| Alginates | Cargill Food Ingredients | Alginates are salts of alginic acid, which are extracted from brown seaweed and used as partially nonthermoreversible gelling and thickening agents. It is a polysaccharide that occurs naturally in brown algae as a skeletal component of their cell walls. A...view more Alginates are salts of alginic acid, which are extracted from brown seaweed and used as partially nonthermoreversible gelling and thickening agents. It is a polysaccharide that occurs naturally in brown algae as a skeletal component of their cell walls. Alginate is used in food because it is a powerful thickening agent, stabilizing, and gel-forming agent. view less |
