The study of the production of mixture of Carrot juice and ice cream containing Bifidobacterium lactis and Lactobacillus casei

This study was performed to produce a probiotic carrot juice-ice cream beverage. Designed in a random factorial CRD manner. For this purpose, both Lactobacillus casei and Bifidobacterium lactis (at 108 and 109 cfu/ml levels) were added to beverage formulation. The samples were stored at -5ºC for 21 days. Survival of bacteria, pH, titrable acidity (%), beta-carotene (%), total solids contents (%), phenolic components (µg/ml) and DPPH (%) were measured at 1, 6, 11, 16 days of storage. The number of viable cells were significantly decreased during the storage time. However, the number of L. casei and Bf. lactis were in the recommended range (106 cfu/ml) until last day of storage. The highest number of viable cells was for Bf. lactis. By increment the probiotics levels, the pH and total solids values were decreased. Treatments and storage time did not show any significant effect on the acidity of probiotic carrot juice-ice cream. The highest amounts of phenolic components were for 109 cfu/ml L. casei and 108 Bf. Lactis. During storage period, the phenolic compounds and antioxidant activity of all samples were significantly decreased. Increment the concentration of L. casei in beverage formulation leads to decreased DPPH percentage inhibitory, while, by increasing the Bf. lactis in samples, the antiradical activity was increased. Samples containing 109 cfu/ml L. casei and Bf. Lactis had the highest amounts of beta-carotene. According to obtained results, treatment E which contained 109 cfu/ml bifidobacteriun lactis was the best among other treatments.