Author(s)

Berenice Aranda Cuevas¹, Carlos Hernán Herrera Méndez^2*, Ignacio Islas Flores³, Sara Solís-Pereira¹, Luis Cuevas-Glory¹, Gerardo Rivera Muñoz¹, María de Lourdes Vargas y Vargas¹, Jorge Tamayo Cortez¹

¹Research and Postgraduate Division, Instituto Tecnológico de Mérida, Mérida, Mexico.
²Agroindustrial Engineering Department, Universidad de Guanajuato, Campus Celaya-Salvatierra, Salvatierra, México.
³Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, Mérida, México.

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.

Acemannan, Aloe vera, Gel, Polysaccharides, Rainy Season, Dry Season

Aranda Cuevas, B. , Herrera Méndez, C. , Flores, I. , Solís-Pereira, S. , Cuevas-Glory, L. , Muñoz, G. , Vargas y Vargas, M. and Cortez, J. (2016) Main Polysaccharides Isolated and Quantified of Aloe vera Gel in Different Seasons of the Year. Food and Nutrition Sciences, 7, 447-453. doi: 10.4236/fns.2016.76046.