and the degradation of anthocyanins by the hydrogen peroxide generated from the ascorbic acid oxidation (Jackman and Smith, 1992, Lopes et al., 2007 and Sun et al., 2011).3.4. Antioxidant capacity stabilityThe initial antioxidant capacity in CAE juices was of 2.4 mg of VCE/100 mL (Fig. 4).