“…It was reported that the molecular weight distribution of TPS was ranged from 0.4 9 10 4 to 40.5 9 10 4 Da, and it was composed of rhamnose, arabinose, mannose, glucose, galactose and uronic acid (Zhang et al, 2013). TPS has attracted much attention due to its various bioactivities, such as antioxidant, immunomodulatory, hypoglycaemic, hypolipidaemic and anticancer activities (Li et al, 2016). In particular, as natural hypoglycaemic functional food or alternative medicine, TPS was shown an effective inhibitor towards a-amylase in the range of 65-82% (Wang et al, 2010;Xiao et al, 2011).…”