The invention relates to a novel fructofuranosidase activity for obtaining
the prebiotic oligosaccharide 6-kestose. One object of the invention is
to characterize a novel transfructosylase activity which is associated
with the extracellular invertase of Schwanniomyces occidentalis
(specifically the strains selected from the group consisting of
ATCC260077, ATCC7410 and ATCC20499) and which can be used to obtain
prebiotic oligosaccharides, mainly 6-kestose, which are widely used in
the food industry. Another object of the invention relates to the method
for obtaining an enzymatic product as well as to the substantially pure
enzyme with fructofuranosidase activity.