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Carrageenan is best known for making carrageenan jelly powder
Introduction
Carrageenan is best known for making carrageenan jelly powder. Carrageenan is a naturally-occurring family of polysaccharides extracted from red seaweed.It is used as a gelling, thickening, and stabilizing agent in a wide range of food and beverage applications. Carrageenan can be used as an extender and stabilizer in processed meat & poultry products.
Carrageenan, a multifunctional ingredient extracted from red algae that are harvested in the sea, commonly used as a gelling agent, thickener, stabilizer in food categories, like meat, jellies, ice creams, and puddings. The European food additive number for it is E407 and E407a (with cellulose content). Generally, it is safe, natural, vegan, halal, kosher and gluten free.
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Application
Carrageenan has strong stability, and the dry powder is not easy to degrade after long-term placement. It is also stable in neutral and alkaline solutions and does not hydrolyze even when heated. However, in acidic solutions (especially pH ≤ 4.0), carrageenan is prone to acid hydrolysis, and the gel strength and viscosity decrease.
1. Carrageenan as a good coagulant, can replace agar, gelatin and pectin. Jelly made from carrageenan is elastic and not water dissociating, so it is a common gelling agent for jellies.
2. The method of producing fruit gummies from carrageenan has been around for a long time. It is more transparent than agar and less expensive than agar. Adding to general hard candy and gummies can make the product taste smooth, more elastic, less viscous, and more stable.
3. Although carrageenan is not suitable as a primary stabilizer, it can be used as a good costabilizer to prevent whey separation at very low concentrations. In the making of ice cream and ice cream, carrageenan helps to distribute fat and other solid components evenly. It makes ice cream and ice cream finely organized, smooth and delicious.
Product specification
| Product name | Carrageenan |
| Item | Standard |
| Appearance | White to yellowish powder |
| Moisture (105ºC, 4h) (%) | ≤15 |
| Total ash (750ºC, 4h) (%) | 15~40 |
| Viscosity (1.5%,75ºC mPa.s) | ≥10 |
| Total sulphate (%) | 15~40 |
| PH (1.5% w/w, 60ºC) | 7~10 |
| As (mg/kg) | ≤3 |
| Pb (mg/kg) | 5 |
| Cd (mg/kg) | ≤1 |
| Hg (mg/kg) | ≤1 |
| Acid insoluble ash (%) | ≤1 |
| Total plate count (cfu/g) | ≤5000 |