Abstract
Pectinase: A Useful Tool in Fruit Processing Industries
Highlights
Over the past decade, fruit and vegetable juice market has rapidly grown and is expected to grow more in near future due to the changing life style, more travelling, easy adaptation to the western culture and increase in the health awareness, [1]
For examples pectinases are used in fruit juice industries for processing of fruits and vegetables to improve the quality of juice
The pectin-starch and along with protein complexes colloids are present in the juice that have to be removed with enzymatic treatment with pectinase enzyme to reduce the viscosity and turbidity [17]
Summary
Submission: February 03, 2018; Published: March 07, 2018 *Corresponding author: Jyoti Singh Jadaun, Dyanand Girls Post Graduate College, 13/394, Parwati Bagla Rd, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208001, India, Email: Abstract. Owing to increase in the demand of fruit juices and fruit products, it became an indispensable need for the fruit processing industries to improve the quality of the fruit juices in a cost effective manner. Enzymes, being the highly efficient biocatalysts, are used at different steps in the process of juice production. Pectinases are used for the clarification of the juice by breaking the polysaccharide pectin structure present in the cell wall of plants into galacturonic acid monomers. Pectin structure breakage facilitates the filtration process and it increases the total yield of juice. Visual acceptance of the juice by the consumers need better clarity and improved colour that remain stable even during cold storage of the product.
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