TABLE 3.

A summary of newly discovered nonstarch polysaccharides as α‐glucosidase and α‐amylase inhibitors

No.	Variety	Part used	Active compounds	Inhibited enzyme	Enzyme origin	Method	IC50	Reference
1	Corn	Silk	Carboxymethylated polysaccharide	α‐Amylase		DNSA	5.33 mg/ml (IC50 of acarbose = 91.38 ± 6.20 mg/ml)	Shuhan et al. (2013)
			Sulfated polysaccharide				8.54 mg/ml
			Raw polysaccharide				10.07 mg/ml
			Acetylated polysaccharide				10.31 mg/ml
2	Barely	Seed	Oligosaccharides(BP)	α‐Glucosidase		pNPG	22.49 mg/ml	Qian et al. (2015)
3	Fagopyrum tartaricum	Seed	Neutral polysaccharide	α‐Glucosidase		Glucose oxidase method		Wang et al. (2016)