Table 4. Recovery of oligosaccharide in the final permeate of 10 and 3 kDa MWCO membrane.

Oligosaccharide	Initial feed amount a (mg.ml -1 )	b MWCO 10 kDa %	MWCO 3 kDa %
Total	1.8 ± 0.6	72.22	44.44
> X5	1.05 ± 0.2	52.38	28.57
X5	0.04 ± 0.4	99.50	75.35
X4	0.08 ± 0.2	75.00	50.00
X3	0.1 ± 0.2	90.10	60.25
X2	0.51 ± 0.2	99.50	66.66
X1	0.007 ± 0.2	98.00	98.30

^a Mean ± standard deviation of two replicate determinations.

^bMWCO stands for Molecular Weight Cutoff Membrane