9005-80-5 Usage
Description
Inulin is a mixture of fructose polymers that serves as carbohydrate storage in plants and is a nondigestible oligosaccharide containing fructose. It is an odorless white powder with a neutral to slightly sweet taste and occurs as a white crystalline solid. Inulin is commercially obtained from chicory root and is also found in common sources such as onion, garlic, leek, asparagus, and Jerusalem artichoke.
Uses
Used in Food Industry:
Inulin is used as a functional food, providing functional groups for beneficial bacteria, as well as improving properties of food such as texture, hydration, and shelf-life. It is used in ice cream products to replace fat and sugar, and in baked goods to replace some of the flour.
Inulin is used as a food additive to improve taste and as a prebiotic, passing into the colon where it is preferentially fermented by healthy bacteria such as bifidobacteria and lactobacilli to increase their proliferation and inhibit unwanted bacteria.
Used in Pharmaceutical Industry:
Inulin is used in the treatment of high blood fats, cholesterol, and triglycerides. It is also used for weight loss and constipation. Furthermore, it is utilized to replace sugar, fat, and flour.
Inulin is used for vaccine and drug delivery via soluble storage, providing a safe plant polysaccharide with a variety of uses in the food and chemical medical industry.
Used in Medical Testing:
Inulin is used to measure kidney function by determining the glomerular filtration rate (GFR).
Production Methods
Inulin is extracted from the tubers of Dahlia variabilis, Helianthus,
in a procedure similar to the extraction of sugar from sugar beet.
Pharmaceutical Applications
Inulin has many potential uses in pharmaceutical applications, as a
filler–binder in tablet formulations; to stabilize therapeutic
proteins; or to enhance the dissolution of lipophilic drugs.
Methacrylated inulin hydrogels have been investigated for the
development of colon-specific drug delivery systems.
Inulin is used as a diagnostic agent to measure the glomerular
filtration rate. It is used in the food industry as a sweetener and
stabilizer; and also as a prebiotic, where it has been shown to
provide protection against inflammatory and malignant colonic
diseases in animals. It is also used as a noncaloric dietary fiber
supplement.
Biochem/physiol Actions
A heterogeneous blend of fructose polymers that function as plant storage carbohydrates.
Safety
Inulin is a naturally occurring plant polysaccharide and is one of the
major constituents of the Compositae family. Inulin is recommended
to diabetics, as it has a mild sweet taste, but is not absorbed
and does not affect blood sugar levels. It is used widely in the food
industry as a sweetener and stabilizer.
storage
Inulin is slightly hygroscopic and should be stored at cool to normal
temperatures, in air-tight and water-tight containers.
Incompatibilities
Inulin is incompatible with strong oxidizing agents.
Regulatory Status
GRAS listed.
Check Digit Verification of cas no
The CAS Registry Mumber 9005-80-5 includes 7 digits separated into 3 groups by hyphens. The first part of the number,starting from the left, has 4 digits, 9,0,0 and 5 respectively; the second part has 2 digits, 8 and 0 respectively.
Calculate Digit Verification of CAS Registry Number 9005-80:
(6*9)+(5*0)+(4*0)+(3*5)+(2*8)+(1*0)=85
85 % 10 = 5
So 9005-80-5 is a valid CAS Registry Number.
