Consumers are increasingly aware of health benefits and risks
associated with food consumption and tend to opt for healthy foods
that have been subjected to less extreme treatments (less heat and
chill damage), with lower levels of salts, fats, acids, and sugars and/
or the complete or the partial removal of chemically synthesized
additives. Thermal processing ensures the safety and shelf life of
fruit juices, but can result in the loss of this claimed sensory and
nutritional quality. In the last decade, emerging preservation procedures
have been included as hurdles in combined preservation
systems to ensure food safety and to retain or improve food quality
(Alzamora et al., 2011). This type of processing techniques for food
preservation reduce microbial load and at the same time, allow
better retention of product flavour, texture, colour and nutrient
content than comparable conventional treatments.