Background Fruits are the main source of pectin, with more than 90% of commercial pectins
being derived from fruit by-products. Fruit pectins are complex heterogeneous …

Background Because of the important role of bioactive compounds in functional foods and
health care, more and more attention has been paid to the active components extracted by …

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a long-term chronic disease, about 20% of IBD patients
deteriorate to colorectal cancer. Currently, there is no radical cure for IBD. Natural plant …

Pectin is a polymer with a core of alternating α-1, 4-linked d-galacturonic acid and α-1, 2-l-
rhamnose units, as well as a variety of neutral sugars such as arabinose, galactose, and …

Viral infections are being managed therapeutically through available antiviral regimens with
unsatisfactory clinical outcomes. The refractory viral infections resistant to available antiviral …

Pectin, a natural polysaccharide, has gained increasing attention due to not only its
biomaterial properties but also its biomedical activities. One of the abundant sources of …

Extraction and application of pectin from jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) peel could add
value to the waste products arising from processing of the jackfruit. In this study, pectin from …

In recent years, RG-I pectin isolated by low-temperature alkaline extraction methods has
attracted the attention of a large number of researchers due to its huge health benefits …

Polysaccharides from Gracilaria lemaneiformis possess various beneficial bioactive
functions, but the immunomodulatory activity remains incompletely known. In the present …

Black elder (Sambucus nigra L.) has a long ethnobotanical history across many disparate
cultures as a treatment for viral infection and is currently one of the most‐used medicinal …