Background and objectives: Burdock (Arcticum lappa L.) is a Eurasian species of plants in the sunflower family and has been used for hundreds of years by scientists and traditionally in North America, Europe, Asia and especially in China. It has also been used in gouts, hepatitis, blood pressure and other inflammatory disorders. There are several major compounds in dif...

Introduction Fructo-oligosaccharides consist of several fructosyl residues linked to a terminal glucose moiety. They occur naturally in many plant species, such as onion, edible burdock, asparagus, wheat and so on. These fructo-oligosaccharides are commercially produced from sucrose by the transfructosylation reaction of an enzyme or from inulin by enzymatic hydrolysis. This paper reviews the b...