Machine for pectine
Pectin is a fiber found in plants that can be used as a natural starch/gelatin. It can be extracted from different plants and used as a thickener in cooking and production. Without pectin your marmalade or Jam would be more like a sauce and not the delicious jelly texture we know it today.
Short history about pectine
Pectin, short for the word “polysaccharide” found in
fruit and vegetables, was discovered in 1830s by French chemist Henri Braconnot
who extracted pectin from primarily apples and citrus fruits. However, it is
also stated that the marmalade and jam component was discovered in the 1920s by
housewives who was responsible for preparing food for the winter, the third
theory is that it was originally discovered by another French alchemist by the
name Nicholas Vauquelin who is also said to have discovered the elements
chromium and beryllium.
Dissolving pectin is an important component to various things within gelling, thickening or stabilizing additives in food, an ingredient in laxatives, a demulcent in throat lozenges and vegetable glue for cigars. Pectin is found in a broad variety of plant life; however, the field is slimmed tremendously when it is deprived for food purposes. To correctly dissolve pectin is an important factor to avoid lumps to your final products.
Process equipment for pectine
Limitech knows the importance of equipment you can depend on to produce your product. A machine guaranteeing that the nutritional values of the ingredients is not ruined under processing.
LiMiX HIGH SHEAR MIXER
Limitech’s high shear mixer is world known and could by far be categorized as the mixers answer on “Mike Tyson’s left hook”. Its capacity, efficiency and power has been perfectionated for decades into the mixer it is today. Limitech’s High Shear Mixer is used in several different industries as in the adhesives, food, personal care, pharma, plastic industries, etc. among others because of the possibility for easy changing of mixing tools which makes Limitech’s High Shear mixer both versatile and multifunctional.
The Limitech High-Shear mixer is the frontrunner it its field and secure high capacity and efficiency while being innovatively perfectionated to fit perfectly into a lot of different industries, and to be able to be fit a specific process of a given product. The process solution may be versatile to fit into the process of several different industries; however, it has been perfectionated for years into different mixing tools fitting different processes, industries and products.
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