polysaccharide
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Since chitin is a very high molecular weight polysaccharide, traditional processing techniques rely on caustic chemicals to break it down.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 21, 2024
Instead, “to my surprise, it's very rich in mannan, a type of polysaccharide common in plants, but nowhere near the quantity present in acai,” she says.
From National Geographic ● Dec. 14, 2023
The process also activates pectin, an acidic polysaccharide present in many fruits that sets the jam into a spreadable gel.
From Salon ● Dec. 6, 2023
Other genes worth targeting would be those controlling chitin, the hard polysaccharide that makes up insects’ exoskeleton.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 28, 2023
Each individual polysaccharide which has been studied thus far yields only a single hexose, although the particular hexose obtained varies in different cases.
From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred
Vocabulary lists containing polysaccharide
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