TITLE:
Main Polysaccharides Isolated and Quantified of Aloe vera Gel in Different Seasons of the Year
AUTHORS:
Berenice Aranda Cuevas, Carlos Hernán Herrera Méndez, Ignacio Islas Flores, Sara Solís-Pereira, Luis Cuevas-Glory, Gerardo Rivera Muñoz, María de Lourdes Vargas y Vargas, Jorge Tamayo Cortez
KEYWORDS:
Acemannan, Aloe vera, Gel, Polysaccharides, Rainy Season, Dry Season
JOURNAL NAME:
Food and Nutrition Sciences,
Vol.7 No.6,
May
27,
2016
ABSTRACT: We developed and implemented a methodology that allowed extracting and evaluating high molecular weight polysaccharides present in the gel of Aloe barbadensis Miller. One of the fractions evaluated revealed the presence of high molecular weight carbohydrates (200 kDa) with a behavior similar to that of acemannan and another fraction with compounds of molecular weights between 17 and 47 kDa. We quantified the concentration of acemannan for two different growing periods. The concentration of acemannan in the high molecular weight fraction was 99.97 ppm in the rainy season and 106.03 ppm in the dry season. The concentration of acemannan in the fraction of low molecular weight was 9.364 ppm during the season of greatest rainfall and 26.939 ppm in the dry season.