The Specialists for Pectin - Herbstreith & Fox

Natural Food Addi tives
are absolutely in line
with consumer wishes.
The founder of our company, Hermann
Herbstreith, discovered decades ago the
usefulness and multivaried application
potential of pomace, a by-product from
the fruit juice manufacture and discarded
until then. From then on, the undervalued
pomace served as valuable raw
material in the production of apple pectin.
Chemically speaking, pectin is a
macromolecular compound belonging
to the heteropolysaccharides.
The main component is
polygalacturonic acid, which is
partially esterified with methanol.
Pectin is produced from vegetable raw
material with a high natural pectin content,
such as apple pomace, citrus peels
and beet chips, in a technologically complicated
process.
The different raw materials will yield various
amounts of pectin. These pectin
extracts are now specifically processed
in various processes to achieve a number
of different types of pectin with specific
properties.
Which type of pectin will finally be employed
by the user depends largely on
the specific criteria to be met by the
finished product.
Pectin is today an indispensable component
in many products, mainly in the food
sector, but also in the non-food sector,
since it is a universally applicable, naturally
gelling, thickening and stabilizing
substance.
Raw Materials which are a Source of Pectin:
Pectin content
pomace 10-15%
sugar beet chips 10-20 %
citrus peels 20-35 %
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