Table 1.
Representative summary of the physico-chemical properties of β-glucans present in different food products adapted from [20].
| Category | Common Name | Species | Name of the β-Glucan |
Glycosidic Bonds | Solubility in Water |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Higher plants | Oats | Avena sativa | - | β-1.3 and β-1.4 w/o branches | Soluble |
| Higher plants | Barley |
Hordeum Vulgar and |
- | Soluble | |
| Fungi | Maitake mushroom | Leafy griffon | Grifolan | Main chain consists of β-1,3 glycosidic bonds with branches with single glucose units β-1,6 | Soluble |
| Fungi | Shiitake mushroom | Lentinula edodes | Lentinan | Soluble | |
| Fungi | Schizophyllan | Schizophyllum commune | GSP | Soluble | |
| Seaweed | Algae | Laminaria typed | Laminarin | Main chain consisting of β-1,3 glycosidic bonds with β-1,6 side chains | Soluble |
| Seaweed | Algae |
Saccharina
longicruris |
Laminarin | Soluble | |
| Seaweed | Cochayuyo |
Durvillaea
antarctica |
Laminarin | Soluble | |
| Yeasts | Brewer’s yeast | Saccharomyces cerevisiae | Zymosan | Insoluble | |
| Microalgae | Euglena |
Euglena
gracilis |
Paramylon | Branchless chains β-1.3 | Insoluble |