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Record W4413806467 · doi:10.1186/s43014-025-00322-3

Polyphenol-polysaccharide interactions: molecular mechanisms and potential applications in food systems – a comprehensive review

2025· review· en· W4413806467 on OpenAlexafffund
Fereidoon Shahidi, Kerthika Devi Athiyappan

Bibliographic record

VenueFood Production Processing and Nutrition · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicPolysaccharides and Plant Cell Walls
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsPolyphenolPolysaccharideChemistryNutraceuticalBioavailabilityNon-covalent interactionsHydrophobic effectHydrogen bondBiochemistryOrganic chemistryMoleculeAntioxidantBiologyBioinformatics

Abstract

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Polyphenols, a major class of plant secondary metabolites, are well known for their diverse bioactive properties. It has also been established that polyphenols interact with other macromolecules, such as proteins, polysaccharides, and lipids in the food matrix. Among the primary metabolites of the plant, carbohydrates play a significant role. Polyphenols and polysaccharides form complexes upon interaction; this interaction could be through covalent or non-covalent bonds, such as electrostatic, hydrophobic, van der Waals forces, and hydrogen bonding. These polysaccharide-polyphenol complexes exhibit enhanced bioactivity and influence the digestibility of complex macronutrients (such as proteins and polysaccharides), as well as their biological efficacy, bioavailability, and stability. Despite their numerous benefits and potential applications, the underlying mechanisms of interaction and complex formation between polysaccharides and polyphenols, as well as the influence of their structural parameters, remain underexplored. This comprehensive review summarizes the basic molecular-level implications of polysaccharides and polyphenols, exploring their potential applications in the food industry, and provides a basic understanding of their occurrence in various food matrices, characteristics of both polyphenols and polysaccharides that influence their interaction mechanisms, and detection under laboratory conditions. The review aims to bridge the gap between the molecular-level understanding of the complex and the development of potential nutraceuticals and functional food ingredients based on polysaccharide-polyphenol complexation.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.011

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.028
GPT teacher head0.268
Teacher spread0.241 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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