Microbial Quality of Hand-Made Fresh Fruit Juice in BandarAbbas Shopping Centers, Iran

Fresh fruit juice is one of the best drinks which contains minerals and vitamins besides its appealing nature as a good source of water.Whoever does the microbial quality of fresh fruit juice not meet the standard level,it can play a large part in food transmission diseases. In this cross-sectional study, all of 58 fruit juice. The Samples were then tested for total Coliform, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus, yeasts and molds. The results obtained showed that 142 case out of 146 samples were contaminated by microorganisims. All of Carrot and mango juices were contaminated. The mean contamination rate of Coliform bacteria, Mesophilic bacteria, Escherichia coli and yeasts in samples were detected as 86.2, 53.2, 57 and 56.6 percents respectively. 97.3 percents of samples did not have a goodmicrobial quality for human consumption. If consumption of fresh fruit juices will cause the consumer at risk of food borne diseases, all the natural benefits of them in terms of richness in minerals and vitamins will waste.Therefore it can be concluded that the natural benefits of frash fruit juice would be under question due to their low level microbial quality which move people to the high risk of food born diseases.