Name  :     Alginate
Shape :     White crystalline powder

In the food industry, it can be used as a variety of food additives, including beverage clarifying agent, jam thickening agent, bread and noodles quality optimization agent;The calcium alginate fibers can be used as surgical swabs or absorbent dressings.Alginate is also widely used as a solid phase support carrier for immobilized cells in the laboratory and fermentation industry.

                     
                    Also known as alginate gum, alginate or alginate.It's a salt of alginate.A long chain polymer consisting of (1→4) -β-cross-linked D-mannouronic acid and (1→4) -α-cross-linked cologuronic acid with a relative molecular weight of about 10^6.It mainly exists in the cell wall and intercellular mucilage of brown algae, and also exists in some mucile-producing Pseudomonas and nitrogen-fixers.