Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Chemical Family
- Ingredient Name
- Ingredient Origin
- Food Ingredients Functions
- Ingredients
- Agar
- Food Additive Number
- E 406, INS 406
- Technologies
Features & Benefits
- Benefit Claims
- Labeling Claims
- Food Ingredients Features
Applications & Uses
- Markets
- Applications
- Food & Nutrition Applications
- Applications
Agarite is an ingredient used in food industry as gelling, stabilizing and thickening agent. Its main applications are fundamentally based on the enormous gelling power, high hysteresis and perfect gel reversibility. Examples of final products where Agarite is used: icings and donut covers, gelatin replacement, water jellies, sterilized canned products, dietetic marmalades, yogurts, gelled milk and other applications with speci fic textures. Guidance use: 0.5-1.0% in solution depending on the final product,texture and property to achieve.
Properties
- Physico-Chemical Properties
- Microbiological Values
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| Acid Insoluble Matter | max. 0.5 | % | — |
| Arsenic Content | max. 3 | ppm | — |
| Ash Content | max. 6.5 | % | — |
| Cadmium Content | max. 1 | ppm | — |
| Colorimetry | max. 0.3 | — | — |
| Foreign Insoluble matter | max. 1.0 | % | — |
| Gel Point (at 1.5%) | 35 - 40 | °C | — |
| Lead Content | max. 5 | ppm | — |
| Loss on Drying | max. 20 | % | — |
| Melting Point (at 1.5%) | 85 - 90 | °C | — |
| Mercury Content | max. 1 | ppm | — |
| Particle Size (Through 60 mesh) | min. 95 | % | ASTM |
| pH (at 1.5%) | 6.0 - 7.5 | — | — |
| Transparency (at 1.5%) | max. 35 | NTU | — |
| Water Absorption | max. 75 | ml | — |
| Water Gel Strength (Nikan method at 1.5% at 20°C) | 700 - 1000 | g/cm2 | — |
| Value | Units | Test Method / Conditions | |
| TAMC | max. 5000 | CFU/g | — |
| TYMC | max. 300 | CFU/g | — |
Regulatory & Compliance
- Certifications & Compliance
Packaging & Availability
- Packaging Type
- Packaging Information
Packed in 25 kg net paper kraft bags with a polyethylene liner inside.
Storage & Handling
- Safety and Storage
Kept in original package unopened, under cool and dry conditions, the product will show no significant difference in the properties within the next 4 years from manufacturing date. No speci fic handling conditions are required. Agar -agar is considered as non hazardous according to OSHA definition or ECHA.