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Ultrasound-mediated pectin extraction from pseudostem waste of Musa balbisiana: a resource from banana debris

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The industrial thirst for sustainable pectin sources could be satisfied by the adoption of waste biomass from banana cultivation as a potential source. The implementation of Musa balbisiana pseudostem for ultrasound-mediated pectin extraction was scrutinized and optimized by response surface methodology. The significant factors employed in ultrasonication were sonication time (10–30 min), pH (1–2.5), solid–liquid ratio (1:10–1:20 g/ml), and temperature (35–75 °C). The optimization results implicate that the highest yield of pectin is 15.10% and the degree of esterification is 59.46% when experimented with a 1:20 g/ml solid–liquid ratio, pH 1.0 for 20 min sonication at 65 °C. Among the six extraction kinetic models, logarithmic model was the best fit to describe the pectin extraction kinetics with significant 0.9639 R2 and 1.085 RMSE values. The extracted pectin from the banana pseudostem was compared with commercial citrus pectin in terms of FTIR, XRD, and TGA to estimate the functional groups, crystallinity, and thermal properties. FTIR and thermal analysis of ultrasound-mediated extracted pectin infer correlation of molecular distribution and sequential arrangement of molecules with commercial pectin. The extracted pectin's equivalent weight, methoxyl content, and anhydrouronic acid were high, which corresponds to the extracted pectin's gelling ability and binding capacity. The intrinsic viscosity, relative viscosity, and molecular weight of the banana pseudostem-extracted pectin determined as 4.15%, 1.41, and 211.84 kDa were found to be significant. This research suggests the positive feedback of pseudo-banana stem for extracting pectin by ultrasonication as novel and efficient technology.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) for the financial assistance through Biotech Consortium India Limited (BCIL) with sanctioned reference number (DBT-NER/AGRI/33/2016 ft. 22/03/2016 of DBT & BCIL/NER-BPMC/2018/245 ft. 26/03/2018 of BCIL) is kindly acknowledged.

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Subash, M.C., Perumalsamy, M. Ultrasound-mediated pectin extraction from pseudostem waste of Musa balbisiana: a resource from banana debris. Polym. Bull. 80, 9963–9987 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00289-022-04538-y

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