Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A yellow, water-soluble, gummy polysaccharide found in plant cell walls and yielding xylose upon hydrolysis.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A gelasinous, levorotatory compound, C5H8-O4(?), contained in all kinds of wood. With sulphuric acid it yields the sugar xylose; boiling mineral acids convert it chiefly into fur-furaldehyde. It is also called
wood-gum .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) A gummy substance of the pentosan class, present in woody tissue, and yielding xylose on hydrolysis; wood gum.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biochemistry A
polysaccharide , consisting ofxylose residues, found in the cell walls of some algae and plants.
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Xylitol: A sugar alcohol, derived from xylan a complex sugar chain, sort of like cellulose, which is found in corncobs, straw, almond shells, and birch bark which is then broken down into individual units of a simple sugar, called xylose, which is then hydrogenated to make xylitol.
Sweeter Than Sugar? 2007
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The ability of snails to hydrolyze plant polysaccharides xylan, mannan, starch and cellulose as well as chitin, an animal and fungal polysaccharide, is probably an indication of their omnivorous diet.
Archive 2006-04-01 AYDIN 2006
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His method for the determination of chain length in methylated polysaccharides, an important structural problem, helped to settle the basic features of the starch, cellulose, glycogen, inulin and xylan molecules.
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Xylitol is a natural low-glycemic sweetener, manufactured from birch trees, corn, or other natural xylan-rich sources.
Wil's Ebay E-Store amp;34; 2010
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- Xylathin (TM) xylanase rapidly degrades xylan significantly improving the economics of processing wheat into
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Xylitol is a natural low-glycemic sweetener, manufactured from birch trees, corn, or other natural xylan-rich sources.
Wil's Ebay E-Store amp;34; 2010
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Xylitol is a natural low-glycemic sweetener, manufactured from birch trees, corn, or other natural xylan-rich sources.
Wil's Ebay E-Store amp;34;Carbs 2010
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- Xylathin (TM) xylanase rapidly degrades xylan significantly improving the economics of processing wheat into
WN.com - Articles related to Professor brings clean power to African villages 2010
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Xylitol is a natural low-glycemic sweetener, manufactured from birch trees, corn, or other natural xylan-rich sources.
Wil's Ebay E-Store amp;34;Acai Berry 2010
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Xylitol is a natural low-glycemic sweetener, manufactured from birch trees, corn, or other natural xylan-rich sources.
Wil's Ebay E-Store amp;34;Carbs 2010
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