肿瘤是威胁人类生存的重大疾病,寻找能治愈或预防这些疾病的药物和食物对人类的正常生存有非常重要的意义。活性多糖是一类具有广泛生物活性的物质,本文就其抗肿瘤和抗突变功能加以综述。 Tumor is a serious disease that threatens human survival. Finding drugs and foods that can cure or prevent these diseases is very important to human’s normal life. Active polysaccharides are a class of substances with a wide range of biological activity, this article on its anti-tumor and anti-mutation function are reviewed.