Diako Khodaei1, Mohammad Nejatian2,*, Hassan Ahmadi Gavlighi2, Farhad Garavand3,*, Ilaria Cacciotti4
Journal of Renewable Materials, Vol.10, No.11, pp. 2805-2817, 2022, DOI:10.32604/jrm.2022.021752
Abstract The seeds from bitter orange, the by-product of juice making units, hold the potential to facilitate novel, easy yet
high-quality pectin extraction. To test this hypothesis, orange seed pectin (OSP) was extracted by distilled water
and its compositional parameters and rheological behavior were then evaluated. Results showed that galacturonic
acid was the major component of OSP (∼425 mg/g) confirming the purity of the extracted pectin, followed by
glucose and some minor neutral sugars. The Mw (weight-average molar mass), Rn (number average molar mass),
and Rz (z-average molar mass) values for the OSP were 4511.8 kDa, 61 nm, and 61.1 nm,… More >
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