Opuntia spp. are crops well adapted to adverse environments and have great economic
potential. Their constituents, including fruits, cladodes, and flowers, have a high nutritional …

The use of edible coating/film to improve fresh produce's quality and shelf life is an old but
reliable and popular method of preservation. Recently, plant-derived mucilages have been …

This paper discusses mucilage extracted from Opuntia ficus-indica (Cactaceae) cladodes,
also known as Barbary fig. Mucilaginous polysaccharides were extracted in hot water and …

Chia seed mucilage (CSM) is a novel, eco-green, and sustainable edible hydrocolloid
derived from chia, offering a promising alternative to commercial hydrocolloids. This study …

This study aimed to evaluate the extraction efficiency of mucilage from Cordia dichotoma
fruits using various aqueous extraction methods, including microwave-assisted water …

Ixiolirion tataricum mucilage (ITM) was characterized and applied in fabrication of
ITM/chitosan (CH) blend films activated by Foeniculum vulgare essential oil (FEO) in free …

El mucílago de nopal (Opuntia spp.) es un polisacárido calificado como nutracéutico por sus
efectos positivos en la fisiología de los humanos. Por otro lado, el mucílago puede usarse …

The development of sustainable extraction methods to obtain natural products constitutes a
challenge for the food industry. The aim of this work was to compare yield, separation …

Brazilian cacti have the high potential to be used as a source of mucilages with different
technological functions that can be widely explored. The physicochemical, structural and …

Herein, we describe a detailed protocol to extract the mucilage from different species of the
genus Opuntia spp.(ie, Opuntia Ficus (OFi), Opuntia Dillenii (ODi) and Opuntia Robusta …