Pectin is a component that is naturally present in mostplants, and has to be extracted from there. Due to the concentration of pectinin fruits must be high enough and the quality of the pectin should be up toscratch, most pectin is extracted from two types of fruits: apples and citrusfruits.
Followed by rapid growth of pectin industry in America andEurope, then citrus pectin production has been well established in Latin American citrus growing countries like Mexico and Brazil, after that China becomesa major apple pectin supplier thanks to its large apple planting industry.
Anyue, a county of Sichuan, is the ‘lemon capital’ in China,contributes 80% of China’s total. In 2019, the first Lemon Industry DevelopmentConference was hosted in Anyue, discussed with representatives from the world’sfour major lemon-producing areas in Turkey, the US, Italy, and Spain, how topursue high-quality and green development of the lemon industry. On November25, 2022, the Third World Lemon Industry Development Conference was kicked offin Anyue again. At the ceremony of the event, MT Biotech launched fulloperation of lemon deep-processing, which will meantime ‘increase the local lemonfarmer’s annual income by 10 to 15 percent’, introduced by Liu Yancheng,director of MT Biotech’s post-doctoral workstation. And the China LemonIndustry Technology Innovation Alliance, an integrated information platform wasestablished at the ceremony,
MT Biotech is the citrus pectin manufacturer in China, locatedin Tongnan, close to Anyue, which allows MT Biotech makes citrus pectin fromfresh lemon peels at reasonable cost. YeaFine Ingredients, a leading foodingredients supplier, proudly announced the export authorization partnershipwith MT Biotech, to accelerate MT Biotech to grow citrus pectin business inoverseas.
Reference:
CHINA DAILY: https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202211/09/WS636b7b89a3105ca1f2275098_1.html
China-EU GI Agreement:
http://eu.china-mission.gov.cn/eng/zgggfz/cega/202301/t20230103_11000249.htm