摘要 |
<p>An environmentally-friendly process for producing a low-cost, crude, human-consumable, pectic material containing fiber which includes the steps of (i) reacting an aqueous slurry of an edible fiber with an alkaline earth metal electrolyte, (ii) separating the slurry into a pectin-rich solid fraction and a pectin-poor liquid fraction, (iii) passing the fiber through an ion exchange column to exchanging H+ ions for the previously added alkaline earth metal ions on the pectin component of the fiber, and (iv) drying the fiber.</p> |