PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a beverage containing tomato juice and having reduced grassy smell possessed by the tomato.SOLUTION: The beverage containing the tomato juice is obtained by adding polyphenols thereto to reduce hexanal smell caused by hexanal in the tomato juice. As a result, the grassy smell of the beverage smelled when drinking the beverage can be reduced to enable even a tomato-disliking person to drink the tomato juice beverage easily.COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI