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July 09, 2021 • 15:50 pm 30 points
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Importance of raffinose in human life?

importance of Raffinose and stachyose in human life?

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    Raffinose sugar present in sugar beet, cotton seed, and many cereals. It is a trisaccharide containing glucose, galactose, and fructose units.chemical formula C18H32O16. The galactose is connected to glucose by 1α→6 glycosidic linkage. When hydrolyzed with enzyme α-galactosidase, it yields D-galactose and sucrose. In plants, Raffinose is well known to serve as desiccation protectant in seeds, as transport sugar in phloem sap and as storage sugars. Raffinose oligosaccharides have generally been considered to have low nutritional value, due to their indigestibility and promotion of flatulence in humans and animals. Raffinose can be found in beans, cabbage, brussels sprouts, broccoli, asparagus, other vegetables, and whole grains. Raffinose can be hydrolyzed to D-galactose and sucrose by the enzyme α-galactosidase (α-GAL), an enzyme not found in the human digestive tract. Procedures concerning cryopreservation have used raffinose to provide hypertonicity for cell desiccation prior to freezing Either raffinose or sucrose is used as a base substance for sucralose. Raffinose is also used in: skin moisturizers and smoothers prebiotics (it allegedly promotes growth of lactobacilli  food or drinks additive

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