SODIUM ALGINATE

1. In food industry
a: Stabilizer
As a stabilizer of ice cream replacing starch and carrageenan, Sodium Alginate can avoid of ice crystal and make the product tasty. It also applies to the mixed drinks, such as ice looly, iced fruit juice and iced milk, etc. When adding some into dairy products like refined cheese, canned cream and dry cheese, the final product will not stick to the package. Moreover, Sodium Alginate can keep the product fine and avoid of splitting open if it is used as a cover of milky food.
b: Thickener and emulsion
Sodium Alginate can raise the product's stabilization and decrease the liquid out when it is used in sala (a cold dish)flavoring, pudding(a sweet pastry) jam, tomato ketchup and the canned products.
c: Hydration
Sodium Alginate will make noodle, vermicelli or rice noodle have a strong cohesiveness, pulling, bending and reduce breaking, special suitable in the less gluten content of wheat flour, SODIUM Alginate also can equal the product's internal form and hold water so that it can be kept for a long time. Adding some into iced sweet products, Sodium Alginate will come into being a protecting cover against heated quickly, and it can quicken the flavor sending forth, raise melting point of the products.
D: Gelling property
Sodium Alginate suits to make kinds of gel product, which can be kept the fine state, nonleakage and contraction. So it also fits iced products and man-made products. Using this specific property, it can be used as a cover for fruit, meat and seaweed products away from air and keep it stored longer. In addition, it also can be used as the sugar coating of bread, the cover of filling and cake and the auto-coagulant of canned food, which will not change in high/low temperature and acid conditions. It also can replace carrageenan to make a crystal soft sugar, elastic, unsticky, transparent.

SPECIFICATION:
SODIUM ALGINATE QUALITY STANDARD

Item spec staudard INDUSTRIAL GRADE:
SC/T 3401-1985 STANDARD OF FOOD ADDITIVE GB1976-80, FCCIV
GRAIN SIZE 30 MESH 100% PASS OF AS PER CONTRACT STIPULATED AS PER CONTRACT STIPULATED
VISCOSITY (mPa.s) ASPER CONTRACT STIPULATED 150 or to the contract req.
MOISTURE % 15
15

Ph 6.0-7.5 6.0-8.0
Ca CONTENT % 0.3
/
ASH CONTENT % 20.0-24.0 30-37(SULPHATE ASH)
INSOLUBLE MATTER IN WATER % 0.6
3.0

TRANSPARENCY cm 3
COMPLY TO STIPULATED
HEAVY METAL % / 0.004

ARSENATE % / 0.0002

LEAD % / 0.0004