Did You Get Your Seaweed This Morning

Title:
Did You Get Your Seaweed This Morning?
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Fucose is a Glyconutrient. There are 8 saccharides that make up this family:
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Mannose
Glucose
Galactose
Xylose:
Fucose (not fructose)
N-acetylglucosamine

N-acetylneuramic acid
N-acetylgalactosamine

Fucose can be found in natural products like seaweed and echinoderms. From ancient times human
When handling wet kelp you will experience a ...

Keywords:
glyconutrients,fucose,fucoidans,glyconutrient

Article Body:
Fucose is a Glyconutrient. There are 8 saccharides that make up this family:
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Mannose
Glucose
Galactose
Xylose:
Fucose (not fructose)
N-acetylglucosamine
N-acetylneuramic acid
N-acetylgalactosamine

Fucose can be found in natural products like seaweed and echinoderms. From ancient times human

When handling wet kelp you will experience a slimy sensation. This is largely due to fucoidans

Brown seaweed kelp is used to extract alginates for industrial, pharmaceutical, and food purpo

Fucoidans are made up mainly of the saccharide fucose. They have been found in brown marine al

There are many different types of brown kelp, which vary in the amount of fucose they have. Re

They assist the kelp plant by protecting it and help its cell walls not to get damaged with ch


Fucose is also useful for helping the human immune system and assisting the body to ward off i
Fucose can also have an effect on enzymes by promoting and inhibiting them. It has been found

There are many uses for this useful glyconutrient and it is only just recently that these uses

Only during the last 10 years scientists have been researching the family of foods known as th

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