ABSTR ACT: Fructooligosaccharides (FOSs) are short-chain sugar molecules, which are useful for a variety of purposes. They possess a number of desirable characteristics, such as low calories, no carcinogenicity, and usefulness as prebiotics. There has been increasing interest in neo-FOSs recently due to their superior Bifido-stimulating effect and chemical and thermal stability compared to thei...

The four DNA nucleosides guanosine, adenosine, cytidine and thymidine have been produced in the gas phase by a laser thermal desorption source, and irradiated by a beam of protons with 5 keV kinetic energy. The molecular ions as well as energetic neutrals formed have been analyzed by mass spectrometry in order to shed light on the ionization and fragmentation processes triggered by proton colli...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Light scattering from collagen within skin limits light-based therapeutics while increasing the risk of epidermal thermal injury. Specific chemicals show the ability to reduce light scattering by reversibly altering the optical properties of skin. This study examines the correlation between collagen solubility and the optical clearing potential (OCP) of sugars and sugar...

Sugarand oligo(ethylene oxide)-based surfactants behave quite differently despite of both being non-ionic surfactants. In a large number of studies the properties and behaviour of these two different kinds of surfactants were addressed. However, it was only recently that an extensive investigation has been carried out on the properties of respective mixtures focussing on mixtures of β-C12G2 (n-...

introduction: conventional technology of sugar production from sugar beet roots consists of the next subsequent steps: sugar beet slicing, thermal denaturation of the sliced beet roots followed by diffusion in hot water at 70–75 _c, purification of extracted juice by lime, concentration of purified juice and crystallization. the diffusion process is one of the most important steps that effect o...

background and objectives: recognizing the impurities of sugar beet and also comparing different methods of juice purification have shown that the chemical purification based on lime and carbon dioxide is really efficient and economic in the sugar industry. factories have to control and improve purification stages to achieve clear juice with high chemical purity, low color, minimum hardness, su...

In order to investigate the thermal degradation of glucose and maltose solutions after high temperature and high pressure (HTHP) treatment, the samples were treated at temperatures of 110, 120, 130, 140, and 150°C for 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 h in an apparatus for HTHP treatment. Glucose and maltose solutions (20% w/w) were prepared by weighing glucose and maltose and adding distilled water in the des...

In recent years, increasing environmental concerns focused greater attention on the development of biodegradable materials. A thermoplastic starch derived from bioresources, sugar palm tree was successfully developed in the presence of biodegradable glycerol as a plasticizer. Sugar palm starch (SPS) was added with 15-40 w/w% of glycerol to prepare workable bioplastics and coded as SPS/G15, SPS/...

Peanut seed lectin (PNA) is widely used to identify tumor-specific antigens on the eukaryotic cell surface. In this work PNA was purified by affinity chromatography, using a column containing glutaraldehyde-treated human erythrocytes, whereas PNA isoforms were purified by hydrophobic interaction chromatography using Phenyl-Sepharose. The affinity-purified PNA and its isoforms consist of four eq...