Effect of methylation on the structure and radical scavenging activity of polysaccharides from longan (Dimocarpus longan Lour.) fruit pericarp

Food Chemistry

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 364-368

  Yang, Bao ^a   Zhao, Mouming ^b   Prasad, K Nagendra ^a   Jiang, Guoxiang ^a   Jiang, Yueming ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Longan; Methylation; Polysaccharide; Radical scavenging activity; Structure

Indexed keywords

1,1 DIPHENYL 2 PICRYLHYDRAZYL; ARABINOSE; GALACTOSE; METHYL IODIDE; SUPEROXIDE;

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; FRUIT; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; LONGAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; PERICARP; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ARA; DIMOCARPUS LONGAN;

EID: 69049086562     PISSN: 03088146     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodchem.2009.04.128     Document Type: Article

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