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Product Introduction:
Carrageenan is made up of sodium, potassium, magnesium and calcium sulfate esters of galactose and 3,6-anhydrogalactose units. It is a wholly natural ingredient obtained from certain species of the red seaweed, class Rhodophyceae. Popular sources for carrageenan are the Chondrus crispus, Eucheuma cottonii and Eucheuma spinosum species.
Carrageenan
There are three carrageenan types which are of commercial interest because of the various applications
of the hydrocolloid in food and other industrial uses. They are called the iota, kappa and lambda carrageenan.
Henan Boom Carrageenan uses the Eucheuma cottonii for the production of kappa carrageenan
and the Eucheuma spinosum for the iota carrageenan.
Iota, kappa and lambda are copolymers which differ in their chemical structure, properties and
therefore in their applications in food.
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Iota |
Gels most strongly with calcium salts Elastic gel with no syneresis (weeping out of water) Gel is freeze-thaw stable Completely soluble in hot water |
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Kappa |
Gels most strongly with potassium salts Brittle gel with some syneresis Synergistic with locust bean gum Soluble in hot water |
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Lambda |
No gel formation, forms high viscosity solutions Fully soluble in cold water |
Application:
Food industry
Carrageenan can be used as gelling agent, thickener, stabilizer, suspending agent and clarifier,
and can be used in products such as soft candy, jelly, sausage, canned meat, ice cream, beverage, condiment, milk, bionic food, jam, canned thick soup, beer, bread, pet food and so on;
Pharmaceutical industry
It can be used as medicine suspending agent and dispersant, and can be used to produce capsule products etc.
Daily chemical industry
It can be used in toothpaste, detergent, cosmetics and air freshener;
Biochemistry
Carrageenan can be used as carrier of microorganism and immobilized cells;
In other fields
It can be used as the thickener for waterbased paint, ceramic glaze and water color, and the suspending agent for graphite, sizing material for textile products and paper,
and the suspending agent for herbicide and pesticide, graphite deflocculant, deflocculant for textile and so on.