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• TITLE: Physi-Chemical Property Research of Polysaccharides from Pomegranate Flowers

  AUTHORS: Lixin Peng, Yizhao Huang, Wei Tan, Zhiwei Wei, Lihua Zhang

  KEYWORDS: Polysaccharides, Pomegranate Flowers, Physical and Chemical Properties

  JOURNAL NAME: Agricultural Sciences, Vol.12 No.2, February 4, 2021

  ABSTRACT: Pomegranate flowers as row materials were used for extraction of polysaccharides by water-extraction and alcohol-precipitation method. After purification, the physical and chemical properties, structure, monosaccharide composition and molecular weight were studied. The results showed that the polysaccharides from pomegranate flowers mainly contained two kinds of water soluble acidic polysaccharides, and monosaccharide composition were arabinose and galactose, both contained hydroxyl, carboxyl, amino, hydroxyl radical, sulfate, beta glycosidic bond and alpha glycosidic bond structure. The molecular weight of PP1 and PP2 were 6.16 × 104 (±6.6%) and 9.01 × 104 (±3.2%), respectively. The results of this study laid the foundation for further development and application of polysaccharides from pomegranate flowers.