Extraction and Antioxidant Activity Analysis of Crude Polysaccharides from Wild Lactarius volemus Fr. in Yunnan Province

[ Objective ] This study aimed to investigate the optimal extraction process of crude polysaccharides from wild Lactarius volemus Fr. in Yunnan Province and preliminarily analyzed its antioxidant activity in vitro. [ Method ] With water extraction and alcohol precipitation method, the optimal conditions for extracting crude polysaccharides from wild L. volemus Ft. were screened by single-factor and orthogonal experiments. The antioxidant activity of the extracted crude polysac- charides was determined with DPPH assay. [ Result ] The optimal conditions for pigment removal with activated carbon were： activated carbon amount of 20 g/L, water bath time of 40 min, water bath temperature of40 ℃ ; the optimal conditions for extracting crude polysaccharides from wild L. vo/emus Fr. with hot water ex- traction method were： hot water extraction time of 3 h, solid-liquid ratio of 1： 45, extraction frequency of twice. Under the optimized extraction conditions, the yield of crude polysaccharides was 21.33 mg/g. In addition, the antioxidant activity of 0. 665 mg/ml crude polysaccharides was 52.46% ; the amount of crude polysac- eharides was proportional to the antioxidant activity. [ Conclusion] Hot water extraction method can be used as a high-efficiency extraction technology of crude pol- ysaecharides from wild L. volemus Fr. with simple operation and low costs. Crude polysaccharides extracted from L. volemus Ft. exhibited certain antioxidant activi- ty in vitro.