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Appearance: Light white to light brown translucent block, or white to orange-brown granular or powder. Odorless, tasteless. In water can be gradually dissolved into acidic viscous liquid, insoluble in ethanol.
Use: thickening agent; stabilizer; emulsifier; glazed agent.
Gum Arabic was the most widely used in food industry and the largest amount of water sol, the current remains the world's annual requirement of about 4-5 million tons. Gum Arabic has good emulsifying properties, especially for oil in water emulsion system, widely used for emulsion flavor emulsion stabilizer; It also has good film-forming properties; as micro capsules into a film for the Essential Oils or other liquid material into a powder form, can extend the flavor quality and prevent oxidation, but also for baking products, flavor carrier. Gum Arabic can hinder the formation of sugar crystals, for anti-crystallization agent for candy, to prevent crystal analysis, can effectively toffee in milk fat emulsion to prevent overflow; also used to polish the surface of chocolate, so chocolate is only soluble in mouth, do not dissolve in hand; in cola and other carbonated beverages in gum arabic for emulsifying, dispersing essential oils and oil-soluble pigment, to avoid them during storage oil and pigment floating and a bottleneck at the pigment ring.
Gum Arabic is also widely used in beverage production, such as soft drinks, juice concentrate in the production of flavors and essential oils which can be stabilized. It is also used in candy making, like traditional hard (wine) gummy, candy, cotton candy can be used as foam stabilizers.
Gum Arabic is a carbohydrate polymer, can be partially degraded in the large intestine. It can be added to the body of cellulose, and starch and maltodextrin compared to less than half its energy value. More specifically, gum arabic Arab galactose oligosaccharides, polysaccharides and protein sugar mixture. According to different sources, the polysaccharide in D - galactose (gum arabic) and L - arabinose ratio is not the same. Compared with the acacia tree, gum arabic contains more 4 - O - methyl - D - glucuronic acid, and L - rhamnose and irreplaceable D - glucuronic acid are few.