date:Jan 10, 2019
stage, he notes.
According to Little, common dietary fibers include mixed-linkage glucan (glucose-based polysaccharide), well known for making porridge sticky and xylan (xylose-based polysaccharide), which is a main fiber component of psyllium products, for example.
This new polysaccharide is composed of both glucose and xylose and may provide an alternative to the above sources or could lead to novel properties that can be exploited further, he tells.
Published in the American Chemistry So