Pectin is a soluble fiber that is extracted mostly from citrus peel by-products from the juice and citrus oil processing industries. It has many different functional properties that make it a very versatile ingredient for a wide range of products.
Keep reading to see why Gillco is a proud pectin supplier!
What Is Pectin?
Pectin is a plant-based thickening agent used to improve the texture and consistency of different food products. It is sourced through a sustainable process that uses the by-products of citrus peels to extract the pectin.
Gillco supplies high-quality GRINDSTED® pectin from IFF (formerly DuPont Danisco). Pectin is a white powder that acts as a gelling agent, thickening agent, and stabilizer in food products. It helps improve the texture, taste, and appearance of products without compromising their ingredients.
Applications for Pectin
The unique gelling properties of pectin make it a good choice for many food types. There are several different applications where pectin is best used:
- • Juice & reduced-sugar beverages: Adds viscosity, improves texture/mouthfeel, and helps with excellent flavor release.
- • Low pH dairy and plant-based protein beverages: Helps with protein stabilization, adds viscosity, and improves texture/mouthfeel.
- • Confectionery: Aids in gelling properties, helps set temperatures, and improves texture.
- • Spoonable fermented products: Improves texture and mouthfeel.
- • Jams, jellies & fruit spreads: Aids in gelling properties, spreadability, suspension, and syneresis control.
- • Fruit preparations for different applications: Assists with suspension, improves texture, helps with flavor release, provides syneresis control, and aids in bake stability.
Pectin is plant-based, which makes it suitable for different dietary preferences and regulatory requirements. With its multifaceted benefits, you can feel confident about your food products when you use pectin.
Gillco's Pectin Sourcing
Gillco partners with IFF to source GRINDSTED® pectin. Our long-term relationship with IFF ensures a secure, reliable supply for our customers. We source the best ingredients so our customers can make the highest quality products.
IFF has a special process that creates their pectin. They have a sustainable model that uses the peel byproducts of citrus fruits, such as oranges, lemons, limes, grapefruit, and tangerines after they’ve been juiced. The production process is sustainable, making it clean and environmentally friendly.
The Benefits of Pectin
As a pectin supplier, we offer a large product range of pectin that each has its own unique benefits:
- • GRINDSTED® Pectin AMD: Prevents protein sedimentation and whey loss, controls viscosity, builds texture, and replaces texture when milk solids, fat, and/or sugar are reduced.
- • GRINDSTED® Pectin SF EXTRA: Provides a soft and spreadable texture, performs across a variety of soluble solids, pH levels, fruit types, and filling temperatures, tolerates wide parameters in processes and recipes, and adds shine to products.
- • GRINDSTED® Pectin YF: Texture properties that quickly regain viscosity, create a gel network with high yield value to suspend fruit pieces, work over a broad formulation and fermented mass range, provide excellent flavor release, and allow for texture modification.
- • GRINDSTED® Pectin CF: Uniform gelling provides a clean-cut and shiny appearance, low setting temperature required for processing, and high heat stability improves tolerance to manufacturing, transport, and consumption in warm climates.
- • GRINDSTED® Pectin SY: Builds body and viscosity for a smooth texture and shiny appearance, maintains texture throughout shelf life, and replaces texture in formulations designed to reduce cost and/or calories.
- • GRINDSTED® Pectin PRIME: This multipurpose pectin range works in a wide variety of applications. Its versatility makes developing line extensions easy and accelerates the development cycle, as it tolerates wide parameters in processes and recipes and reduces inventory.
- • GRINDSTED® Pectin JD: Increases texture and flavor of fruit, reduces costs, and helps reduce sugar content without compromising texture.
- • GRINDSTED® Pectin HE: Provides uniform gelling and syneresis control in high-sugar jams and jellies.
- • GRINDSTED® Pectin LC: Works in a wide variety of applications with organic or clean label requirements, offers excellent flavor release, and provides bake stability.
- • GRINDSTED® Pectin LA and SF: Provides a gel network that ensures texture, suspension and syneresis control, a wide product range designed to perform across a variety of soluble solids, pH levels, fruit types, and filling temperatures.
Because GRINDSTED® pectin is a plant-based, clean-label ingredient, it is a great choice for an array of different food products.
Get Your GRINDSTED® Pectin from Gillco
With its functional benefits, GRINDSTED® pectin can help boost the health appeal of your products while supporting stability and texture. Partner with Gillco as your pectin supplier for access to this clean-label ingredient to improve your products. Together, we can create delicious foods through the unique functionality of pectin.