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pectin
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As tomatoes ripen, an enzyme is produced which causes softening by breaking down the pectin in the cell walls. ▪ Because of their high pectin content, quinces jell much more quickly than almost any other fruit. ▪ Like pectin ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pectin \Pec"tin\, n. [Gr. ? curdled, congealed, from ? to make fast or stiff: cf. F. pectine.] (Chem.) One of a series of carbohydrates, commonly called vegetable jelly , found very widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, especially in ripe fleshy ...
Usage examples of pectin.
The juice of Mulberries contains malic and citric acids, with glucose, pectin, and gum.
Besides containing citric and malic acids, the Raspberry affords a volatile oil of aromatic flavour, with crystallisable sugar, pectin, colouring matter, mucus, some mineral salts, and water.
The chemical constituents of the Strawberry are--a peculiar volatile aroma, sugar, mucilage, pectin, citric and malic acids in equal parts, woody fibre, and water.
Other constituents are a crystalline saponin- like glucoside, an amorphous, bitter glucoside, which is a modification of tannin, and is known as Ipecacuanhic acid, choline, resin, pectin, starch, sugar, calcium oxalate, odorous, fatty matter and a disagreeable-smelling volatile oil.
Other constituents are traces of a volatile oil, albumen, resin, fat, wax, chlorophyll, tannic acid, grape sugar, gum, extractive, starch, pectin and various alkaline and earthy salts.
Later he would find out whether it had been reduced to disassociated polysaccharide chains and freeflowing pectins along with the rest of the forest, or whether it had been lifted and transported out of harm’s way.
Obviously these things should be avoided but I have found in many cases that Acidophilus and Pectin tablets between meals and Papaya Enzyme with meals negate the bad effects of these foods.
I recommend two tablets of Papaya Enzyme with meals and two tablets of Acidophilus and Pectin between meals.
According to Volg, Phamacognisie, 1892, it is still used in Central Europe in veterinary medicine, and Ludwig and Busse (1869) found it to contain mannite, mycose, pectin, mycogum, mycodextrin and mycoinulin.