What is Xanthan Gum?
Xanthan gum is a popular food additive that's commonly added to foods as a thickener or stabilizer.Though Xanthan gum sounds like it was created in a science lab, it's an entirely natural product. Made from fermented corn sugar that has been broken down by a plant bacteria called Xanthomonas campestris, the remaining residue is then dried and turned into a powder known as the food additive xanthan gum.
Xanthan gum has become a vital ingredient in gluten free baking. It helps goods made from gluten-free flours like almond flour and buckwheat flour bind together and develops elasticity-a job commonly completed by gluten. For individuals with celiac disease or gluten sensitivity, this ingredient plays a vital role in recreating traditionally gluten-full treats sans gluten.
These binding properties create goods with similar textures that hold together during the baking process. Many gluten free recipes don't bind well without xanthan gum and result in baked goods that crumble. Xanthan gum recreates gluten's stickiness while ensuring that the recipe remains gluten free.When xanthan gum powder is added to a liquid, it quickly disperses and creates a viscous and stable solution. This makes it a great thickening, suspending and stabilizing agent for many products.
Xanthan gum description:
Xanthan gum is an extracellular acidic heteropolysaccharide produced by the fermentation of xanthomonas campestris bacterium. Made from corn starch and other carbohydrates through the processes of cluturing, extracting, evaporating and grinding, it is widely used in industries such as food, oil, ming and textile.
Function:
Widely used as salt/acid resistant thickener, high efficient suspension agent and emulsifier, high viscosity filling agent in
various food and beverage. It can not only enhance the performance of water-keeping and shape-keeping, but also improve the freeze/thaw stability and taste of food and beverage products.
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Potential Functions:
Animal Feed & Nutrition
Beverages
Cosmetics & Pharmaceuticals
Food
Industrial & General
Pet Foods
Sports Nutrition
Potential Functions:
Emulsifier
Humectant
Stabilizer
Thickener
Potential Applications:
Adhesives Joint Care Preserve
Bakery Meat, Fish & Poultry Protein Drinks
Cleaning Chemicals Non-Alcoholic Drinks Ready Meals
Confectionary Oral Care Skin Care
Dairy Personal Care Snack Foods
Dressings & Sauces Paints Supplements
Health Care Pet Food Water Treatment
1. The field of food
Xanthan gum can improve the texture, consistency, flavor, shelf life and appearance of many foods. It is often used in gluten-free cooking because it can provide the elasticity and bulkiness that gluten gives traditional baked goods.
2. The field of cosmetics
Xanthan gum is also found in many personal care and beauty products. It thickens these products but also runs out easily.
3. Industrial field Xanthan gum is used in many industrial products because it can withstand different temperatures and pH values, adhere to the surface and thicken the liquid, while maintaining good fluidity.
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Xanthan gum can be widely used in more than twenty industrail fields, such as food, pharmaceutial, fine chemical, agriculture, oil drilling and explotation and so on.
Because of its unique properties, xanthan gum has been widely used in more than a dozen fields, such as food, petroleum, medicine, daily chemical industry, etc. Its high degree of commercialization and wide range of application make any other microbial polysaccharide unmatched.
1, food: many foods are added to Xanthan gum as a stabilizer, emulsifier, suspension agent, thickening agent and processing aid. Xanthan gum can control the rheology, structure, flavor and appearance of the product, and its false plasticity can ensure good taste, so it is widely used in salad dressing, bread, dairy products, frozen food, drinks, condiments, brewing, candy, pastry, soup and canned food. In recent years, people in more developed countries often worry that the calorific value of food is too high and will make them fat. Xanthan gum can not be directly degraded by the human body to dispel people's concerns. In addition, it was reported in that xanthan gum was the most effective anticancer agent among eleven food additives tested in comparison.
2, daily chemical industry: Xanthan gum molecules contain a large number of hydrophilic groups, is a good surface active substance, and has antioxidant, prevent skin aging and other effects, therefore, almost the vast majority of high-grade cosmetics are xanthan gum as its main functional components. In addition, xanthan gum can also be used as a substance of toothpaste thickening and shaping, reducing the surface wear of teeth.
3. Medical aspects: Xanthan gum is a functional component in microcapsule drug materials, which is currently hot in the world, and plays an important role in controlling the slow release of drugs. Due to its strong hydrophilicity and water retention, there are many specific medical applications, such as the formation of a dense water film, thus avoiding skin infection; Relieve thirst after radiotherapy. In addition, Li Xin and Xu Lei have written that xanthan gum itself can significantly enhance the humoral immune function of mice.
4, industrial and agricultural applications: in the petroleum industry, due to its strong pseudoplasticity, low concentration of xanthan gum (0.5%) aqueous solution can maintain the viscosity of drilling fluid and control its rheological properties, so in the high-speed rotation of the bit site viscosity is very small, save power; High viscosity is maintained in the relatively static borehole area to prevent wall collapse. And because of its excellent salt resistance and heat resistance, it is widely used in Marine, high salt zone and other special environment drilling, and can be used as oil recovery agent, reduce dead oil areas, improve oil recovery rate.
