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Quality and authenticity of commercial aloe vera gel powders

Tipo de material: TextoTextoSeries ; Food Chemistry, 103(1), p.22-30, 2007Trabajos contenidos:
  • Bozzi, A
  • Perrin, C
  • Austin, S
  • Arce Vera, F
Tema(s): Recursos en línea: Resumen: This study provides a survey of commercial aloe vera gel powders. Nine products, obtained from leading international suppliers, were examined and compared with fresh aloe vera gel. A multi-technique approach was chosen to assess their quality and authenticity. Authenticity was evaluated by nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry (1H NMR). The absence of adulterants, impurities, and preservatives was also investigated by this technique. The amount of mannose after acid hydrolysis gave a direct and rapid measurement of the concentration of the polysaccharide acemannan in the gel powder. The quality of the samples analysed was found to be very inconsistent and in some cases extremely poor. Only three products, out of the nine analysed, contained satisfactory amounts of acemannan (ca. 10
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This study provides a survey of commercial aloe vera gel powders. Nine products, obtained from leading international suppliers, were examined and compared with fresh aloe vera gel. A multi-technique approach was chosen to assess their quality and authenticity. Authenticity was evaluated by nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry (1H NMR). The absence of adulterants, impurities, and preservatives was also investigated by this technique. The amount of mannose after acid hydrolysis gave a direct and rapid measurement of the concentration of the polysaccharide acemannan in the gel powder. The quality of the samples analysed was found to be very inconsistent and in some cases extremely poor. Only three products, out of the nine analysed, contained satisfactory amounts of acemannan (ca. 10

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