TY - JFULL AU - F. Z. Yekeler and H. Ozyurek and C. E. Tamer PY - 2013/8/ TI - A Functional Beverage: Lemonade T2 - International Journal of Nutrition and Food Engineering SP - 616 EP - 620 VL - 7 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/16358 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 79, 2013 N2 - Fruits and vegetables are the essentials of a healthy diet, mainly because of their antioxidant properties contributing to disease blockage especially for some certain types of cancer. Being a favourite fruit, citrus are produced for economic and commercial purposes worldwide. Particularly, lemon fruit (Citrus limon L.), has an important place in export products of Turkey. Lemon has a great importance on human nutrition with regard to being a source of nutrients, flavonoids, vitamin C and minerals. It is used for food flavouring and pickling and also processed for lemonade. By processing citrus into fruit juices, consumption may increase and also become easier. Like many fruits and vegetables lemons are cheap and abundant during harvesting period, while they are quite expensive in other seasons. Lemon juice and concentrate production allows consumers to get benefits from lemon fruit in any time of the year. Lemonade is getting in to the focus of consumers’ attention preferring non-carbonated drinks. The demand of healthy, convenient functional foods affects consumer trends through innovative products. For this reason, lemonade could be enriched with different natural herb extracts such as ginger (Zingiber officinale), linden (Tilia cordata), and mint (Mentha piperita). ER -