These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed


  • Title: [Distribution of free carboxyl groups in native pectins from fruits and vegetables].
    Author: Anger H, Dongowski G.
    Journal: Nahrung; 1985; 29(4):397-404. PubMed ID: 4022106.
    Abstract:
    Pectins from 18 kinds of fruit and vegetable are extracted with ammonium oxalate from the alcohol-insoluble substance and fractioned on DEAE-Sephacell. All the fruit pectins as well as tomato and sunflower pectin have in their distribution of the esterification degree a concentration maximum in the highly esterified range, that is above an esterification degree of 60%. With lower esterification degrees the concentration decreased continuously. Vegetable pectins from cucumbers, celery, and tomato-paprika (sweet, red) have their maximum within an esterification range of 50-60%. The carboxyl groups are randomly distributed in all these preparations. As against that, vegetable pectins from red and white cabbage, cauliflower, large radish and carrots have in addition to a pectin fraction with randomly distributed carboxyl groups another one, pectin molecules of which have blocks of free carboxyl groups. The latter fraction may constitute up to 50% of the pectin.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]