DEVOTION Sodium Alginate is a polysaccharide extracted from kelp-like Phaeophyceae, which is widely used in food, pharmacy, textile, printing, dyeing, paper making and other daily chemical products. It is formed by α-L-Mannuronic acid and β-D-Guluronic acid connected through 1, 4-glucosidic bond and showed white or light yellow amorphous powder, odorless, tasteless, and soluble in water, insoluble in alcohol and other organic solvents.
APPLICATIONS
1) In Food:
- Stabilizer: As a stabilizer of ice cream replacing starch and carrageenan, Sodium Alginate can avoid ice crystal and make the product tasty. It also applies to the mixed drinks, such as beer, iced fruit juice and iced milk, etc. When adding some into dairy products like refined cheese, canned cream and dry cheese, the final product will not stick to the package. Moreover, Sodium Alginate can keep the product fine and avoid of splitting open if it is used as a cover of milky food.
- Thickener and Emulsifier: Can raise the product's stabilization and decrease the liquid out when it is used in pudding (a sweet pastry) jam, tomato ketchup and the canned products.
- Hydration: Is used in noodles and othercooked wheaten food to make the food has a strong cohesiveness, pulling, bending and reduce breaking, it can also be used to hold water during baking so that the bread can become more tasty. Adding some into iced sweet products, Sodium Alginate will come into being a protecting cover against heated quickly, and it can quicken the flavor sending forth, raise melting point of the products.
- Gelling property: wildly used in Candy Industries: is suitable to make kinds of gel product. It also fits iced products and man-made products. Using this specific property, it can be used as a cover for fruit, meat and seaweed products away from air and keep it stored longer. In addition, it also can be used as the sugar coating of bread, the cover of filling and cake and the canned food, which will not change in high/low temperature and acid conditions. It also can replace carrageenan to make a crystal soft sugar, elastic, un-sticky, transparent.
2) Healthcare products: Sodium alginate is an important dietary fiber, which has unique nutrients and can reduce the cholesterol in the serum and liver, inhibit elevated levels of total fat and fatty acids, it also help the digestion and absorption of nutrients, as well as the inhibition of radioactive strontium, the absorption of cadmium and other harmful elements in the body.
3) Pharmaceuticals:Adhesive, bio-adhesive, controlling retard tablets, medical dressing, tooth model materials and curing agents.
4) Feed Industry: Feed binder, pet food binder.
5) Daily chemicals:Facial masks, gelatinizer and stabilizer for cosmetics.
6) Other Industries: Used as thickening agent, adhesive and curing agents for printing paste, water treatment, agriculture, welding electrode, papermaking, ceramics, etc.
BENEFITS
DEVOTION Sodium Alginate is an excellent thickener which can be used in many field and industries. Can be a good replacement of Carrageenan in Food industry. The strong gelling property allows it to be used from applications ranging from ice cream, to hard candy to confectionary.
Storage:
Tightly sealed in a clean, cool, dry area, keep away from strong, and direct light.
Shelf Life:
2 years when properly stored.