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B&V - The Agar Company SPREADAGAR

B&V - The Agar Company Spreadagar is a complete range of tailored food grade agar agar powders specially developed to be used in spreadable jams, marmalades, glazing and piping gel.

Ingredient Name: Agar

Functions: Texturizing Agent

Labeling Claims: Natural, Naturally Derived

Physical Form: Powder, Solid

Features: Good Transparency, Improved Water Binding, Low Viscosity, Soft Texture, Solubilizing

End Uses: Cheese, Dairy Drinks, Dessert Toppings, Glazings, Icing, Jams, Marmalades

    Knowde Enhanced TDS

    Identification & Functionality

    Ingredient Name
    Ingredient Origin
    Food Ingredients Functions
    Ingredients
    Agar
    Food Additive Number
    E 406, INS 406
    Technologies

    Features & Benefits

    Product Highlights

    Spreadagar provides a high water binding capacity and excellent sugar synergy to ensure limited cracking due to dehydration during storage.

    Applications & Uses

    Applications

     

    Glazing, piping gel, icing, fondant, spreadable cheese, ice cream toppings, drinkable dairy

    Properties

    Physical Form

    Technical Details & Test Data

    Properties

    Low to ultra low gel strength (50-300 gr/cm2)
    Low viscosity and good transparency
    Excellent solubility for fast heating system
    High synergy with sugars and other hydrocolloids
    Low synaeresis and outstanding water binding capacity
    High resistence at low pH
    Provides a soft texture appropriate for spreadable products
    Fat/protein replacing texture in dietetic/light products