Algal Polysaccharides, Novel Applications and Outlook
By S. Kraan. 2012
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Marine algae contain large amounts of polysaccharides, notably cell wall structural, but also mycopolysaccharides and storage polysaccharides (Kumar et al. 2008b; Murata and Nakazoe 2001). Polysaccharides are polymers of simple sugars (monosaccharides) linked together by glycosidic bonds, and they have numerous commercial applications in products such as stabilisers, thickeners, emulsifiers, food, feed, beverages etc. (McHugh 1987; Tseng 2001; Bixler and Porse, 2010). The total polysaccharide concentrations in the seaweed species of interest range from 4-76 % of the dry weight (Table 1). The highest contents are found in species such as Ascophyllum, Porphyra and Palmaria, however, green seaweed species such as Ulva also have a high content, up to 65 % of dry weight.
Subfields: Aquatic Science, Oceanography, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
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Citations in the corpus
- Algae as production systems of bioactive compounds (2015, background): “From the economical point of view, algal polysaccharides are the most important products manufactured from algae [22].”
- The development of seaweed-derived bioactive compounds for use as prebiotics and nutraceuticals using enzyme technologies (2017, background): “On the other hand, red 88 seaweed cell walls consist of agars, carrageenans, xylans, water-soluble sulphated galactans, 89 and porphyrins (mucopolysaccharides), and the main storage polysaccharide is floridean 90 starch (amylopectin-like glucan) (Mišurcová, 2012; Kraan, 2012).”