Natural gum
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Natural gums are polysaccharides of natural origin, capable of causing a large viscosity increase in solution, even at small concentrations. In the food industry they are used as thickening agents, gelling agents and stabilisers.
Examples include:
- Chicle gum, an older base for chewing gum
- Glucomannan, derived from the Konjac plant
- Dammar gum
- Gellan gum (E418)
- Guar gum (E412)
- Gum arabic (E414)
- Karaya gum (E416)
- Locust bean gum (E410)
- Mastic gum, a chewing gum from ancient Greece
- Psyllium seed husks
- Spruce gum, a chewing gum of American Indians
- Tara gum (E417)
- Tragacanth (E413)
- Xanthan gum (E415, made biotechnologically, by bacterial fermentation)
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