What does it means aloe mucilaginous polysaccharide?

The inner fillet of any aloe plant has a mucilaginous pulp, which contains the polysaccharides, in a proportion close to 20% of the total solids.

The polysaccarides are relatively complex carbohydrates. They are polymers made up of many monosaccharides joined together by glycosidic links.

Polysaccarides are therefore very large, often branched, molecules. The aloe mucilaginous polysaccarides are non-toxic, unaltered and highly concentrated healing agent extracted from any aloe plant. It has numerous properties for life-threatening diseases and other common disorders.

After harvested, the aloe leaves has two distinct parts to be used for commercial purposes: the aloe bitter and the aloe gel.

The aloe bitter is the yellow exudate (also known as the bitter sap), which drains from the outer green skin of the leaves when cut.

Aloe: Any of various chiefly African plants of the genus Aloe, having rosettes of succulent, often spiny-margined leaves and long stalks bearing yellow, orange, or red tubular flowers.

Aloe means any species of the genus Aloe, succulent perennials of the family Lilaceae (lily family), native to the warm dry areas of South Africa (especially Cape Province) and also to tropical Africa, but cultivated elsewhere. The juice of aloe leaves contains the purgative aloin.

The Aloe Barbadensis Miller, the Aloe Saponaria, the Ferox Aloe, the Aloe Chinensis and the aloe Arborescens, are the most commercially known varieties of more than 360 species of well-known aloes.

Accordingly to a report on aloe worldwide cultivation published by IASC (International Aloe Science Council), there are close to 23,600 hectares of aloe being cultivated at worldwide level, whereas 19,100 of them are located in the Americas. This report gives the pole position in 2004 data to Mexico with 10,700 hectares, then to Dominican Republic with 3,500 and after that, Venezuela with 3,400 hectares. But numbers are growing at an interesting pace.

As per Aloetrade America and Aloetrade Argentina figures, collected from the Ministries of Agriculture in every country into the region, number of hectares where aloe is growing are on increase year by year. In Mexico, it is forecasted that close to 12,000 hectares are cultivated with aloe plantations, and in Venezuela such figure is close to 5,000 hectares, mainly devoted to aloe sap or aloe paste production, and less for aloe gel. Aloe commercial cultivation is increasing at a fast pace in Argentina, Colombia and Chile, among other south american countries. In Africa, Kenya and Tanzania are doing the most in commercial cultivation in the recent years.

Aloe is a plant with more than 360 varieties and presents several origins, but the most recognised is probably Aloe Barbadensis, better known as Aloe Vera. Although most Aloes have medicinal properties it is this particular variety that has taken the west by storm in recent years.

The aloe vera (aloe barbadensis miller) is native of the Mediterranean region (South of Europe and North Africa), whereas the aloe ferox, the aloe saponaria and the aloe arborescens are original of southern Africa.