Rajan, AnilaNair, Giridhar R.2010-09-072010-09-072010-08Rajan, A. & Nair, G.R. (2010). Production of soya milk containing low flatulence-causing oligosaccharides in a packed bed reactor using immobilised α-galactosidase. International Journal of Food Science & Technology, 1-9.https://hdl.handle.net/10289/4547Peanut α-galactosidase was immobilised in calcium alginate beads and used to hydrolyse the flatulence-causing oligosaccharides, raffinose and stachyose, in soya milk in batch and in packed bed reactor with recycle. The immobilised enzyme exhibited a slightly lower activity than the free enzyme. The activity yield of immobilised -galactosidase was 75.1% and the immobilisation yield was 82.6%. Batch hydrolysis using immobilised enzyme at 55 °C resulted in 96% reduction in the oligosaccharides after 12 h. For the continuous process, a packed bed reactor with recycle was used. More than 98% of the oligosaccharides were hydrolysed after 6 h of reaction at 55 °C. The immobilised enzyme also proved to be stable up to three repeated hydrolysis reactions.enflatulencemultimeric enzymeraffinosesoya milkstachyoseα-galactosidaseJournal Article10.1111/j.1365-2621.2010.02354.x