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Saccharide Constituents of Horse Chestnut (Aesculus hippocastanum L.) Seeds. 2. Isolation and Characterization of the Starch

Z. Hricovíniová and K. Babor

Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, CS-842 38 Bratislava

Abstract: Starch isolated from the seeds of horse chestnut was distributed into fine-grain and coarse-grain portions. Amylopectin was separated and the β-limit dextrin prepared was characterized by periodate oxidation. The α- and β-amylase susceptibilities were measured; it is deduced that the horse chestnut starch possesses a lower amylose content, short outer and longer inner chains than those of the reference potato starch.

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Chemical Papers 46 (3) 196–198 (1992)