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OLIgo Mass Profiling OLIMP of Extracellular Polysaccharides
Published on: June 20, 2010
New perspectives for banana peel polysaccharides and their conversion to oligosaccharides
Maria Angélica F Pereira1, Karina Cesca1, Patrícia Poletto1
1Department of Chemical and Food Engineering, UFSC - Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, SC 88040-970, Brazil.
Abstract:
Banana peel is a source of polysaccharides: pectin, hemicellulose and cellulose. Recent studies have shown that these carbohydrate fractions can be converted into oligomers, which have applications in food, feed and pharmaceuticals, claiming important technical, functional and biological activities. Potential prebiotic activity of pectin and cellulose oligosaccharides obtained from banana peel was already reported. Based on technologies developed for fractionation and extraction of polysaccharides, such as pectin, hemicellulose and cellulose, banana peel can be explored to obtain functional oligosaccharides.
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