Pekmez is a traditional Turkish food which is produced from grape and other fruit juices containing high amounts of sugar like apple, carob, plum, watermelon, apricot, sugar beet and
Fig. Boiled grape juice is known as “pekmez” in Turkish. It includes nourishment as in fresh grape and doesn’t include any additives (Şengül et al., 2005). Pekmez is very important energy food and is used as an ingredient in virtually hundred of manufactured foods, mainly in cereal based products such as pekmez havla, pelize, for sweetness, color, flavor and caramelization. It can be assumed as a natural food containing natural sugars such as glucose, galactose and minerals. Also, it is a very important food product due to high amounts of sugar,mineral and organic acid in human nutrition (Karakaya and Artık, 1990; Demirözü et al., 2002; Yoğurtçu and Kamışlı2006). It can be assumed as a natural food containing sugars as glucose, galactose and minerals. It is produced by concen-tration of juice up to 70–80 % soluble solids content. Since pekmez contains high amounts of sugar, mineral and organic
acid, it is a very important product in human nutrition(Bozkurt et al., 1999; Yoğurtçu and Kamışlı, 2006).