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fructan

fructan noun: any homopolysaccharide composed of fructose residues.

Noun

fructan (plural fructans)

  1. Any homopolysaccharide composed of fructose residues
    • 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.2000, Nordic Council of Ministers, Safety evaluation of fructans, TemaNord, page 17
    • 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...2003, Werner Praznik, Ewa Cieŝlik, Anton Huber, “13: Fructans: Occurrence and Application in Food”, in Piotr Tomasik, editor, Chemical and Functional Properties of Food Saccharides, CRC Press, page...

Forms of fructan

pluralfructans

Words formed from fructan

Questions about fructan

What does fructan mean?
Fructan means any homopolysaccharide composed of fructose residues.
What part of speech is fructan?
Fructan is a noun.
What is the plural of fructan?
The plural of fructan is fructans.

Words near fructan in the dictionary

  1. Fruchthandler
  2. fruchtschiefer
  3. fruck
  4. fruckies
  5. fructal
  6. fructan
  7. fructanase
  8. fructanases
  9. fructanohydrolase
  10. fructanohydrolases
  11. fructans

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