Aloe Vera is one of the few plants that gets a mention across diverse cultures and eons. And no wonder Aloe Vera is a common medicinal plant that is has a powerhouse of significant nutritional ingredients.
The one I will discuss to today is Glyconutrients. Aloe is one of the rare plants to contain an abundance of the essential sugars or glyconutrients. Aloe only contains 3 glyconutrients - Mannose, Galactose and Arabinose. However, it is the rich Mannose (acemannan) content that gives Aloe the edge.
According to Dr. H.R. McDaniel, who has spent 16 years exploring the therapeutic nature of Aloe, its active ingredients are eight chains of Mannose sugars that form the eight essential sugars
Glucose, Galactose, Mannose, Fructose, Xylose, N-Acetylglucosamine, N-acetylgalactosamine, and N-acetylneuraminic acid. These Mannose molecules join together to form a kind of starch (polysaccharide chain) which are known by a variety of names - acemannan, acetylated polymannans, polymannose, or APM.
As Mannose has the ability to form the eight essential sugars it may be the single most important of the eight sugars for us to get plenty of.
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