“…Arabinose is a five carbon sugar, one of the main monomers in the hemicellulose of softwoods. It can be used as a non-caloric sweetener, dietary fiber, in flavors and as an intermediate for the synthesis of different drugs, mainly related to human diabetes, bacteriological diagnostics, anti-virus, production of vitamin B2 (Aguedo et al, 2013;Jiang et al, 2015). Despite of these important uses, arabinose commercial production is still nowadays a complex and expensive process consisting of acid hydrolysis of Arabic gum or other raw materials followed by multiple procedures of purification (Cheng et al, 2011), so the development of an alternative and easier process (starting, for example, from a low-value raw material such as the hemicellulose) would be very interesting.…”