VERBASCOSE

Verbascose (CAS# 546-62-3) is an α-galactooligosaccharide with immunomodulatory activity in mouse macrophage RAW264.7 cells.

Verbascose is widely present in legumes and are indigestible by humans because of a lack of α-galactosidase. As a result, these compounds undergo fermentation in the colon with the concomitant production of CO2, H2, and CH4, commonly referred to as flatulence.

ChEBI: Verbascose is a pentasaccharide that is stachiose which has an additional unit of alpha-D-galactopyranose attached by a 1->6 glycosidic linkage to the terminal galactosyl residue. It is a pentasaccharide and a raffinose family oligosaccharide. It is functionally related to a stachyose.