Xanthan gum: Production, recovery, properties and application
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https://doi.org/10.4013/4964Abstract
The bacteria belonging to the gender Xanthomonas can produce xanthan gum, a polysaccharide of enormous interest for food, pharmaceutical and petroleum industries. The gum presents capacity to form viscous solutions and gels hydrosoluble that supplies its unique reological properties. Actually, all xanthan gum consumed in Brazil, becomes from imports, however Brazil has a great potential for production of this polymeric in industrial scale, since we have basic raw material for its production: sugar, yeast extract and alcohol of sugar-alcohol section. The objective of this review is to update the knowledge about production, recovery, properties and application of the xanthan gum.
Key words: xanthan gum, production, application.Downloads
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