Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Ingredient Name
- Ingredient Origin
- Food Ingredients Functions
- Ingredients
- Tara Gum
- Food Additive Number
- E 417, INS 417
- Technologies
Features & Benefits
- Labeling Claims
- Food Ingredients Features
Applications & Uses
- Markets
- Applications
- Food & Nutrition Applications
- Applications
- Due to its high viscosity, it is used in the Food Industry as a thickener in the preparation of ready soup, spicy sauces, and ketchups, among others.
- In the Bakery industry is used as a dough conditioner, provides smoothness, improves the texture and keeps the humidity of the products prolonging its shelf life.
- In meat industry has the following properties: as a thickener, gelifier, thermo stabilizer (freezing cycles resistant), water retention agent, stables over pH 3.5, soluble in cold, prevents crystallization and syneresis.
- In the dairy food, like ice cream, acts as an efficient gelifier setting water to avoid ice crystal fromation and in yogurt sets water, stabilizes the product and increases the yield.
- In the industry of desserts and jellies, it acts as a gel.
- In the industry of juice with pulp of fruits and vegetables, it acts as a stabilizer avoiding the precipitation of the insoluble solids which could affect the appearance of the product.
- Tara gum is compatible with others gums and hydrocolloids like Locust bean gum, Guar gum, Xanthan gum, CMC, Carrageenan kappa, among others with which it has a synergistic action.
Regulatory & Compliance
- Certifications & Compliance