Fruit Gems — Sunkist Fruit Gems are quarter sized pectin candies.They are a soft round candy made from confectionary sugar with fruit flavors. Fruit Gems are made by Jelly Belly, which purchased prior manufacturer, The Ben Myerson Candy Company, under license … Wikipedia
Pectin — (from Greek πηκτικός pektikos , congealed, curdled [ [http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3D%2382916 Pektikos, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek English Lexicon , at Perseus] ] ), a white … Wikipedia
Fruit Roll-Ups — is a brand of fruit snack manufactured by General Mills and distributed under the Betty Crocker brand in the United States and the Uncle Tobys brand in Australia. The snack is a flat, pectin based fruit flavored candy, wrapped around a piece of… … Wikipedia
pectin — polysaccharide found in fruit and vegetables, crucial in forming jellies and jams, 1838, from Fr. pectine, coined early 1830s by French chemist Henri Braconnot (1781 1855) from acide pectique pectic acid, a constituent of fruit jellies, from Gk.… … Etymology dictionary
Fruit preserves — Jam redirects here. For other uses, see Jam (disambiguation). Five varieties of fruit preserves (clockwise from top): apple, quince, plum, squash, orange (in the center) Fruit preserves are preparations of fruits and sugar, often canned or sealed … Wikipedia
fruit processing — Introduction preparation of fruit for human consumption. Fruit is sometimes defined as the product of growth from an angiosperm, or flowering plant. From a purely botanical point of view, the fruit may be only the fleshy growth that arises … Universalium
pectin — pectinaceous /pek teuh nay sheuhs/, pectinous, adj. /pek tin/, n. Biochem. a white, amorphous, colloidal carbohydrate of high molecular weight occurring in ripe fruits, esp. in apples, currants, etc., and used in fruit jellies, pharmaceuticals,… … Universalium
pectin — [[t]pe̱ktɪn[/t]] pectins N MASS Pectin is a substance that is found in fruit. It is used when making jam to help it become firm … English dictionary
pectin — 1. Broad generic term for what are now called pectic substances or materials; specifically, a gelatinous substance, consisting largely of long chains of mostly d galacturonic acid units (typically α 1,4 linkages and sometimes present as methyl… … Medical dictionary
pectin — noun Etymology: French pectine, from pectique Date: 1838 any of various water soluble substances that bind adjacent cell walls in plant tissues and yield a gel which is the basis of fruit jellies; also a commercial product rich in pectins … New Collegiate Dictionary
pectin — pec|tin [ pektın ] noun uncount a substance contained in some fruit, used for making JAM and JELLY thicker … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English