Wholesale Price Bulk Powder Calcium Alginate

Calcium alginate is a water-insoluble, gelatinous, cream coloured substance that can be created through the addition
of aqueous calcium chloride to aqueous sodium alginate. Adding artificial flavours and colours creates a more tasty
edible slime. Calcium alginate is also used for entrapment of enzymes and forming artificial seeds in plant tissue
culture."Alginate" is the term usually used for the salts of alginic acid, but it can also refer to all the derivatives of
alginic acid and alginic acid itself;in some publications the term "algin" is used instead of alginate. Alginate is
present in the cell walls of brown algae as the calcium, magnesium and sodium salts of alginic acid.

1. As a gel agent, it can form a thermal irreversible gel, and can be applied to various kinds of bionic foods, meat products,
and embedding of drugs in pharmaceuticals.
2. The gel formed form calcium alginate has an excellent capability of water retaining, that makes it a better choice in jelly
products.
3. Calcium alginate can be used in pharmaceutical to produce the hemostatic gauze. This kind of gauze has the
functionalities of hemostasis, as well as antibacterial and promoting the wound healing.
4. As a calcium agent, calcium alginate can used in food additives.
5. Calcium alginate can also be widely used in formulatin of food.
6. For industrial grade, calcium alginate can be used for welding rod coating. It is featured with fine particle size and low
salt, that makes it one of the indispensable ingredients for high-end electrodes.