Dried dahlia tuber

Dried dahlia tuber

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Objective: Dahlia tuber (Dahlia sp.) is one of the inulin sources that could be planted in Indonesia. Inulin is fructan-based polysaccharide. Therefore, the research aimed to investigate inulin from the extract of dahlia tuber as a drug excipient, especially for nanoparticles based on inulin-cysteamine thiomer. Methods: Crude inulin was isolated fr...

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... tuber was red dahlia obtained from Kendal Regency, Central Java, Indonesia, and was cultivated and grown for more than 7 mo ( fig. 1). The isolated inulin was dark brown; it was suspected that the process of inulin isolation was not optimal (fig. 2). The brown color was caused by the Maillard reaction (browning) in the presence of protein. The solution for browning was to add activated charcoal. ...