Constraints Goal Lower limit Upper limit Pomegranate juice (ml) maximize 50 75 Orange juice (ml) is in range 25 50 Ginger juice (ml) is in range 3 5 Vitamin -C (mg/100ml) maximize 29.12 42.23 % DPPH inhibition maximize 25 47 Total phenol (mg/100TAE) maximize 135 230 Viscosity index (g.sec) is in range 2.15 5.76 Consistency (g.) is in range 430.34 506.25 Cohesiveness (g.) is in range 12.567 18.778 Colour maximize 6 8.5 Flavour maximize 5.9 8.5 Overall acceptability maximize 6.3 7.9

Lower weight = 1, upper weight = 1 and importance= 3

Table 2: Levels of responses fixed for optimization of blend juices.