Carrageenan

As a professional China carrageenan supplier, Jiangsu Zipin has been supplying carrageenan for many years. Carrageenan is a functional food additive widely used in many industries. For its gelling, thickening, and stabilizing properties, Carrageenan is mainly used as thickener and stabilizer in jelly, dairy and meat products.

Jiangsu Zipin is a leading China Carrageenan manufacturers, suppliers and exporter. Carrageenan is a family of natural linear sulfated polysaccharides that are extracted from the natural strains of seaweed Eucheuma cottonii of the class Rgodophyceae (red  seaweeds). Carrageenan consists chiefly of the potassium salts of polysaccharide sulphate esters which, on hydrolysis, yield galactose and 3,6-anhydrogalactose. Sodium, Calcium and magnesium salts of the polysaccharide sulphate esters are present in less amount. Up to 15% algal cellulose is also present in the product.