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Identification & Functionality
- Ingredient Name
- Food Ingredients Functions
- Ingredients
- Gum Ghatti
- Food Additive Number
- E 419, INS 419
- Technologies
Features & Benefits
- Product Highlight
Harvest and refinement
Anogeissus Latifolia grow GMO and pesticide-free in the wild and are used by humans in a variety of ways. The harvest of gum ghatti is somewhat different than with other gums: the trees separate ghatti at high temperatures and from naturally occurring wounds on the tree. The “tapping”, the cutting of the trees by the human hand, can be dispensed with during the Ghatti harvest.
The first steps in refining the raw material include cleaning and sorting the rubber. In an additional step, Gummi Ghatti can be processed into powder. This powder offers a higher degree of purity and easier integration into the production process of the industrial end user.
Sensory and phytochemical composition
The raw material Gum Ghatti consists of small whitish to dark red, odorless resin lumps. As a natural polysaccharide, Ghatti has a complex sugar structure, the main components of which are L-arabinose, D-galactose, D-gluconic acid and D-mannose. Gum Ghatti has a very high proportion of water-soluble fiber.
Applications & Uses
- Markets
- Applications
- Food & Nutrition Applications
- Applications
Traditional and industrial applications
Gum Ghatti is traditionally used in India for therapeutic purposes and as a food. Due to the very high proportion of water-soluble fiber, it is taken, for example, for stomach problems. Gum Ghatti is used as a source of water-soluble fiber in the food industry. Ghatti is also used to stabilize emulsions and suspensions in beverages, confectionery and flavors. Other uses of gum Ghatti are in the manufacture of waxes, paints and inks, in the paper and cosmetics industries. Willy Benecke is your supplier for gummy ghatti as raw material or as ready-to-use powder.
We offer rubber ghatti for the following industrial fields of application:
- As an emulsifier in the food industry
- As a stabilizer in the food industry
Properties
Regulatory & Compliance
- Certifications & Compliance
- Certifications
In the European Union, Gummi Ghatti is not approved as a food additive and therefore does not have a European Food Safety E number. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lists Gummi Ghatti as an approved food additive for emulsions under code 184.1333. In many other countries outside the European Union, the raw material is also approved for use in food.