Alginates

Food Stabilisers, Thickeners and Gelling Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 50-72

  Helgerud, Trond ^a   Gåserød, Olav ^a   Fjæreide, Therese ^a   Andersen, Peder O ^a   Larsen, Christian Klein ^a  

^a FMC BioPolymer/NovaMatrix   (Norway)

Author keywords

Alginate biosynthesis; Alginate use in food applications; Alginates; Alginic acid extracted from brown seaweed, long and slow process; Block structure of alginates and forming gels; Chemical composition alginates, natural, high molecular weight polymers; Gel formation techniques; Industrially utilised brown seaweeds; Sodium alginate hydrates in cold or hot water to giving viscous solutions; Thickening stabilising with PGA

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957847402     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314724.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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