Abstract
Rice straw, an abundant agricultural waste, possesses immense potential to serve as renewable, eco-friendly and non-edible feedstock to generate value-added products. Therefore, the present study aimed to obtain prebiotic neutral xylooligosaccharides (XOS)-rich autohydrolysate from rice straw xylan. The central composite design of response surface methodology was employed to optimize the conditions for the alkaline extraction of xylan, i.e. NaOH concentration (6-14%, w/v), reaction time (1-3.5 h) and temperature (50-100 °C). Autohydrolysis of xylan was carried out at 121 °C and 15 psi for varied hydrolysis times (10, 25 and 40 min) and sulphuric acid concentrations (0.1, 0.5 and 1.0M) to obtain XOS-rich autohydrolysate. The optimum conditions were found to be as follows: 11.04% (w/v) NaOH, 3.126 h and 80.146 °C, so that the maximum xylan yield of 19.97% was predicted by the software. This value was quite close to the experimental yield of 19.4%, with 80.83% xylan being recovered per gram of rice straw. The best autohydrolysis treatment for xylan was found to be using 0.1M sulphuric acid for 10 min, which allowed 34.5% of 100 mg xylan to be depolymerized to produce neutral XOS (degree of polymerization up to 7), with xylose, xylobiose and xylotriose constituting 4.45, 10.14 and 7.83 mg, respectively. These autohydrolysates promoted higher growth of Lactobacillus rhamnosus and Lactobacillus casei than established prebiotic fructooligosaccharides. The study attempts to solve disposal issues of rice straw through production of XOS-rich autohydrolysates in demand on the global nutraceuticals market.
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