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Gum
Arabic is an excellent flavour carrier and is used
by formulators for imparting a clean, longlasting
fresh taste. Gum Arabic may be used to emulsify the
flavor oils or fats in confections.
The film-forming ability of Gum Arabic makes it a
useful ingredient for confectionery coatings including
the pancoating of fruits and nuts. In addition, specialty
anticariogenic (anti-tooth decay) candies have contained
Gum Arabic, which is resistant to degradation by the
micro-organisms in the human mouth responsible for
such effects.
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Wherever
film - forming and emulsifying properties - without
affecting product taste or rheology are needed, Gum
Arabic is an ingredient that must be considered .
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| BEVERAGES
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As
the emulsifying agent of choice,Gum Arabic is widely
used in a broad range of beverage. The completeness
and stability of the emulsions produced even in normally
difficult low acid environments have kept Gum Arabic
as an essential ingredient for this usage.It is also
used as a component coluding agent in a wide range
of beverages.It can also be used as a clarifying agent
in the production alcoholic beverages, such as high
quality wines .
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Dry packaged products such as instant drinks, dessert
mixes, soup bases and "off-the shelf" spraydried flavours
may be formulated using Gum Arabic.
Flavour protection, desirable flavour release, long
shelf life , and high dispersibility are the advantages
offered by Gum Arabic .
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Gum
Arabic is used both as a carrier in capsules and as
a tableting excipient. One of its oldest and bestknown
uses has been in cough syrups.
Gum Arabic may be used in cosmetic products such as
face masks, haircreams and fixatives, protective creams
and lotions.
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The ability of Gum Arabic to form highly uniform films,
and to "Carry" numerous ingredients through co-spraydrying,
has made it a recognized option in sprayed glazes
, also high technology ceramics , and as a flocculating
agent in ore refining of certain minerals.
It also has uses in paper coating, textile sizing
and finishes, metal corrosion inhibitors, office glues,
emulsion prints and pesticides. A major use is in
lithographic inks , where its ability to from excellent
films makes it particularly suitable for the treatment
of photosensitive plates .
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In
all Ayurvedic granthas Gum is very important ingredient.
It is recomended to be used during and after pregnancy
, mixed with Ghee , Dry fruit and Crude drugs .
The Important traditional use of Gum Arabic is in
winter seasons.
It is mixed with dry fruit and in some places as a
supari also .
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