Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
Research Institute of Forests and Rangelands, P.O.Box 13185 – 116, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
Gum arabic or gum acacia is oldest and best known of all the natural gums. Gum arabic is one of carbohydrat`s gum group that is nutritive and demulcent, and exerts a soothing influence upon irritated or inflamed mucous tissues, by shielding them from the influence of deleterrious agents, atmospheric air, etc In this investigation gum of acacia nilotica plant collected from farm of medicinal plant Research in Booshehr province for study quantitative and qualitative. In this study quantitative, determination of carbohydrate has done by Antron method by spectrophotometry (HITACHI 340 ) in 625 nm. The percent of total carbohydrates in gum arabic is 6.51 %. Also in this study qualitative specified that there are pentoses and hexoses and uronic acid in gum arabic by TLC method. In this method used– methylethylketone several reagentes and solventes that best is formic acid – tertiary butanol – water and anisidine – phthalic acid – ethanol.
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