Products in Emulsifiers: Carrageenan

Cargill Carageenan for Confectionary - Satiagel is a food additive employed as a texturant and functions as a gelling agent, particularly suitable for dairy applications. This product comprises Carrageenan E407 and Dextrose, presenting itself in the form of a creamy-white to light-brown powder with a neutral odor and taste.

Cargill Carageenan for Meat & Meat Alternatives - Aubygel & Satiagel is a blend that serves as a texturant, primarily functioning as a gelling agent to enhance the texture and overall appearance of cooked meat and meat alternative products. When incorporated during injection, typically at a concentration ranging between 0.20 and 0.50% of the final product, it aids in reducing cook-off juices, improving binding, and enhancing slicing parameters, resulting in a smoother-tasting product. This product is composed of carrageenan E407, dextrose, and sodium chloride.

Cargill Carageenan for Dairy & Dairy Alternatives - Satiagel & Satiagum is a food additive utilized as a texturant. It acts as a proficient gelling agent, particularly designed to stabilize sterilized dairy products like UHT (ultra-high temperature) liquid creams. This product consists of Carrageenans E 407 and Dextrose, and it is characterized by its creamy-white to light-brown powder appearance, coupled with a neutral odor and taste.

Injection/Tumbling – Lightest color Natural Grade kappa carrageenan. Will not darken poultry products. Ideal for masking gel pockets. Also available in a suspension-stable version: MBF-202i

A cost-effective carrageenan system designed specifically for UHT processed fluid flavored beverages. Provides excellent spread, shear stability and resistance to overstabilization/gellation.

Produces an injection brine with improved suspension of solid ingredients including starches and proteins. Improved uniformity in the finished product and reduced losses from waste are achieved.

GPI 520 is a food grade Carrageenan used as a food additive in further processed meat and poultry products emulsion-type products.

Connemara Organic Seaweed Company Sun Bleached Carrageen Moss / Irish Sea Moss is hand harvested from the pristine Atlantic waters off the Connemara coast. It is dark red-brown in color but sunlight bleaches it to a white yellow color as it dries. ‘Carrageen’ is derived from the Irish word for a little rock, suiting this seaweed which grows in small tufts on the many rocks dotting the lower shore.

CS-9314 is a cold-swelling lambda carrageenan designed for rapid thickening in powder mixes for cold milk or water reconstitution. It provides viscosity, mouth feel and suspension of solids in the reconstituted drinks. This products typical use level is ~0.1-0.15% of the reconstituted drink weight.

Hansacoll® Carrageenan Semi-Refinded is a natural gelatin made from seaweed that appears as a white-yellow colored powder with a neutral odor and taste. This product is used for the thickening and stabilizing of food. Hansacoll® Carrageen-Refine E407a can be found in cake icing, desserts, delicatessen and meat products.

An economical lambda-like carrageenan for cold milk and water reconstituted beverage mixes. Provides suspension and body.

Cost-effective, concentrated kappa/lambda type carrageenan designed primarily for use in soft serve and low-fat dairy applications.

Connemara Organic Seaweed Company Non Bleached Carrageen Moss / Irish Sea Moss is also known, is hand harvested from the pristine Atlantic waters off the Connemara coast. It is dark red-brown in color but sunlight bleaches it to a white yellow color as it dries. ‘Carrageen’ is derived from the Irish word for a little rock, suiting this seaweed which grows in small tufts on the many rocks dotting the lower shore.

A high viscosity water thickening carrageenan providing excellent body at low temperatures. Also suitable for cold milk systems.

Hansacoll® Carrageen-refine is a natural gelatin made from seaweed that appears as a white-yellow powder with a neutral odor and taste. This product is used as a suspender and emulsifier in meat products, as a stabilizer in ham injection and for fat replacement in convenience foods.

System composed of clear-gelling carrageenans with clarified locust bean gum to provide gelatin like water dessert gels which do not require refrigeration. Typical use level is ~0.7 – 0.9% of the gel weight. (Powder Mix / Ready to Eat).

Carrageenan - Semi Refined (Kappa, Iota) is a polysaccharide extracted from red seaweed. Categorized as E407a, it is used as an emulsifier in sausages, hams, canned meat, ice cream, milk gels, flavored and chocolate milk drinks, dessert gels and jellies, whipped toppings and creams, and syrups.

Iota carrageenan typically used in imitation chocolate milk (whey/vegetable oil-based) with akappa carrageenan such as CM-9401. Also used in certain retorted nutritional beverages such as soy-based infant formulas. Cold swelling but low or non-gelling in water. (See Further Processed Meat & Poultry Section).

Natural Grade regular mesh kappa carrageenan, ideal for frozen desserts, HTST chocolate milk, cottage cheese dressing and eggnog.

A pure, fine mesh injectable Natural-Grade kappa carrageenan with no added salts. Ideal for low-sodium products or clean-label needs. Labeled simply “Carrageenan”. Use level is typically 10-20% lower than most other carrageenans in meat since it contains no standardizing agents.

Economical carrageenan blend designed for fluid dairy and HTST chocolate milk products. Most suitable in applications where the use level can be closely matched to dairy plant conditions and those conditions are expected to remain consistent.

Brine suspension-stable version of MBF-36. Provides excellent suspension of particulates in the brine. It may be combined with a suitable auxiliary binder such as starch.

Carrageenan - Refined (Kappa, Iota, Lambda) is a polysaccharide extracted from red seaweed. Categorized as E407, it is used as an emulsifier in sausages, hams, canned meat, ice cream, milk gels, flavored and chocolate milk drinks, dessert gels and jellies, whipped toppings and creams, and syrups.

An economical blend of carrageenan types (predominately kappa) which combines maximum performance and economy for a variety of stabilizer applications such as HTST chocolate milk, frozen desserts and culture products (cottage cheese dressing and sour cream). Provides suspension, viscosity and emulsion stability with good resistance to shear. A fine-mesh product designed for processes where nested filter screens are used in the filling operation. Typical use level is ~0.03 in chocolate milk and ~0.02 in hard pack (>10% butter fat) ice cream.

An economical refined kappa carrageenan which forms clear gels in water. Suitable for use in cheese products and meat applications where high gel strength and clarity are important.

424-388 HydroLux 388 Carrageenan is a polysaccharide extracted from red seaweed. Classified as E407, the product is used as a thickener, stabilizer, gelling agent, and an emulsifier in hams and sausages.

A carrageenan blend designed for HTST processed fruit topping systems where flow and cling are required along with clarity and good flavor release.

A kappa/lambda blend designed to stabilize HTST, low-fat, low-solids mixes (shakes, soft serve). Prevents separation of refrigerated liquid mix prior to being frozen. Typical use in soft serve mix is ~0.025 – ~0.03%.