Abstract:
The objectives of this study were to determine the yield of pectin from ridge gourd skin, pulp and seed using different extraction method and to study the effect of pH on the extraction of pectin from ridge gourd. The extracted pectin was used to analyze the degree of esterification and gel strength. Extraction of pectin was done using Shkodina et al., ( 1998), Mesbahi et al., (2005) and Gnanasambandam and Proctor, ( 1999) for the skin pulp and seed of the ridge gourd.
