Patent ID: 6696554
Filing Date: 2004-02-24
Classification: A23L,A61K,C08B,C12Y

Abstract:
A method of making a polygalacturonide preparation useful as a food additive, said method comprising the following steps:a) subjecting pectinous plant material to a pectin extraction in an aqueous medium to obtain a suspension comprising of a liquid phase comprising dissolved pectin and solids from the plant material; b) removing the solids from the suspension to obtain a liquid material; c) precipitating the pectin from the liquid material to obtain a pectin precipitate; d) dissolving the pectin precipitate in an aqueous medium and cleaving the dissolved pectin with purified endo-polygalacturonase to obtain polygalacturonides; and thereafter e) processing the polygalacturonides obtained in step d) into the polygalacturonide preparation without using an additional separation step and without hydrolyzing any ester groups that are present.