PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide Cucurbitaceae fruit vegetable juice-containing beverage having excellent flavor well-balanced in acidity and sweetness by improving undesirable flavor such as gourd smell or grassy smell which is specific to the Cucurbitaceae fruit vegetable juice such as melon fruit juice.SOLUTION: In Cucurbitaceae fruit vegetable juice-containing beverage, the content rate of Cucurbitaceae fruit vegetable juice is 0.1-30 mass%, the content rate of salt is 0.001-0.05 mass%, and the citric acid acidity is 0.1-0.2 mass%.COPYRIGHT: (C)2016,JPO&INPIT【課題】メロン果汁などのウリ科果菜汁特有の瓜臭さや青臭さといった好ましくない風味を改善し、酸味と甘みのバランスがとれた良好な風味を有するウリ科果菜汁入り飲料を提供すること。【解決手段】ウリ科果菜汁の含有率が0.1~30質量%、食塩の含有率が0.001~0.05質量%であり、かつクエン酸酸度が0.1~0.2質量%であることを特徴とする、ウリ科果菜汁入り飲料。【選択図】なし
