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 AdditivesLocust 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 AdditivesXanthan 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 SaccharidesKonjac - 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 AdditivesAlginic 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 extractsAlginate - 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 ChemistryCarrageenan - 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 SaccharidesSide 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 APIToxicity of Pyrimethamine
Pyrimethamine, sold under the brand name Daraprim among others, is a medication used with leucovorin (leucovorin is used to decrease side effects of pyrimethamine; it does not have intrinsic anti-para
Mar 9,2022 APIMechanism of action of Pyrimethamine
Pyrimethamine was one of the first of many 2,4-diaminopyrimidines to be synthesized and tested for antimicrobial activity.The main value of pyrimethamine has been its antiprotozoal activity, especiall
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