The present invention provides a method for the extraction and isolation of soluble arabinoxylan products from cereal grain. Preferably, such soluble arabinoxylan product is any one of soluble arabinoxylan, arabinoxylan-oligosaccharides, xylose, arabinose, ferulic acid and mixtures thereof. Said method comprises partial debranning of whole cereal grains to obtain partially debranned cereal grains followed by roller milling of said partially debranned cereal grains to obtain cereal bran. The method further comprises the mashing of at least part of said cereal bran in water optionally involving the treatment of the mash with any one of an enzyme preparation, an acid, a base, a peroxide or combinations thereof, either simultaneously or sequentially, to solubilize and optionally depolymerize a fraction of the arabinoxylan comprised in said cereal bran. Preferably, said treatment is done with an enzyme preparation containing an endoxylanase. The method further comprises the separation from said mash of a solubilized fraction, which comprises at least part of the solubilized soluble arabinoxylan products.

The present invention relates to a composition containing at least 67% by weight crude proteins, at least 5% by weight chitin, the weight percentages relating to the total weight of the composition, and 85% by weight digestible protein relative to the total weight of crude protein. The invention is also directed to a method for preparing the composition and to the uses thereof, in particular in human or animal nutrition.

The invention relates to a method for the removal of protein and other impurities from microbial capsular polysaccharides. More particularly, the present invention relates to isolation of microbial capsular polysaccharides in pure form after removal of protein and other impurities.

A purification method for the capsular polysaccharide of type II GBS in which the capsular polysaccharide is filtered using a membrane with a cut-off of less than 30 kDa.

The invention relates to the field of polymer production, in particular to the production of chitin and chitosan from microalgae belonging to the phylum Haptophyta to the phylum Chlorophyta, or to the phylum Heterokontophyta, particularly from microalgae of the genus Isochrysis, Chlorella, Bracteacoccus, Chlorococcum, Scenedesmns, Desmodesmus, Haematococcus, Thalassiosira and Nannochloropsis, as well as to microalgal extracts thereof and their uses.

Described is an improved method of removing lipopolysaccharide from an aqueous medium comprising gelatin and lipopolysaccharides, said method comprising the steps of providing an aqueous medium comprising gelatin and lipopolysaccharides, adding to the aqueous medium a micelle-forming surfactant, contacting the medium with a solid adsorbent, separating the solid adsorbent of from the medium and recovering the aqueous medium comprising the gelatin, wherein the method is performed at conditions below the cloud point of the surfactant.

The present invention relates to a chitin having a molecular mass of more than 855 kg.Math.mol-1 and to a process for obtaining chitin and/or chitosan by separating cuticles from the soft part of the insect and by a basic treatment of the cuticles.

The present invention provides a method for manufacturing fungal pharmaceutical composition, used for extracting a glycosaminoglycan fiber from a fungal cell wall. Differing from the glycosaminoglycan fiber produced by using a fabrication method proposed by Taiwan patent No. 442496 showing many drawbacks including low extraction percentage, coarse fiber, and having light-yellow color, the glycosaminoglycan fiber manufactured by using this novel method reveals the advantages of high extraction percentage, fine fibers, and showing white color. So that, the novel glycosaminoglycan fiber produced by using the present invention's method is suitable for being processed to an excipient. Moreover, because a variety of experimental results have proved that the glycosaminoglycan fiber produced by using the present invention's method possesses good adsorption ability of tissue fluid and moisture retention ability, this novel glycosaminoglycan fiber is also suitable for being processed to a skin dressing, an artificial skin, or a hydrate mask.

The present invention provides a method to prepare polysaccharides from Hirsutella sinensis. The prepared polysaccharides can reduce hyperglycemia and insulin resistance, and can therefore be used to prevent and treat type 2 diabetes and related conditions.

A biostimulant formulation for promoting plant growth, comprising: juice obtained from at least one seaweed species; and hydrolysate obtained from at least one seaweed species pulp, wherein the hydrolysate is obtained from the pulp after juice has been extracted. A method of preparing the biostimulant formulation. A method of contacting the biostimulant formulation with plant to promote the plant growth.