Advances in the pectin production process using novel extraction techniques: A review

The heteropolysaccharide known as pectin has found a myriad of functional and nutritive uses within the food and, increasingly, in other related industries. Extraction is a critical unit operation in recovering this compound from its in situ state in the cell walls of various plant-based food processing side streams. Although well established, growing demand has exposed certain inadequacies of the mainstream pectin extraction technique—notably...