Abstract: An object is to provide a novel saccharide-reduced fruit beverage having an improved flavor. According to the present invention, provided is a fruit beverage containing citrus fruit and having a sucrose concentration of 1.4 g/100 mL or less in terms of Brix 11°, in which the beverage has an ethyl ester concentration of 25 to 50 ppb and/or a monoterpene derivative concentration of 600 to 3,000 ppb. The citrus fruit in the present invention can be selected from the group consisting of oranges, grapefruit, and Unshu mikan, and a proportion of a fruit juice in the beverage can be set to 30% or more.

Abstract: An object is to provide a novel saccharide-reduced fruit beverage having an improved flavor and a method for producing the same. According to the present invention, provided is a fruit beverage in which a ratio (saccharide concentration-to-acidity ratio) of a saccharide concentration to an acidity is 0.92 or less with respect to a saccharide concentration-to-acidity ratio of a straight fruit juice, the fruit beverage including: one or more carbohydrate components selected from the group consisting of starch, a starch decomposition product, and trehalose, and a method for producing the fruit beverage of the present invention, the method including: adding the carbohydrate components to a saccharide-reduced fruit juice.