient content.’

"From a health point of view, the effects of using stevia have been purely positive," said Line Holler Mielby from Aarhus University in Denmark.

Fibre products that have a positive effect on health include beta-glucans which are naturally occurring in oats, for example.

"Foods should have satisfying sensory characteristics since these characteristics will determine whether the consumer will buy the product again. The product should leave a good all-round impression," Mielby added.

Health Benefits of Stevia
Stevia is a natural sweetener extracted from a native South American plant. There are some possible stevia health benefits but most of all it is great for those watching their weight.

Fruit juice contains a number of beneficial vitamins but often has high sugar and low-fibre contents.

The challenge was to increase the nutritional value of the juice without spoiling the taste.

The Lesser Known Fruits with High Nutrition Value
Some fruits that are less known to the common man today have hundred times more vitamin C, carotenoids, and antioxidants as compared with those in the well known fruits. These underutilized fruits are highly inexpensive too.

A team of scientists devised a solution to the problem of combining sweetness with healthiness by adding stevia for sweetness and beta-glucans for fibre with a dash of lime to adjust the taste.

Adding healthy fibre and low-calorie sweeteners to food will not work if they have a negative effect on the flavour.

Fat Burning Fruits
There are many fat-burning fruits. You can eat a fat-burning diet with the help of these belly fat-burning fruits. Eat them raw or make fat-burning fruit smoothies.

In the study, they used an apple-cherry juice to which varying quantities of lime, beta-glucans and stevia were added. The aim was to characterise the sensory experience of the juice.

The results showed that the addition of lime to the apple-cherry juice could counterbalance the adverse impact on taste of the stevia and beta-glucans.

The taste of lime in the juice concealed not only the aftertaste of stevia but also the smell of staleness and metals imparted by the beta-glucans and improved the experience of drinking fruit juice containing beta-glucans.

Source-IANS