Lab color notation system (McLaren, 1980). The instrument was calibrated with a white standard tile (L = 96.94, a = +0.18, b = +1.89). A glass Petri dish (52 mm diameter) containing pomegranate juice blend or fermented beverage was placed above a white tile and the CIELab values were determined (Giner et al., 2013). Hue angle (h) was calculated from tan (b/a) and Chroma, color intensity or saturation (C) was calculated as (a 2+ b2)1/2.