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

Each individual polysaccharide which has been studied thus far yields only a single hexose, although the particular hexose obtained varies in different cases.

From The Chemistry of Plant Life by Thatcher, Roscoe Wilfred