The consumer demand for starch continues to grow to meet food consumption needs.
However, starch producers are increasingly looking towards non-food, industrial …

Background Agave fructans are natural reserve carbohydrates in agave plants. These
polysaccharides are composed of blends of fructose polymers with different degrees of …

Novozym 435 (N435) is a commercially available immobilized lipase produced by
Novozymes. It is based on immobilization via interfacial activation of lipase B from Candida …

Lipases are efficient enzymes with promising applications in the nutraceutical and food
industry, as they can offer high yields, pure products under achievable reaction conditions …

Fructans, are carbohydrates defined as fructose-based polymers with countable degree of
polymerization (DP) ranging so far from DP3 to DP60. There are different types of fructans …

Octyl β-d-glucopyranoside (OBG), prepared from d-glucose and octan-1-ol employing MW
method, was subjected to direct dimolar valeroylation in pyridine at room temperature (25° …

Biosurfactants are amphipathic molecules produced by plants, animals, and
microorganisms, that present emulsifying properties and may act reducing surface and …

Glycolipids, carbohydrate fatty esters or sugar esters are amphiphilic molecules containing
hydrophilic groups bonded to hydrophobic parent structures. Recently, glycolipids have …

This work describes the cationization and carboxymethylation of agave fructans and their
physicochemical and functional characterization. The results show that the modification …

Native agave fructans were modified by an acylation reaction with lauric acid. Native and
modified fructans were characterized using NMR, FTIR and various physicochemical and …