Characterization of Pectin

It requires either monovalent or divalent cations to form a gel. 

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Lopes da Silva, J. A. L. 1994. Rheological characterization of pectin and pectin- galactomaiman dispersions and gel. Ph.D thesis, Eseola Superior de Biotecnologia, Porto, Portugal. 

Castaldo, D., Quagliuolo, L., Servillo, L., Balestrieri, C. and Giovane, A. 1989. Isolation and characterization of pectin methylesterase from apple fruit, J. Food Sci., 54(3) 653-655, 673. 

Michel, F., Thibault, J.-F., Mercier, C., Heitz, F. and Pouillade, F. 1985. Extraction and characterization of pectins from sugar beet pulp, J. Food Sci., 50 1499-1502. 

Eva Hrabarova works at the Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovakia. Her research interests focus on the study of preparation of cellulose derivatives, characterization of pectins/pectates, hyaluronan degradation, isolation and characterization of recombinant proteins such as GFP. 

Ferro, R. Martha, L. Castelblanco, R. Extraction and characterization of pectin from two varieties of guava ipsidium guajava L.). In Chemical Abstracts, Vol. 71, 1969, 48482b. 

Our work has focused on high methoxyl pectin. In our studies we have investigated the preparation of plasticized and unplasticized pectin films, both with starch and with poly(vinyl alcohol), and characterized them using dynamic mechanical analysis, tensile measurements, scanning electron microscopy, solubility, and Fourier transfer infirared spectroscopy (4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10). We have also investigated the extrusion and characterization of pectin/starch blends (11). 

CHARACTERIZATION OF PECTIN DERIVED FROM DIFFERENT FRUITS... 

Fishman, M. L Chau, H. K Hoagland, P Ayyad, K. Characterization of pectin, flash-extracted from orange albedo by microwave heating, imder pressme. Carbohydrate Research, v. 323, p. 126-138, 1999. 

Liew, S.Q Chin, N.L Yusof, Y.A. Extraction and Characterization of Pectin from Passion Fruit Peels. Agriculture and Agricultural Science Procedia, v. 2, p. 231-236. 2014. 

Pagan, J Ibarz, A Llorca, M Pagan, A Barbosa-Canovas, G. V. Extraction and characterization of pectin from stored peach pomace. Food Research International, v. 34, p. 605-612, 2001. 

Ele-Ekouna, J.-R, Pau-Roblot, C., Courtois, B., and Courtois, J. (2011). Chemical characterization of pectin from green tea (Camellia sinensis), Carbohydr. Polym., 83(3), 1232-1239. 

Kumar, A., and Chauhan, G. S. (2010). Extraction and characterization of pectin from apple pomace and its evaiuation as lipase (steapsin) inhibitor, Carbohydr. Polym., 82(2), 454-459. 

Mollea, C., Chiampo, F. Conti, R. (2008). Extraction and characterization of pectins from cocoa husks A preliminary study. Food Chemistry, 107, 3, 1353-1356. 

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