Maple Biotech Pvt. Ltd.

Bhosari, Pune, Maharashtra

Mapectins are polysaccharides derived from natural biopolymers modified to give gelling at lower temperatures. Normal Pectin requires about 60 degrees Celsius temperature whereas Mapectin sets at room temperatures. This is a revolutionary step in the field of food thickener. Mapectin can be set without sucrose, hence low calorie sweeteners can be used in preparations using Mapectin.
Mapectin is first and foremost a gelling agent and is used to impart a gelled texture to products, mainly fruit-based foods. The gelling ability is further utilized where a stabilization of multiphase foods is required, either in the final product or at an intermediate stage in the process.
Maple Biotech is the company specialized in the field of manufacturing polysaccharides and their derivatives.
Jam is the traditional application for pectin, but today this is far from being the only one. Mapectins are finding increasing use, particularly as gelling agents, but also as viscosity builders, protective colloids and stabilizers in a variety of food and beverage products.
Selecting appropriate raw materials and processing conditions allows control of the average structural parameters. A wide range of pectin types is available. Pectin for food application is usually standardized to ensure performance properties are kept constant and predictable from batch to batch in spite of natural variation.

Applications : The bulk of the world's pectin production is used for the preparation of jams and jellies, but pectin has increasingly gained significance as a gelling agent in acidic food products due to its stability at low pH values.

Today, the most significant applications for pectin include:

• Beverages
• Soft, diet & fruit juices
• Juice drink concentrates
• Nutritional fruit drinks
• Flavored waters
• Confectionery
• Fruit paste (HM pectin)
• Gelled articles (HM or LM pectin)
• Fillings (HM or LM pectin)
• Convenience Foods
• Beverage powders
• Ketchup & tomato sauces
• Dressings & emulsified sauces
• Marinades
• Margarine & spreads
• Dessert & food powders
• Dairy
• Stabilization of acid dairy drinks
• Yogurts
• Shrikhand
• Fruit
• Traditional jams
• Low calorie jams
• Fruit preparations for yogurts
• Preparations for bakery and pastry fillings
• Preparations for fruit, fruit cream-based desserts and water jellies
• Glazes
• Reformed fruit & fruit snacks
• Jam sugars (homemade jam)

Process of jams and jellies using MAPECTIN involves simple mixing of ingredients and no heating required.  High concentration of sugars in formulations act as preservative.  For extra safety the finished products can be gently heated either before or after canning upto 65 degrees centigrade.

Details :

• Jams Recipe
• Fruit Pulp and water 34 parts
• Vinegar (Acetic acid)/ Citric Acid 0.1 part to adjust pH.
• Mapectin 0.7 to 1.0 part
• Flavors and colorants as per requirement
• This mixture is thoroughly mixed with high speed mixer imparting good shear force for 15 to 20 minutes.
• In mixer containing above mixture 65 parts of Sugar is added and mixed at low speed till sugar is completely dissolved.
• Prepared Jam can be heated to 65 degrees centigrade with gentle heating either before canning or after canning.
• Low Sugar Jam Recipe
• Fruit Pulp and water 70 parts
• Vinegar (Acetic acid)/ Citric Acid 0.1 part to adjust pH.
• Mapectin 0.7 to 1.0 part
• Flavors and colorants as per requirement
• This mixture is thoroughly mixed with high speed mixer imparting good shear force for 15 to 20 minutes.
• In mixer containing above mixture 30 parts of Sugar is added and mixed at low speed till sugar is completely dissolved.
• Prepared Jam can be heated to 65 degrees centigrade with gentle heating either before canning or after canning.

Other Details :

• Jelly Recipe
• Fruit Pulp and water 23 parts
• Vinegar (Acetic acid) / Citric Acid 0.1 parts to adjust pH.
• Mapectin 1.5 TO 2.5 parts
• Flavors and colorants as per requirement

This mixture is thoroughly mixed with high speed mixer imparting good shear force for 15 to 20 minutes. In mixer containing above mixture 50 parts of Sugar and 33 parts liquid glucose is added and mixed at low speed till sugar is completely dissolved. Prepared Jelly mix can be heated to 65 degrees centigrade with gentle heating
Jam & Jelly with Swetener (Non-Sucrose)For preparation of Non-Sugar formulation Mapectin is mixed with water to obtain desired consistency and additional preservatives are added then it is mixed with sweetner. Final product is heated gently to 65 degrees Centigrade.

Introduction: Importance of bio-availability and fast disintegration of pharmaceutical tablet is realized and awarness for super-disintegrants in pharmaceutical tablet formulation has also increased. Superdisintegrant viz. Sodium Starch Glycollate was also introduced by Maple Biotech Pvt Ltd. in year 1991, which was appreciated in quality and performance by pharmaceutical industry . Although quest for superior quality superdisintegrant was not over . Superdisintegrant with better stability and superior performance at high tablet hardness level was sought and Maple Biotech's R & D department developed the product Crosslinked Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose which is bearing brand name Cel-Ca-Dissol. Further taking into consideration the requirement for faster dissolution aid for tablets containing ingredients having poor solubility, Calcium Carboxymethylcellulose (Carmellose Calcium) was introduced.

