The food sector includes several large industries such as canned food, pasta, flour, frozen
products, and beverages. Those industries transform agricultural raw materials into added …

Pomegranate peel has substantial amounts of phenolic compounds, such as hydrolysable
tannins (punicalin, punicalagin, ellagic acid, and gallic acid), flavonoids (anthocyanins and …

Pectin, due to its simple and cytocompatible gelling mechanism, has been recently exploited
for different biomedical applications including drug delivery, gene delivery, wound healing …

A central composite design was used to determine effects of pH (2.0–4.5), extraction
temperature (70–90° C) and time (120–240 min) on the yield, degree of methoxylation (DM) …

Recent rapid growth of the world's population has increased food demands. This
phenomenon poses a great challenge for food manufacturers in maximizing the existing …

Pectins are members of the more complex class of high molecular weight
heteropolysaccharides. They consist mainly of (1→ 4)-linked α-d-galacturonic acid residues …

An ultrasound-assisted procedure for the extraction of pectins from grape pomace with citric
acid as the extracting agent was established. A Box–Behnken design (BBD) was employed …

Plant and their products have always been a source of various drugs and excipients used in
pharmaceutical formulations. Pectin, a naturally occurring polysaccharide, has in recent …

Different extraction conditions were applied to investigate the effect of temperature,
extraction time and substrate–extractant ratio on pectin extraction from cocoa husks. Pectin …

The effect of power intensity of ultrasound and temperature on the pectin extraction from
passion fruit peel was evaluated by response surface methodology. The extraction was …