Chemical characterization and antioxidant of polysaccharide extracted from Dioscorea bulbifera

The air yam (Dioscorea bulbifera) is an unconventional vegetable that produces a reserve stem, which has polysaccharides in its composition. These biopolymers, in turn, have aroused industrial interest due to many of their properties and applications in several areas, such as agro-food, chemical, pharmaceutical, textile, metallurgical, oil, among others. The objective of this work is to characterize the polysaccharide present in the raw and...