Lecture 10- Carbohydrates Flashcards
What are the functions of digestible Carbohydrates?
Metabolic energy
What is the function of non-digestible carbohydrate?
bulkiness, water holding, stability, browning, textures, lower water content
What is classification based on with the WHO/FAO?
Sugar (1-2 Degree of Polymerizatoin)
Oligosaccharides (DP 3-9)
Polysaccharides (DP >9)
What is the the international nomenclature rule classificaiton of carbohydrates?
Oligosccharide (2-10 sugar units)
Polysaccharides (30 +)
Examples of Monosaccharides
fructose, glucose, galactose, arabinose and xylose
Examples of Oligosccharides (2-10 monomers)
disaccharides: sucrose and lactose
Trisaccharides: raffinose
Examples if polysccharides
Polymer of monomers >10
Examples of Homopolysaccharides
starch, cellulose, glycogen,
Examples of Heteropolysaccharides
PEctin, hemicellulose and gums
Three monosaccharides
Glucose
Fructose
Galactose
In what form are carbohydrates present as in foods?
Unbound molecuoles
Physically associated to otherr moleclues (Starch, granules)
Chemically bound to other molecules ( glycolipids, glycoproteins)
What is the relevance of determining food carbohydrates? (4)
Nutrition Labeling
Detection of adulteration
Food Quality
Food Processing
What is the old method of carbohydrate analysis
calculating the percent remaining after all the other components have been measured
%carbs= 100-(%H2O+ % protein + %lipid + %Ash + %Fiber)
What are the disadvantages of determination of carbohydrates through difference from proximate analysis?
Experimental errors, better to directly measure the carbohydrate content for accurate measurements
Sample Preparation (3 main steps)
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Dry raw material, grind the dehydrates material & extract with CHCl3-MeOH to remove lipids & lipid soluble components, extract residue with ethanol, ion exchange to get mono and disaccharides
What are the methods of Analysis? (5)
Chemical Physical Enzymatic Instrumental Immunoassays
What are the chemical methods?
Colorimetric, titration , gravimetric
What are the physical methods?
Polarimetry, refractometery
Density
What are the instrumental methods?
Polarimtery, Refractometery,
Density
What are the instrumental methods?
Chromatography, NMR, Electrophoresis and IR
What are the three colorimeteric methods?
Pheno-sulfuric acid, Anthrone Method, Somogyi-Nelson Method
What is the name of the titration method
Lane-Enon Method
What is the name of gravimetric method?
Munson-Walker Method
What does the phenol-sulfuric method determine?
Total Carbohydrates
What is the Phenol sulfuric acid method?
samples that conttain mono, oligo, poly, glucose, fructose, matlose, sucrose, starch, cellulose
–>(heat, H2SO4) –> Furan Components –> (condensation with Phenol) Colored compounds (yellow-gold color)
Measured with spectrophotometer at 490nm
Advantages of Phenol Sulfuric method
simple, sensitive, accurate, specific for carbohydrates
Disadvatages of the Phenol Sulfuric method
Does not involve stoichiometric reactios and the extent of rxn is a function of the structure
If different sugars found in sample, glucose is used to prepare the standard curve
Sorbitol or other sugar alcohol does not produce positive result
Results are expressed in terms of 1 carb because absorption only at one wavelength
What is the basic princople of the Anthrone Method?
Carbohydrates are dehydrated by strong acids to produce furan components
What is the Anthrone method?
Furan components react with Anthrone reagent to yield a blue- green color solution
Absorbance is meausred at 620nm
What does the Anthrone method measure? (2)
reducing and non reducing carbohydrates
What are the reagents in the Anthrone test? What color yields a positive result?
H2SO4
Dehydrated
Bluish green complex
What is Fehling’s test
Tests the presence of aldehydes via the reduction of deep blue solution of copper(2) to a red precipitate of onsoluble copper oxide
Used for reducing sugars
What two solutions are required for the Fehling’s solution?
Fehlings A –> 7 g CuSO4. 5H2O dissolved in distilled water containing 2 drops of dilute sulfuric acid
Fehling’s B –> 35g of potassium tartrate and 12 g of NaOH in 100ml of distilled water
What bonds are detected with the Fehling’s test?
Aldose and Ketose groups
–> Cu2O
What is the Somogyi-Nelson Method?
improvment of fehling’s method
Used to determin reducing sugars
For the determination of oligo- and poly saccharides, enzymes are used before the addition of reagent
What is the principle of Somogyi-Nelson Method?
Aldehyde group of reducing sugar reduces the Cu2+–> Cu+ in basic solution
What happens to ketoses in the Somogyi-Nelson Method?
enolize to aldoses in bsic solution so that they are also reducing sugars
What is the reagent for Somogyi-Nelson Method
arsenomolybdate complex produced from ammonium molybdate (NH4)6Mo7O24 with sodium arsenate
What product is the Cu+ reduced to? (Somogyi-Nelson Method)
arsenomolybdate is reduced to a stable blue product
How is the colour read with the Somogyi-Nelson Method
520nm and quantified against a standard curve of glucose