Cargill's consumer preference study revealed that despite the widespread popularity of gelatin-based gummies, participants overwhelmingly favored a softer gummy texture made from alternative ingredients like pectin or tapioca.
Supplement manufacturer Better Nutritionals has teamed up with food tech company DouxMatok to deliver reduced sugar gummies using Incredo Sugar, a sweetener made from real cane sugar.
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Strong and stable gels producedby subjecting pectin to the action of enzymes may offer alternatives to acid-sugar gels already used in foods, says new research from Korean and American scientists.
Mango, banana, and pumpkin have all been mentioned as alternative
pectin sources - but are they industrially viable? In the final
part of an in-depth special series, FoodNavigator examines the
potential of alternative sources of pectin...
Health and wellness is creeping in to every aspect of the food
industry. In the third in an in-depth special series, FoodNavigator
examines the potential for pectin offer formulation solutions when
targeting the health and wellness...
Whether pectin will ever be more than a gelling agent and
stabiliser and be labelled as a health ingredient depends on
science and money. In the second part of an in-depth special
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The Japanese citrus fruit Citrus depressa yields high
methoxyl pectin in higher quantities than grapefruit and lemon, and
could be used as a gelling agent, researchers from Japan have
reported.