About Guar Gum

From Guar plant‘s (Cyamopsis tetragonolobus) endosperm Guar Gum is derivative. Guar is a legume (a plant of pea family) crop grows best in sandy soils and needs moderate, flashing rainfall with lots of sunshine. Guar gum is found in the seeds of two annual leguminous plants (Cyamopsis tetragonolobus and psoralioides).

Guar gum is useful as a thickening agent for water and as a reagent for adsorption and hydrogen bonding with mineral and cellulosic surfaces. It is an edible carbohydrate polymer.

It is non-ionic, free flowing, low pale white colored, coarse to fine grounded powder and is water-soluble hydrocolloids.

Guar gum is used as a thickener and emulsifier in commercial food processing. It has almost 8 times the thickening power as corn starch, and is used in dressings, sauces, milk products, and baking mixes. It is also used in paper manufacturing, textiles, printing, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

Guar Extracts

Guar Split/Gum 28% (+/- 1% variance) extracts from Guar seed.
The ratio of Churi and Korma 67% depending upon the quality of the seed.

*Split/Gum is further refined to Guar Powder
*Churi and Korma are used for Cattle Feed

Properties

The guar gum is a polysaccharide which in water gives hexose sugar, mannose and galactose. These hexose sugars are soluble both in cold and hot water but it is insoluble in most of the organic solvents. In water it gives high viscosity even used small quantity. Strong acids cause hydrolysis and loss of viscosity; alkalies in strong concentration also tend to reduce the viscosity. Adding borax solution will form a gelatinous mass. Guar gum is compatible with starch, alginate, agar etc.

*It is easily soluble in both hot and cold water.
*Properties of film forming.
*Remains stable in solution over wide range of pH values from 5-7.
*Good thickening agent.
*High viscosity.
*Resistance to oils, greases and solvent.
*Capacity of Water binding.
*Functioning at low temperatures.
*Compatible with many other hydrocolloids used in food formulations.
*Versatility due to number of free hydroxy groups to make derivatives for specific applications.

About Guar Gum Splits:

Guar Gum Refined Split is refined endosperm derived from guar seed or cluster bean (cyamoperm tetragonoloba). It is a non-ionic polysaccharide galacomannan. Guar Gum Refined Split (Endosperm) is mechanically separated from guar seed which yields 28-30% of Refined Split. Guar beans are harvested and dried following the growing season. The beans are shelled from the pods, the germ and hull removed. The resulting splits are wet-milled into powder; the powder is graded by granulation and quality. Products are re-blended according to specification, bagged and marked. Guar Gum Split with its versatile inherent properties is used all over the globe with different utilities in many industries like Petroleum (Oil drilling), textile, printing, food pharma, cosmetic, toiletries paper, tanneries, mining, explosives, pet food etc. These industries use Guar Gum in powder form either directly plain Guar Gum Powder or in derived form. We provide quality Guar Gum Splits to quality manufacturer of Guar Gum Powder, which is their pre-requirement for manufacturing high quality Guar Gum Powder.

Specifications of Guar Splits:

Packaging

Special attention is paid in packing the bulk product by filling in suitable bag-sizes with standard measures to ensure product quality and safety during transit and storage.

Flexible packaging solutions from 800, 900 and 1000 kilo Jumbo HDPE circular woven bags and 25 kilo /50 kilo HDPE bags are also available in multi walled paper bags.

Regulatory Information

*Cassia gum is approved for use in Europe by the Commission Directive (EEC No. E 499) and is
listed in the Annex of the Council Directive (70/524/EEC) as a stabilizer (thickening and gelling
agent) in the manufacture of canned pet foods (for cats and dogs).

*It is also approved for use in Japan and is listed as a food additive in The Ministry of Health
and Welfare Announcement No. 160 (10 August 1995).

*A panel of experts in the areas of toxicology, pharmacology and food science was assembled
to review the safety of cassia gum for use as a thickening agent in human and pet foods in the
United States.

*The available data on cassia gum and structurally related gums demonstrate a lack of toxic
effects in animals. This review is the basis for the consideration of cassia gum as generally
recognized as safe (GRAS) under conditions of its intended use as a thickening agent in human
and pet foods.

Abbreviations: FFDCA, Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act; GRAS, generally recognized as safe; NTP, National Toxicology Program; OECD, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development; PADI, possible average daily intake