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Effects of Ultrasound on the Physicochemical Properties and Antioxidant Activities of Chestnut Polysaccharide

  • Fan Hou , Yanwen Wu , Lina Kan , Qian Li , Shuangshuang Xie and Jie Ouyang EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: April 19, 2016

Abstract

A comparison of chestnut polysaccharide extraction using ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE) and hot water extraction (HWE) demonstrated that UAE is superior to HWE due to its higher extraction efficiency. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), thermogravimetric analysis-differential scanning calorimetry (TGA-DSC) and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) were used to characterize the ultrasound-assisted-extracted polysaccharide (UAEP) and hot water-extracted polysaccharide (HWEP). SEM images revealed that the UAEP and chestnut residue were crushed, with particle sizes that were smaller than those of the HWEP, which was related to the breakage of long-chain polysaccharides. TGA-DSC showed a higher transition temperature and enthalpy value for the UAEP than the HWEP, and the FTIR spectrum revealed typical characteristics of polysaccharides, with some differences between the UAEP and HWEP. The evaluation of antioxidant activities showed that the UAEP had stronger antioxidant capacities than the HWEP, regardless of the reducing power and DPPH-, ABTS- and hydroxyl radical-scavenging activities, suggesting that ultrasound is an optimal method to rapidly extract chestnut polysaccharide, a potential natural antioxidant.

Award Identifier / Grant number: 201204401

Funding statement: The authors thank the Forestry Industry Research Special Funds for Public Welfare Projects (NO. 201204401) from the Ministry of Forestry of the People’s Republic of China and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (2015ZCQ-SW-04) for their financial support.

Abbreviations

HWE

hot water extraction

HWEP

hot water-extracted polysaccharide

HWER

hot water-extracted residue

UAE

ultrasound-assisted extraction

UAEP

ultrasound-assisted-extracted polysaccharide

UAER

ultrasound-assisted-extracted residue

SEM

scanning electron microscopy;

TGA-DSC

thermogravimetric analysis-differential scanning calorimetry

FTIR

Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy.

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Published in Print: 2016-7-1

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