Food producers have leaned towards alternative natural and synthetic sweeteners in food
formulations to satisfy market demands. Even so, several synthetic sweeteners (eg …

Colon targeted drug delivery systems have gained a great deal of attention as potential
carriers for the local treatment of colonic diseases with reduced systemic side effects and …

Acetylated polysaccharides refer to polysaccharides containing acetyl groups on sugar
units. In the past, the acetylation modification of wall polysaccharides has been a hot …

Garlic is a common food, and many of its biological functions are attributed to its components
including functional carbohydrates. Garlic polysaccharides and oligosaccharides as main …

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

Colonic Drug Delivery Systems (CDDS) are especially advantageous for local treatment of
inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD). Site-targeted drug release allows to obtain a high drug …

Fructan, a widespread functional polysaccharide, has been used in the food,
pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and material production fields because of its versatile …

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 …

Agaves represent an important economic source due to the distillates obtained; however,
they also represent a significant amount of agro-industrial waste that is harmful to the …

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