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Seed gums

Polysaccharides derived from plants and seeds have been in use for thousand of years. Seed gums are a group of polysaccharides with the following properties:

  • Seed gums are light to dark cream colored amorphous powder characterized by forming viscous or clear solutions when dispersed or dissolved in cold or hot water.
  • They produce low to high viscosity depending upon the source and manufacturing process. They have property of forming high viscosity even at low concentration (4500-8000 cP at 1% w/v) where cP=centipoise, measure scale of viscosity.
  • Seed gums are stable over a wide range of pH(3-9). The nonionic nature of the polymer is responsible for almost constant viscosity of the solution.
  • They have excellent compatibility characteristic with organic, inorganic substance including certain dyes and various constituents of food.
  • They show effective settling (flocculation) properties even at lower concentration.

 


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