Xanthan Gum Powder Popularly used as a replacement for egg for texture, it increases the viscosity of liquids making it an ideal thickening agent for sauces, dressings, and other frozen foods.
Xanthan Gum Powder
- Origin: India
- Form: Powder
- Application: Sauces and Frozen Food
- Packing: Bulk : 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 kg cartons & 25kg papercraft bags.
This is a product of fermentation of Xanthomonas Campestris under special conditions of nutrient medium, pH, O2 – supply, and temperature. It is precipitated, dried, and milled into white-like or light-yellow fine powder.
Properties of Xanthan Gum
- Unique pseudo-plasticity rheological property.
- High suspending effect on insoluble solids and oil droplets.
- Low concentration and high viscosity.
- Molecular structure remains unchanged under circumstance of high shear.
It is also used as an emulsifier in the cosmetic industry and for suspensions in the pharmaceutical industries.
Advantages of Xanthan Gum
- High viscosity-enhancing property and solubility in water.
- High-efficient emulsifier and stabilizer.
- Excellent stability to large range of temperature and pH change.
- Satisfying compatibility with acid, alkaline, brine, enzyme, surface active agent, antiseptic, oxidant and other thickeners.
- Perfect synergistic action when blended with guar gum, locust been gum and other colloids.
