A novel global hydrodynamic analysis of the molecular flexibility of the dietary fibre polysaccharide konjac glucomannan

Food Hydrocolloids

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1910-1917

  Kök, M Samil ^a   Abdelhameed, Ali S ^b   Ang, Shirley ^b   Morris, Gordon A ^b   Harding, Stephen E ^b  

^a ABANT IZZET BAYSAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Intrinsic viscosity; Konjac glucomannan; Molar mass; Persistence length; Semi flexible coil

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349247499     PISSN: 0268005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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