Health Food Inulin

Introduction Inulin is a kind of reserved polysaccharide, mainly extracted from plants. There’s very rich inulin contained in jerusalem artichoke tuber, peony tuber and thistle tuber and other plants. Inulin existed in the cell protoplasm with colloidal form. It’s easy to be dissolved in hot water, and will be seperated out from water if adding ethyl alcohol; and it will not react with iodine. Inulin is easy to be hydrolyzed to fructose in diluted acid condition, which is the common characteristic of fructosan.