Tag: Verbascose

Over 10% of hospital patients may develop venous thromboembolism, for which pentasaccharides like Fondaparinux are used as anticoagulants. A key example of a pentasaccharide is the natural plant sugar, verbascose, while a crucial synthetic example is the heparin pentasaccharide.

Carbohydrates constitute over 90% of a plant's dry weight; a significant portion of these are non-reducing sugars. Non-reducing sugars lack a free aldehyde or ketone group, preventing them from acting as reducing agents. This structural characteristic makes them less reactive during food processing compared to reducing sugars.