Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
Volume 72, Issue -, Pages 472-479Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2014.08.044
Keywords
Oligosaccharides; Antioxidant; Antimicrobial
Funding
- Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Technology, Tunisia
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Enzymatic hydrolysis of almond gum generates low molecular weight oligosaccharides (OAG) with a yield of 33.5%. The generated oligosaccharides were purified and identified. OAG analyses show that the most prominent residues were galactose and arabinose with traces of xylose, rhamnose, glucose and mannose. The glycosyl linkage positions were analyzed using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry showing a main chain composed of galactose units [-> 3)-Gal-(1 ->]branched mainly with arabinose residues [Ara-(1 ->]. The antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of OAG were investigated. As regards the in vitro antioxidant activities, the OAG showed a high total antioxidant activity (347 mu g ascorbic acid equivalent/mL), an important DPPH (1,1-dipheny1-2-picrylhydrazyl) scavenging activity (IC50= 0.64 mg/mL) and a high reducing capacity (RP0.5AU = 3.6 mg/mL). Furthermore, OAG had a high antimicrobial activity against Salmonella thyphimirium, Bacillus cereus, Actinomycetes sp, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, Alternaria alternate and Candidat albicans. Finally, OAG efficiency was tested using 0.5%; 0.75% and 1% concentrations in beef meat preservation. Microbial growth and lipid oxidation were monitored during 9 days at 4 degrees C. The results showed significant inhibitions (p < 0.05) of lipid oxidation and microbial growth in ground beef meat containing OAG. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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