**5. Conclusions**

Pectin over the years has "metamorphosed" from just being a gelling agent for the production of jam and confectionaries to a biomaterial with health benefits to being useful as an excipient in drug delivery systems and more recently even personalized 3D printed medicine. This is as a result of a better understanding of its structure, mechanism by which it gels, and its properties such as degree of esterification and degree of blockiness, which has aided its classification and application.

The pharmaceutical industry has a material that can be explored in different functional dimensions as the usefulness and functionality of pectin unfolds.
