Patent ID: 8551250

Claim:
Method of extracting a carbohydrate from a carbohydrate juice, said method comprising the steps of: a) providing an adsorbent having unsaturated hydrocarbon groups exposed on its (internal) surface wherein said groups are capable of adsorbing a carbohydrate to the surface of the adsorbent by CH/π interaction, and optionally in addition by hydrogen bonding, with the proviso that said adsorbent is not an ion exchanger; b) contacting said carbohydrate juice with said adsorbent under conditions by which said carbohydrate is adsorbed to said adsorbent by CH/π interaction, and optionally in addition by hydrogen bonding, and c) desorbing said carbohydrate from said adsorbent by increasing the temperature of the carbohydrate-adsorbent complex.