Plant-Based Fermented Beverages and Key Emerging Processing Technologies

Plant-based beverages have become a hot spot in the development of functional foods with the increasing demand for nutrition and health food in recent years. However, common plant-based beverages have been plagued with poor sensory, flavor and stability. To solve these problems, fermentation of beneficial active strains (lactobacillus and yeasts) and non-thermal processing techniques were studied. Fermentation and non-thermal processing technologies had significant advantages in improving the flavor and quality of plant-based beverages and in retaining their nutritional properties, respectively. Therefore, this paper provided an overview of plant-based fermented beverages and emerging non-thermal processing technologies.