What is carrageenan?
Category: Food
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I would like to ask what is carrageenan can be certain of is that it is a food with plastic, other information I do not know, who can tell me the details of it ?
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carrageenan from red algae Chondrus ocellatus genus Eucheuma genera, cedar and Hypnea algae and other species are extracted from seaweed seaweed polysaccharides collectively. Different sources have different fine structure, their colloidal properties are not the same, have been named kappa (kappa), iota (E Outa), lambda (Lai Muda), mu (Miao), nu (NZ) , theta (zeta), xi (West), carrageenan, etc., but commercial production is mainly the first three. Carrageenan is mainly used in food industry, gelling, thickening, stability, and holding agent functions in dairy drinks for SC; in pudding, yogurt, whipped cream, ice cream, cheese, used as thickening stabilizers; in sausage, ham production as a holding agent; jelly used as a gelling agent.
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