Properties : Carmellose Calcium is white or creamish white in colour and chemically it is Calcium salt of Carboxy Methyl Cellulose with very high degree of purity . Very hard tablets where other superdisintegrants do not perform well Carmellose Calcium performs very much satisfactorily. Quantity to be used in pharmaceutical formulation is very less. Carmellose Calcium helps in dissolution of drugs having poor solubility

Details :

• Advantages of Carmellose Calcium
• Fastest dissolution of Drug material
• good water uptake
• high capillary action
• rapid swelling properties
• efficient fluid channeling
• compatibility with most actives and excipients
• excellent long-term stability
• low usage level
• low cost-in-use
• very fast drug dissolution

Cellulose Acting as a Catalyst for Dissolution Modified Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose Crosslinked Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose. Introduction As importance of bio-availability and fast disintegration of pharmaceutical tablet is realised, awarness for super-disintegrants in pharmaceutical tablet formulation is also increasing . Superdisintegrant viz. Sodium Starch Glycollate was also introduced by Maple Biotech Pvt Ltd. in year 1991, which was appreciated in quality and performance by pharmaceutical industry . Although quest for superior quality superdisintegrant was not over . Superdisintegrant with better stability and superior performance at high tablet hardness level was sought and Maple Biotech's R & D department developed the product Crosslinked Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose which is bearing brand name Cel-Ca-Dissol. Properties : Cel-Ca-Dissol is white or creamish white in colour and chemically it is cross-linked Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose with very high degree of purity . Very hard tablets where other superdisintegrants do not perform well Cel-Ca-Dissol performs very much satisfactorily. Quantity to be used in pharmaceutical formulation is very less. Cel-Ca-Dissol is required almost half the amount of other brands of Crosslinked Sodium Carboxy Methyl Cellulose to acheive similiar performance of tablet dissolution Advantages of Croscarmellose Sodium good water uptake high capillary action rapid swelling properties efficient fluid channeling compatibility with most actives and excipients excellent long-term stability low usage level low cost-in-use very fast drug dissolution

Water insoluble hydrogels with loosely crosslinked three dimensional network structure, absorbing more than 200g of water per gram of the xerogel (dry polymer).The majority of the superabsorbents manufactured are synthetic polymers (essentially acrylics) due to their superior priceto efficiency balance. In view of environment concerns, all over the world the importance of replacing the synthetics by “greener” options is being felt. One of most popular approaches explored for the purpose is introduction of polysaccharides/ carbohydrates through a suitable mechanism.

ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY ASPECTS:

Major issue : Inherent toxicity of the unreacted monomer acrylamide, acrylic acid, acrylate etc. present in the finished products.

Synthetic absorbent materials slowly degrade to toxic material and get leached into ground water and have adverse effect on soil microbial population.

Worldwide research has shown natural polymer based absorbent material have no consistent adverse effect on soil microbial populations.

Desirable characteristics for applications in agriculture

• 1. high absorption capacity in saline and hard water conditions optimized absorbency under load (AUL)
• 2. lowest soluble content and residual monomer low price high durability and stability in the swelling environment and during storage gradual 
• 3. biodegradability without formation of toxic species
• 4. pHneutrality after swelling in water photostability
• 5. Rewetting capability

Unlike Superabsorbent polymers of synthetic type absorbents based on natural polymer have capability to release water whenever required by plant.

SALIENT FEATURES

• Natural polymer backbone based
• Exhibits maximum absorbency @ temperatures (40- 500C) characteristic of semi-arid and arid soils
• Absorbs water 400 times its dry weight and gradually releases the same
• Stable in soil for a minimum period of one year
• Less affected by salts 
• Low rates of soil application – 1-2 kg / ha for nursery horticultural
• crops; 2.5-5 kg/ ha for field crops

SALIENT FEATURES

• Reduces leaching of herbicides and fertilizers
• Improves physical properties of soils and soilless media
• Improves seed germination and seedling emergence rate
• improves root growth and density
• Helps plants withstand prolonged moisture stress
• Reduces nursery establishment period
• Reduces irrigation and fertigation requirements of crops
• Promotes early and dense flowering and fruiting/ tillering.
• Delays onset of permanent wilting point

There is increased awareness about environmental problems generated by synthetic SAP (Acrylate based). In some states it has been made mandetotary to use SAP of organic nature (derived from natural polymers) in Hygiene products like sanitary pads as well as in agricultural application.

We are pioneers in the field of manufacturing natural polymer based SAP.

see the following link for environmental hazard due to synthetic SAP.

https://youtu.be/ShcRkeSv8w4

Synthetic SAP leave toxic residues in soil and contaminate ground water and hence some states have made it mandatory to use SAP of natural polymer in agriculture.