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• Pectin is commonly derived from citrus fruits or apples
• A group of substances which consists entirely of a long chain of galacturonic acid units
• A polysaccharide that is the major binding component of the cell walls of plants and fruits
• Broad generic term for what are now more correctly called pectic substances or materials
• Any of various water-soluble colloidal carbohydrates that occur in ripe fruit and vegetables
• A methylated polymer of galacturonic acid found in the middle lamella and the primary cell wall
• Substance found in most fruit and some vegetables which is required for setting jams and jellies
• A natural plant sugar that acts as a thickening agent during the making of fruit jellies and preserves
• (pek´tin) a one-sugar polymer of sugar acids of fruit that forms gels with sugar at the proper pH
• A gluey substance found in the middle lamella between adjoining cell walls that cements the adjoining cells together

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