polysaccharide

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Since chitin is a very high molecular weight polysaccharide, traditional processing techniques rely on caustic chemicals to break it down.

From Science Daily • Feb. 21, 2024

He sometimes recommends polysaccharide extract from turkey tail as a supplement for selected patients.

From National Geographic • Jan. 31, 2024

The process also activates pectin, an acidic polysaccharide present in many fruits that sets the jam into a spreadable gel.

From Salon • Dec. 6, 2023

Other genes worth targeting would be those controlling chitin, the hard polysaccharide that makes up insects’ exoskeleton.

From Scientific American • Aug. 28, 2023

These substances constitute a group of compounds which are very similar to the polysaccharide carbohydrates in composition and constitution, but which serve entirely different purposes in the plant.

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred