Years of the usage of lactic acid fermentation caused the development of specific fermented foods all around the world. Among them the non-dairy fermented beverages can be listed. The best known in Poland are: sour bread drinks, beet fermented juice and sauerkraut juice. Some of them belong to traditional foods, what is the subject to legal regulations. At the beginning only autochtonic lactic acid bacteria were responsible for the fermentation. Nowadays, for maintaining the repeatable quality, nutritional value and food safety, suitable starter cultures are being often used. The sort of fermentation conditions the chemical properties and pro-health properties of the juice prepared.