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• n  any of various water-soluble colloidal carbohydrates that occur in ripe fruit and vegetables; used in making fruit jellies and jams

• The substance: pectina whitish, grainy carbohydrate, made from grapefruit, lemons or other fruit.
• Though the report, in keeping with FTC policy, doesn't indict or endorse specific products, it takes a very serious stance against apple pectin, saying that despite an ad's .
• Working on Navy orders the chemists discovered: 1) pectin paste and tannic acid is a natural for battle burns; 2) pectin is a good stand-in for Jap-controlled agar-agar, intestinal .

News & Articles

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• CP Kelco Announces Pectin Capacity Expansion Plans
  ATLANTA, Georgia, USA -- The Board of Directors of CP Kelco, a world-leading pectin producer, approved the first phase in a series of projects to expand its Brazilian pectin operation by 30 percent. The ...
  June 21, 2013 - GlobeNewswire via Yahoo! Finance
• New Research: Modified Citrus Pectin - A Potent Anti-Cancer Therapy
  A new review by researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine highlights a large body of published research demonstrating how modified citrus pectin (MCP), works against cancer. The study, which was published on April 18 in the American Journal of Pharmacology and Toxicology, also examines MCP's synergistic relationship with chemotherapy, as well as its ability to modulate ...
  June 21, 2013 - Newswise

Quotes

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• June Taylor in New York Times
  I have never made one jar of jam with pectin,declared June Taylor, referring to the naturally derived thickener that is a staple of both industrial and home canning.