Saponin - Wikipedia
网页Saponins (Latin "sapon", soap + "-in", one of) are bitter-tasting usually toxic plant-derived secondary metabolites, being organic chemicals, that have a foamy quality when agitated in water and a high molecular weight.
What Are Saponins: Foods, Risks and Benefits | livestrong
网页2024年1月11日 · Find out what are saponins, the foods they're in and why they have earned a reputation for being anti-nutrients as well as saponins' health benefits.
Saponin Synthesis and Function - PMC - National Center for ...
网页Saponins are one of the most numerous and diverse groups of plant natural products. They serve a range of ecological roles including plant defence against disease and herbivores and possibly as allelopathic agents in competitive interactions between plants.
Perspectives on Saponins: Food Functionality and Applications
网页2023年8月31日 · Saponins are a diverse group of naturally occurring plant secondary metabolites present in a wide range of foods ranging from grains, pulses, and green leaves to sea creatures. They consist of a hydrophilic sugar moiety linked to a lipophilic aglycone, resulting in an amphiphilic nature and unique functional properties.
Saponin | Plant Extracts, Foaming Agents, Detergents
网页Saponin, any of numerous substances, occurring in plants, that form stable foams with water, including the constituents of digitalis and squill that affect the heart and another group that does not affect the heart. Saponins affecting the heart have been used as arrow and spear poisons by African.
Saponin - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
网页Saponins are steroidal and triterpene compounds bound to sugar molecules. They produce soap-like foaming when shaken with water, having both a hydrophilic part (glycoside) and lipophilic part (triterpene). Some saponins act as antifeedants, protecting the plant from microbes, fungi, and animals.
Saponin - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics
网页Saponins are secondary plant metabolites that form stable and soap-like foams in aqueous solution. Saponins contain carbohydrate moiety (mono/oligosaccharides) linked to a hydrophobic aglycone (sapogenin). Saponins are potential pharmaceutical and/or nutraceutical agents.
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