title: Infrared analysis of Macedonian mushroom dietary fibre.
abstract: The existing confusion in the terminology and composition of the mushroom dietary fibre literature data induced us to analyze simultaneously the chemical constitution of various dietary fibre isolates obtained from numerous mushroom samples. For that purpose, in 53 kinds of edible Macedonian mushrooms total dietary fibre was isolated by two parallel methods intended for material of plant and animal origin. With the aid of infrared spectroscopy the chemical constitution of the both isolated components was also investigated. The infrared spectra of the total dietary fibre isolates, obtained according to both applied methods, were similar and close to chitin. In all spectra cellulose is missing.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Pharmacognosy, Faculty of Pharmacy, Vodnjanska 17, 1000 Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. bbauer@freemail.org.mk
authors.forename: Biljana Bauer
authors.initials: BB
authors.lastname: Petrovska
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kulevanova
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Stefov
mesh_terms: D000363:Agaricales / Q000737:chemistry*; D004043:Dietary Fiber / Q000032:analysis*; D018843:Republic of North Macedonia; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared / Q000379:methods