Fructans and other water soluble carbohydrates in vegetative organs and fruits of different Musa spp. accessions.

ABSTRACT: The water soluble carbohydrates (WSC) glucose, fructose, and sucrose are well-known to the great public, but fructans represent another type of WSC that deserves more attention given their prebiotic and immunomodulatory properties in the food context. Although the occurrence of inulin-type fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS) was proposed in the fruit of some banana accessions, little or no information is available neither on the exact identity of the fructan species, nor on the fructan content in different parts of banana plants and among a broader array of banana cultivars. Here, we investigated the WSC composition in leaves, pulp of ripe fruits and rhizomes from mature banana plants of 11 accessions (I to XI), including both cultivated varieties and wild Musa species. High performance anion ex

SUBMITTER: Cruz-Cardenas CI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4460310 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature