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Abstract
Knowing the true levels of nutrients and dietary bioactives in fruit juices at the point of consumption is key to properly understand their potential health benefits. The objective was to characterise the vitamin C and flavanone content in commercial orange juices consumed in Europe, compared with fresh-squeezed juices. Commercial juices were a rich source of vitamin C (>30% of the Nutrient Reference Value). Vitamin C in fresh-squeezed juices, at the end of their shelf-life, remained 33% higher than the levels found in the commercial juices. Flavanones had similar values from both commercial and fresh juices, except for fresh samples stored for 48 h, where fresh juices had higher values (22.36 mg/100 mL). Thus, orange juices preserve their bioactive compounds during storage, with very little influence of the brand, country, industrial process or storage conditions. Main bioactive compounds in commercial juices are present at nutritionally significant levels to the freshly-squeezed ones.
Acknowledgements
P.S.-B. was supported by the grant for the recall of the Spanish university system for the training of young doctors (Margarita Salas, 04912/2021) funded by the European Union-Next Generation EU and the Ministry of Universities of Spain. F.J.-S. was supported by an FPU (FPU18/00332) grant of the Fellowship Program from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities (MICIU).
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