Table 7.
Composition of different GOS ingredients in terms of oligosaccharide chain length.
| Sample | Study | DP2a | DP3 | DP4 | DP5 | DP6 | DP7 | DP8 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOS-1A | This study | 48.9 | 39.1 | 6.19 | 2.20 | 1.64 | 1.39 | 0.641 |
| GOS-1B | This study | 49.1 | 38.9 | 6.18 | 2.19 | 1.66 | 1.37 | 0.610 |
| GOS-2 | This study | 21.0 | 68.5 | 10.2 | 0.293 | |||
| GOS-3A | This study | 25.1 | 63.1 | 11.4 | 0.403 | |||
| GOS-3B | This study | 25.1 | 63.1 | 11.4 | 0.389 | |||
| GOS-4 | This study | 33.0 | 44.2 | 17.3 | 5.51 | |||
| GOS-5 | This study | 15.1 | 51.0 | 25.0 | 5.59 | 2.84 | 0.474 | |
| GOS-6 | This study | 40.2 | 35.8 | 16.3 | 5.91 | 1.71 | 0.105 | |
| GOS-H1e,f | Hernandezb | 41.4* | 37.0 | 14.4 | 7.23 | |||
| GOS-H2e | Hernandezb | 61.6 | 36.0 | 2.4 | 0.00 | |||
| GOS-H3e | Hernandezb | 36.8* | 39.1 | 15.8 | 8.31 | |||
| GOS-C1f | Coulierc | 40.4 | 32.5 | 15.9 | 7.2 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 0.3 |
| GOS-A1f | Albrechtd | 33.3 | 40.4 | 17.5 | 7.0 | 1.8 |
DP: degree of polymerization; aDP2 excludes lactose; bdata adapted from Hernández-Hernández et al. [11]; cdata adapted from Coulier et al. [10]; ddata adapted from Albrecht et al. [30]; eGOS-H1, GOS-H2, and GOS-H3 are GOS-1, GOS-2, and GOS-3, respectively, in the original publication; fGOS-H1, GOS-C1, and GOS-A1 are Vivinal GOS; *DP2 may be slightly underestimated since ß-D-Gal-(1→2)-D-Glc coelutes with lactose in this study.