Bebidas mistas de frutas e vegetais no contexto de alimentação saudável: uma revisão de literatura

Abstract

This study aimed to conduct a literature review on mixed fruit and vegetable drinks and their main components in the context of food consumption. The present study is a narrative review elaborated from the consultation in different databases, such as Web of science and Science Direct databases. It was chosen to search free terms. The terms juice, drinks were combined with the words fruits “AND” vegetables to locate studies on both themes. Subsequently, in order to select studies with the main components of mixed drinks, the free terms "citrus limon", "Malus domestica", "Ananas comosus", "Cucumis savitus", "Brassica oleracea", "Spinacia oleracea" ”,“ Zingiber officinale ”and “Mentha ssp ”. The inclusion criterion of the studies was based on the selection of materials that aimed to study the effects of vegetable consumption alone, which are the main ingredients of mixed drinks and included articles that used the mixed drink or juices with claim “detox” in the studies. The direction of the selected studies is related to the prospecting of antioxidant activity and, although the drinks composition is diverse, the use of apple, cabbage and cucumber as ingredients of the preparations stand out. Plant foods are important sources of nutrients for food. The mixed drinks, juices or smoothies presented variable composition that determines the sensory attributes, physicochemical composition, bioactive compounds and antioxidant activity.