Processed product of Pomegranate (Pomegranate Juice)

• Pomegranate juice makes a delicious drink

• On whole fruit basis the juice yield is about 42% while from grains the yield is about 70%

• The juice can be extracted by using a spiral-type screw press without crushing the seeds
• The juice is clarified  by heating in flash pasteurizer at 79-82 0C cooling, settling settling or decanting

• The clear juice can be preserved by heat treatment or by using chemicals (600 ppm sodium benzoate)

• The use of sulphur dioxide is banned for pomegranate due to loss of colour by bleaching action of SO2
• After heating at 80 oC it is filled into bottles while still hot. The bottles are crown corked and pasterurized at 800 C for 30 minutes

• The juice is highly nutritious and is recommended for patients suffering from gastric troubles

• It containes16.2 % TSS and 0.35% acidity; total sugars, 12.93; reducing sugars, 12.65 and non-reducing sugars, 0.28% and 9.23 mg/100g ascorbic acid