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Pectin is available in many plants and in this study, the peels of tomatoes and beet were used to be an economical
source of pectin production instead of dumping it with waste or using it as animal feed. The pectin extracted from the peels using
different solutions, namely citric acid (2 M), oxalic acid (2%) and hydrochloric acid (0.5 M) the outcome of the extraction
methods, 7. 1%, 6% and 11% respectively for tomatoes peels, while the pectin of beet peels were 8%, 6.5%, and 8.3%, and
the highest percentage obtained in the manner of hydrochloric acid adopted in the manufacture of yogurt.Yogurt was manufactured
with four treatments, in the first treatment standard pectin was added and the second treatment in addition to the pectin
extracted
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