Solubilization of cashew gum from Anacardium occidentale in aqueous medium

Carbohydrate Polymers
Sanghoon KimJason Adkins

Abstract

Although cashew gum (CG) is known to be soluble in water, the solubilized CG does not exist as individual molecules in its solution. Instead, CG molecules form aggregates resulting in a turbid solution. For better solubilization of CG in water, two types of approaches are attempted: thermal degradation and changing the pH of solution medium. The thermal degradation at high temperatures does not follow the same pattern as a similar polysaccharide, starch: instead of being thermally degraded to smaller molecules that are readily soluble in water, the aggregated CG molecules were not fully disintegrated to individual molecules even after the heating to 190 °C. Size Exclusion Chromatography (SEC) shows that CG exists as entangled aggregates in aqueous solution at room temperature, and these aggregates disentangle in neutral or alkaline medium. Therefore, raising the pH of solution turns out to be a more efficient way to dissolve CG in water than thermal degradation. CG aggregates disintegrate only when the pH of its solution is adjusted to higher than 6.2. The peak MW of CG is measured to be 28 kDa. The lowest temperature that will initiate the thermal degradation and the temperature that induces full degradation of CG are estimate...Continue Reading

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Dec 29, 2020·Carbohydrate Polymers·Antônia Carla de Jesus OliveiraMônica Felts de La Roca Soares

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