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Table 4 Yields of crude water-soluble polysaccharides (WSP) content and β-linked WSP

From: Comparison of nutritional composition, bioactivities, and FTIR- ATR microstructural properties of commercially grown four mushroom species in Sri Lanka; Agaricus bisporus, Pleurotus ostreatus, Calocybe sp. (MK-white), Ganoderma lucidum

Sample

Crude polysaccharide content (%) DW

β-linked polysaccharide content (%) DW

G. lucidum

4.43 ± 0.02d

1.12 ± 0.00d

A. bisporus

9.16 ± 0.03c

6.34 ± 0.01c

P. ostreatus

17.20 ± 0.13a

11.12 ± 0.12b

Calocybe sp.

14.43 ± 0.11b

12.45 ± 0.02a

  1. Data represent the mean values ± SD (n = 3) of three independent experiments. Means followed by the same letters in a row are not significantly different (P < 0.05)