Cassia Tora Gum Powder - Hot Water Soluble Polysaccharide Gelling Agent | Ideal For Food And Pet Food Applications, Forms Elastic Gels With Xanthan And Carrageenan

Cassia gum is manufactured from the endosperm of Senna obtusifolia or Cassia obtusifolia or Cassia Tora or Cassia Occidentalis). It is mainly used as a thickener and gelling agent in foods and pet foods. Cassia grows mainly in subtropical regions and is grows mostly wild and occasionally cultivated.

Cassia Gum is comprised of at least 75% polysaccharide consisting primarily of a linear backbone chain of mannose with side galactose units The ratio of Mannose : Galactose is about 5: 1.

Cassia gum, like LBG can form gels with other colloids like Carrageenan and Xanthan and is therefore used in the manufacture of gels in the food and pet food applications in combination of other colloids.

a cCassia gum is hot water soluble and requires heating to fully solubilise and reach full viscosity in aqueous solutions.
a cCassia Gum is comprised of at least 75 % polysaccharide consisting primarily of a linear chain of 1,4-I -D-mannopyranose units with 1,6 linked I -D-alactopyranose units.
a cThe ratio of mannose to galactose is about 5:1.
a cCassia gum forms firm thermoplastic gels with carrageenan.
a cCassia gum and xanthan gum, on their own, do not have the ability to form gels. But cassia gum combined with xanthan gum, aqueous dispersions of cassia gum form cohesive, elastic gels.
a cCassia is known as one of the best gelling agent, thickening additives, emulsifying additives and stabilizing additives.