“…The neutral sugar side chains (especially arabinan) have mobile properties in solution, which may limit the association of the main chain with polyphenols (Ha, Vi€ etor, Jardine, Apperley, & Jarvis, 2005). As a result, the presence of less sugar branches on the polysaccharide backbone could allow a linear structure to more easily bind/stack with polyphenols (Ha et al, 2005;Watrelot, Le Bourvellec, Imberty, & Renard, 2014). Therefore, OBG is proposed to more likely bind with tea polyphenols than WAX (which contains only monosaccharide branches), which in turn is more likely to bind than CP (which contains longer branches and a charged backbone both of which would limit binding), and thus showed the largest reducing effect on the binding of tea polyphenols with PPA due to the competitive mechanism.…”