of commodity: Sodium alginate (food grade)
(1) Food Industry
1. Pasta
Sodium alginate, as additive of fine dried noodles, can play a
similar role in increasing gluten in flour. It can improve the
cohesive force of noodle organization, reduce breakage rate and
wetted flour, improve the good quality rate, and also inhibit the
noodle acid. After application of sodium alginate, the noodles are
not sticky, not glued to the soup, able to endure long time
boiling, and refreshing.
With sodium alginate as additive, the bread is characterized by
high volume expansion, delicate organization, bright color,
flexibility, difficulty in dregs, good resistance to dryness, and
long storage.
Sodium alginate can also be used as cake emulsifier, as filling for
dessert instead of pectin and agar, and also for producing high-end
health foods with good efficacy, such as sodium alginate soft
sweets.
The pliable bean starch noodles often take sodium alginate as
additive in the production process.
2. Cold Food
Rather than the traditional agar, gelatin and starch, when sodium
alginate is used as ice cream stabilizer, it can get unique
properties and high efficiency, and the ice cream has small
residues, fine cream body and good taste. Under the same
conditions, the resistance to thawing is two folds increased.
3. Beverages
Sodium alginate and propylene glycol alginate has been used as beer
stabilizer for many years.
4. Simulated Food
Salted jellyfish, with sodium alginate as the main raw material,
has the crisp flavor of natural jellyfish, and is also very
convenient to eat, and cheap. It can be served cold (preferred) or
cooked. Artificial grape, fruit and cherry are also bionic food
with sodium alginate as raw material, and their shape, color and
flavor are exactly like the natural fruits.
5. Healthcare Food with Curative Effect
Sodium alginate can be used to prepare high-end food with efficacy
other than alginate soft sweets.
(2) Pharmaceutical Industry
PS-type gastrointestinal double-radiography barium sulfate
preparation, made by sodium alginate sulfate dispersant, is
characterized by low viscosity, fine particle size, good
pavementing, and stable performance.
PSS is a kind of polysaccharide sulphate with alginate as raw
material, with the effects of anticoagulation, antiatheroscloresis,
and blood clotting reduction.
In replace of rubber and plaster, sodium alginate is used for
dental impression, realizing cheap cost, simple operation, and more
accurate tooth profile. Sodium alginate can also be used to produce
a variety of hemostatic agents, including hemostatic sponge, gauze
to stop bleeding, hemostatic film, scald gauze, and spray
hemostatic agent.
