tara gum

Tara gum has been deemed safe for human consumption as a food additive.

Tara gum is used as a thickening agent and stabilizer in a number of food applications.

An evaluation of the reproductive and developmental effects of tara gum in rats.

Evaluation of the safety of tara gum as a food ingredient: A review of the literature.

There are substitutes available to the complaining industries, including xanthum and tara gums, Seisun says, but switching ingredients poses problems.

Furthermore, tara gum shows an intermediate acid stability between locust bean gum and guar gum.

Tara gum is a white or beige, nearly odorless powder that is produced by separating and grinding the endosperm of C. spinosa seeds.

Tara gum is seeing growing acceptability as a food ingredient but is still used to a much lesser extent than guar or LBG.

A solution of tara gum is less viscous than a guar gum solution of the same concentration, but more viscous than a solution of locust bean gum.

Ingredients: Milk, sugar, corn syrup, cream, whey, mono and diglycerides, carob bean gum, guar gum, carrageenan, natural flavor, annatto (for color), vitamin A palmitate, Tara gum.

The Leather business focuses on products for leather tanning and comprises vegetable extracts, synthetic tannins and fatliquors, while the Food Ingredients business supplies pectin, Tara gum for food and beverage industry.