Types of Dietary Fiber

Dietary fiber is the edible parts of plants and analogous carbohydrates that are resistant to digestion and absorption in the human small intestine with complete or partial fermentation in the large i

Mar 10,2022  Chemical Materials

Curdlan - Ingredient in Meat Products

Curdlan is a linear homopolymer of d -glucose with β-(1, 3) glucosidic linkages, and is produced commercially from the fermentation of glucose by the bacterium Alcaligenes faecalis var. myxogenes.

Mar 10,2022  Food Additives

Gellan Gum - Application in Food Industry

Gellan gum is a high-molecular weight extracellular heteropolysaccharide produced by fermentation of a carbohydrate with a pure culture of the bacterium Sphingomonas elodea .

Mar 10,2022  Food Additives

Locust Bean Gum - Application in Food Industry

LBG is a galactomannan vegetable gum extracted from the seeds of the carob tree. Also called carob gum or carubin, it is commonly used as a thickener and gelling agent in food products. LBG is less so

Mar 10,2022  Food Additives

Xanthan Gum - Application in Food Industry

Xanthan gum is produced by a biotechnological process involving fermentation of glucose or sucrose by the Xanthomonas campestris bacterium. Xanthan is a long chain polysaccharide composed of the sugar

Mar 10,2022  Saccharides

Konjac - Application in Meat Products

Konjac is the generic name for the flour formed from grinding the root of the Amorphophallus konjac (elephant yam) plant (FMC Biopolymer, 1994) . It is a food ingredient containing a high-molecular we

Mar 10,2022  Food Additives

Alginic acid - Application in Meat Manufacturing Industry

Alginic acid is a copolymer of two uronic acids, mannuronic and guluronic, is extracted from brown seaweed, and has the unique property of forming a gel in the presence of a divalent cation.

Mar 10,2022  Plant extracts

Alginate - Application in Meat Products

Increasing the value of under-utilized muscles of food animals has been the target of many published reports involving alginate. Many of these muscles, usually originating from the hind leg or shoulde

Mar 10,2022  Organic Chemistry

Carrageenan - Application in Meat Products

Carrageenan is a high molecular weight linear hydrophilic polysaccharide comprising repeating galactose units and 3,6-anhydrogalactose (3,6 AG) units, both sulfated and nonsulfated.

Mar 10,2022  Saccharides

Side effects of Dapsone

Dapsone (4,4'-diaminodiphenylsulfone) is a sulfone that was the first effective antimicrobial for the treatment of leprosy. It has since been found useful in the treatment and prevention of malaria, P

Mar 9,2022  API
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