FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2007, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (11): 223-226.

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Extraction and Determination of Water-soluble Polysaccharides from Peels of Grapefruit Planted in Sand-soil

 LIU  Guo-Cong, ZENG  Chu-Jie, LIU  Li-Heng, LIANG  Xiao-Xian   

  1. 1.Department of Chemistry and Biology, Yulin Normal University, Yulin 537000, China; 2.College of Material Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha 410083, China
  • Online:2007-11-15 Published:2011-11-22

Abstract: Water-soluble polysaccharides in grapefruit peels were extracted with hot water and deposited with ethanol after removal of its impurities by refluxing with petroleum ether. Glucose was used as reference in the preparation of calibration curve. The content of water-soluble polysaccharides determined by spectrophotometry was 7.28% with 0.82% RSD(n=3). Good linearity ranged from 15.0μg/ml to 100.0μg/ml. The linear regression equation was as follows: A=0.00755X+0.07475(r=0.9992), Percent recovery of glucose from control experiment was 99.00%±1.15% with 0.59% of RSD(n=5). This method was proved to be simple, reliable and steady with reproducibility and convenient in operation. It can be used for the determination of polysaccharides in pees and pulp of grapefruit.

Key words: grapefruit, water-soluble polysaccharides, extraction, determination