Abstract. Considering the characteristics and charitable qualities of the Grape Juice Concentrate (JUC) as a nutrient food, and the poor eating habits that our actual society suffers, it was thought for this work the application of simple tools and practices enabling of benefit to health through the use of regional and natural products. The objective of this research was to formulate and develop a health food of a stick type to JUC based. Two types of "stick" with different formulations, which were assessed by affective sensory tests regarding the acceptability and the degree of preference of these, were developed. For sensory evaluation, panel of untrained judges randomly selected was settled. From the evaluated, there were not significant differences between the sticks acceptance, this paper proposes to continue improving formulations JUC based product, so as to have in the future with a highly nutritious product that can be incorporated in the diet of an ordinary citizen and Food Assistance Programs developed at country level.
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