Rheological properties of the mucilage gum (Opuntia ficus indica)

By L. Medina‐Torres, E. B. L. Fuente, B. Torrestiana-Sánchez, R. Katthain. 2000

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Subfields: Food Science, Plant Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Rheological properties of mucilage extracted from Alyssum homolocarpum seed as a new source of thickening agent (2009, background): “A higher Ea value signifies a more rapid change in viscosity (Medina-Torres et al., 2000).”
• Extraction and Characterization of Mucilage From Wild Species of Opuntia (2014, background): “3 × 10 Daltons (Trachtenberg and Mayer 1982; Medina-Torres et al. 2000).”
• Pectins from Opuntia spp.: A Short Review ♦ (2003, methodology): “Also, in Mexico and Peru, over centuries adobe has been blended with the mucilage of Opuntia ficus-indica.”
• Fatty acid composition and rheological behaviour of prickly pear seed oils (2005, methodology): “The extraction and the characterization of the prickly pear mucilage from sheets was optimized by several authors (McGarvie & Parolis, 1979; Medina-Torres, Brito-De La Fuente, Torrestiana-Sanchez, & Katthain, 2000; Trachtenberg & Mayer, 1981, 1982).”
• Extraction and characterization of mucilage in Opuntia spp (2007, background): “Mucilages are complex polymeric substances of carbohydrate nature, with a highly branched structure (McGarvie and Parolis, 1981; Medina-Torres et al., 2000, 2003; Goycoolea and Cárdenas, 2004; Matsuhiro et al., 2006), which contains varying proportions of L-arabinose, Dgalactose, L-rhamnose and…”
• Effect of Thermal Treatment on the Antioxidant Activity and Content of Carotenoids and Phenolic Compounds of Cactus Pear Cladodes (Opuntia ficus-indica) (2003, background): “Mucilage has a non-Newtonian shear-thinning behaviour and increases its pseudoplastic behaviour (or shear thinning) considerably due to increase in the mucilage concentration from 1 to 10% w/w (Medina-Torres et al., 2000).”