Fructan

Quick meaning: Fructan is a noun meaning (biochemistry) Any homopolysaccharide composed of fructose residues.

Meaning

(biochemistry) Any homopolysaccharide composed of fructose residues.

Example Sentences

All the listed cultivars contain fructans in different amounts as reserve carbohydrate. Another source of fructans are caryopses of grasses and flours of wheat, rye, oat, and barley, which contain between 1 and 7% fructans, depending on the degree of fine milling and applied technological processing.

2000, Nordic Council of Ministers, Safety evaluation of fructans, TemaNord, page 17, Fructans are also produced by algae, fungi and bacteria (Nelson & Smith, 1986) There is a substantial variation in both linkage types and number of carbohydrate monomers making up the fructans. The functionality, if any, of the different fructan structures is as yet not clear.

Word Forms

• fructans

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fructofuranan, oligofructan, polyfructan, fructosaccharide, oligofructose, fructofuranoside.

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