Sentence examples for carrageenan from inspiring English sources
noun
A food additive made from a purified extract of red seaweed, commonly used as a thickening agent.
Carraguard is the proprietary name of a substance made from carrageenan, a carbohydrate gel derived from seaweeds that is widely used as a stabiliser in the food industry.
First, carrageenan is already known to America's Food and Drug Administration.
A secondary industry is the harvesting of Irish moss (a seaweed) for its carrageenan, an extract with several commercial uses.
Gelling agents such as carrageenan, sodium alginate, and agar were certainly not entirely new in the food industry.
Marine algae is processed there for use in fertilizers, stock feed, agar, and carrageenan.
Algae of commercial value include the kelp genus Laminaria, a source of iodine, potassium, and algin; Irish moss (Chondrus crispus), from which carrageenan is derived; and such edible varieties as dulse (Rhodymenia palmata) and laver (Porphyra).
One wall at McCrady's bears a floor-to-ceiling rack about equally divided between traditional spices and substances like Ultratex, Methocel, sodium alginate, and Genugel CHP-2 kappa-carrageenan.
Previous attempts to make vaginal microbicide gels that block the passage of HIV have involved long-chain molecules called carrageenans, thickening agents found in seaweed.
These sugars — known as alginates, carrageenans, and agars — thicken, bind, and emulsify toothpaste, shampoo, skin cream, and countless industrial foods, including most ice cream.
At McCrady's, in a building built in 1788, where George Washington is said to have dined, he installed immersion circulators and stored pounds of gellan gum, carrageenans and methylcellulose.
These sugars known as alginates, carrageenans, and agars thicken, bind, and emulsify toothpaste, shampoo, skin cream, and countless industrial foods, including most ice cream.
