Product Details

Gum Arabic Powder

Gum arabic , also known as acacia gum, chaar gund, or meska, is a natural gum made of hardened sap taken from two species of the acacia tree; Acacia senegal and Acacia seyal.

Gum arabic, a complex mixture of polysaccharides and glycoproteins, is used primarily in the food industry as a stabilizer. It is edible and has E number E414.

Components	Guaranteed Analysis
Appearance	Off-white to Yellowish Granular or Powder
Odor	Own inherent smell, no odor
Viscosity ( Brookfield RVT, 25%, 25°C, Spindle #2, 20rpm, mPa.s)	60-100
pH	3.5- 6.5
Moisture(105°C, 5h)	15% Max
Solubility	Soluble in water, insoluble in ethanol
Nitrogen	0.24%- 0.41%
Ash	4% Max
Insolubles in Acid	0.5% Max
Starch	Negative
Dannin	Negative
Arsenic (As)	3ppm Max
Lead (Pb)	10ppm Max
Heavy Metals	40ppm Max
E.Coli	Negative
Salmonella/ 10g	Negative
Total Plate Count	1000 cfu/ g Max

Food & Beverage Industry:

It is mainly used as thickener, stabilizer, emulsifier, coating agent glaze.

This product is widely used in beverage production, such as the production of soft drinks, juice concentrate flavor and essential oils which can be stabilized.

It is also used in candy making, like traditional hard (liquor) chicle, soft candy, cotton candy. It could also be used as foam stabilizer.

Medicine Industry:

Gum arabic is claimed to have therapeutic usefulness in the treatment of many diseases and is conventionally used in treatment of skin wounds such as leprosy, burns, and cuts, or digestive issues like gonorrhea, dysentery, and coughs.

GA is still applied in some of these diseases, especially the coughs.