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Table 5. Viscosity, Solubility, <strong>and</strong> Bulk Density <strong>of</strong> Crawfish <strong>and</strong> Commercial Chitosans<br />

Sample Viscosity (cP) Solubility (%)<br />

Bulk Density (g/ml)<br />

tapped untapped<br />

DCMPA 563.7 (68.07) a 93.3 (0.61) a 0.23 (0.008) bc 0.19 (0.008) b<br />

DMCPA 444.9 (78.59) ab 94.2 (0.81) a 0.23 (0.007) c 0.18 (0.007) b<br />

DMPCA 131.8 (15.96) c 94.3 (0.80) a 0.20 (0.004) d 0.16 (0.006) c<br />

DMPAC 1.0 (1.48) c 94.0 (0.69) a 0.24 (0.004) b 0.19 (0.003) b<br />

DPMCA (control) 403.3 (25.23) ab 93.9 (0.33) a 0.23 (0.009) bc 0.19 (0.006) b<br />

Vanson 75 144.9 (21.38) c 93.9 (1.27) a 0.17 (0.005) e 0.14 (0.003) d<br />

Sigma 91 384.5 (24.08) b 87.8 (2.34) b 0.31 (0.003) a 0.24 (0.004) a<br />

Numbers in parentheses are st<strong>and</strong>ard deviations. Means with different letters in each column are<br />

significantly different (p < 0.05). DCMPA=decolorized, demineralized, deproteinized,<br />

deacetylated; DMCPA= demineralized, decolorized, deproteinized, deacetylated; DMPCA=<br />

demineralized, deproteinized, decolorized, deacetylated; DMPAC= demineralized,<br />

deproteinized, deacetylated, decolorized; <strong>and</strong> DPMCA= deproteinized, demineralized,<br />

decolorized, deacetylated. Commercial samples (Vanson75 <strong>and</strong> Sigma91).<br />

Bough et al. (1978) stated that viscosity <strong>of</strong> <strong>chitosan</strong>s varied considerably from 60 to<br />

5,110 cP depending on the species. When shrimp <strong>and</strong> krill were utilized the products had a high<br />

viscosity up to 5,110 cP <strong>and</strong> 5,074 cP, respectively.<br />

Our <strong>crawfish</strong> samples had viscosity ranging from 1.0 to 563.7 cP. DCMPA had the<br />

highest viscosity (563.7 cP) but comparable to that <strong>of</strong> DMCPA <strong>and</strong> DPMCA (444.9 cP <strong>and</strong> 403.3<br />

cP, respectively), where<strong>as</strong> DMPAC had a very low viscosity (1.0 cP)(Table 5). The two<br />

commercial crab <strong>chitosan</strong>s showed lower viscosity values than our <strong>crawfish</strong> samples. Some<br />

residual <strong>as</strong>h may have affected their solubility, consequently contributing to a lower viscosity.<br />

When molecular weight is lower, viscosity also tends to decre<strong>as</strong>e (No et al., 2000). On the b<strong>as</strong>is<br />

<strong>of</strong> these composite observations, it is apparent that DMPAC is the c<strong>as</strong>e. DMPAC yielded 1.6%<br />

<strong>as</strong>h, which w<strong>as</strong> relatively higher than other samples, <strong>and</strong> had the lowest MW, thus contributed to<br />

the lowest viscosity <strong>of</strong> 1.0 cP. From this study, it is more than likely that when the deacetylation<br />

process changes its order from the st<strong>and</strong>ard method (i.e., DMPAC in this study), significant<br />

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