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. 2018 Feb 13;27(4):1201–1208. doi: 10.1007/s10068-018-0332-2

Table 1.

Properties of chitosan and chitooligosaccharides (COS) extracted from white-legs shrimp shell waste

Properties Chitosana COSa
Water solubility (g/100 mL) 13.00 ± 0.3 97.00 ± 0.2
Molecular weight (kDa) 650.00 ± 1.2 13.00 ± 3.2
Degree of deacetylation (%) 30.81 ± 4.5 54.83 ± 2.3

aValues are reported as the mean ± SD of three separate experiments