September 28/Sao Paulo, Brazil/Press Release -- CP Kelco was awarded the highest honor for food ingredients innovation at the 2010 Food Ingredients South America tradeshow held in Sao Paulo.
Marketed under the GENU Explorer brand, CP Kelco created these new pectin types using a proprietary process, which better maintains the pectin's natural properties. These products have been specially pectin, any of a group of white, amorphous, complex carbohydrates that occur in ripe fruits and certain vegetables. Fruits rich in pectin are the peach, apple, currant, and plum. Protopectin, present in unripe fruits, is converted to pectin as the fruit ripensdesigned to create novel textures in reduced-sugar and sugar-free jams, jellies and fruit spreads.