New progress in research on characteristic oligosaccharides of goat milk

News from this newspaper (Reporter Gao Na) Wang Zhongfu's team from the Center for Glycoengineering, School of Food Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, has established a high-sensitivity separation and identification method for goat milk by conducting in-depth research on the mass spectrometry analysis of free oligosaccharide galactosyl lactose, which is characteristic of goat milk.

Goat milk has the advantages of high nutritional value, easy digestion and absorption, and low allergenicity.

Wang Zhongfu's team has carried out a series of work on goat milk oligosaccharide research for many years.

This study found that galactosyl lactose is the most abundant oligosaccharide structure in goat milk and has various isomers, namely: β6'-GL, α6'-GL, β4'-GL, α3'-GL and β3'-GL, of which α6'-GL and β4'-GL are the first discovered galactosyl lactose structures characteristic of goat milk

"China Food News" (August 03, 2022 Edition 04)

(Editor-in-charge: Gao Na)