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saponin

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Quinoa cooks faster than rice, but it needs to be washed/rinsed thoroughly beforehand to remove the saponin soap like coating.

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Quick take

(organic chemistry, biochemistry) Any of various steroid glycosides found in plant tissues that dissolve in water to give a soapy froth.

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noun

(organic chemistry, biochemistry) Any of various steroid glycosides found in plant tissues that dissolve in water to give a soapy froth.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for saponin.

noun

(organic chemistry, biochemistry) Any of various steroid glycosides found in plant tissues that dissolve in water to give a soapy froth.

Example sentences

1

Quinoa cooks faster than rice, but it needs to be washed/rinsed thoroughly beforehand to remove the saponin soap like coating.

2

I've been told to wash the Quinoa to remove the saponin from it before cooking, which worked on occasion.

3

Rinse quinoa until there's no more foam/bubbles from the saponin.

4

I like the Novavax approach using a saponin adjuvant.

5

If you ever read an ethnobotany piece and it mentions that a certain plant is used to kill fish in a pond, it's likely a saponin-rich plant (which also means it's likely to be good to make soap out of).

6

...plus the 'Matrix-M1' adjuvant - saponin from tree bark.

Quote examples

1

Same etymology as the phytochemical "saponins" which, besides making soap, has a ton of uses and is easy to identify One very common use of saponin-containing plants is for stupefying fish.

2

"The spike protein in this vaccine is produced in insect cells; the Matrix M-adjuvant contains saponin extracts from the bark of the Soapbark tree that is native to Chile."

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How do you use saponin in a sentence?

Quinoa cooks faster than rice, but it needs to be washed/rinsed thoroughly beforehand to remove the saponin soap like coating.

What does saponin mean?

(organic chemistry, biochemistry) Any of various steroid glycosides found in plant tissues that dissolve in water to give a soapy froth.

What part of speech is saponin?

saponin is commonly used as noun.