English name: Xanthan gum

CAS number: 11138-66-2

Appearance: Xanthan gum is a light yellow to white flowable powder with a slight odor.

Physical properties: Xanthan gum is easily soluble in cold and hot water, neutral in solution, resistant to freezing and thawing, and insoluble in ethanol. Disperse and emulsify in water to form a stable hydrophilic viscous colloid. Its aqueous solution has high viscosity and good stability under conditions such as heat, acidity, alkalinity, and salt.

Chemical structure: Xanthan gum is a monospore polysaccharide produced by fermentation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Its molecular structure is complex, including a glucose main chain connected by β -1,4-glycosidic bonds and components such as mannose and glucuronic acid on the side chain. There may also be groups such as pyruvic acid on the side chain.

Uses

Due to its unique rheological properties and stability, xanthan gum has a wide range of applications in multiple fields:

1. Food industry: As a thickener, suspending agent, emulsifier, and stabilizer, it is widely used in fruit juice beverages, ice cream, frozen desserts, baked goods, gels, soft drinks, salad dressings, instant noodles, sausages, canned meat, cheese and other foods. It can improve the taste, texture, and stability of food, such as making ice cream more porous, ice free, and making jelly easier to form.
2. Medicine: Xanthan gum is used as a setting agent, suspension agent, and moisturizing agent, with thickening, adhesion, and lubrication effects.
3. Cosmetics: Xanthan gum is used as a thickener and stabilizer to improve the texture and stability of products. At the same time, due to its antioxidant and moisturizing properties, it is also used in high-end cosmetics.
4. Petroleum industry: Xanthan gum is used as a stabilizer for drilling mud. Due to its strong pseudoplasticity, it can maintain the viscosity of drilling fluid at low concentrations and control its rheological properties, thereby improving drilling efficiency.
5. Agriculture: Xanthan gum can be used as a suspension agent for pesticides to improve their stability and effectiveness.
6. In the field of feed, xanthan gum is used as a binder for fish and shrimp seedling feed.
7. Other applications: Xanthan gum can also be used in daily chemical, textile printing and dyeing, paper industry and other fields as a thickener, stabilizer and emulsifier.

Fufeng Group Limited is an internationalized bio-fermentation products manufacturer that is listed as a public company on the Main Board of HKEx. It is mainly specialized in all kinds of amino acids and its derivative products, and biological colloid R&D, producing, and management, and by now has become the largest MSG and Xanhtan Gum manufacturer in the world.

Currently, Fufeng Group is composed of the following enterprises: Shandong Fufeng Fermentation Co., Ltd., Baoji FufengBiotechnologies Co., Ltd., Neimenggu Fufeng Biotechnologies Co., Ltd., Hulunbeier North East Fufeng Biotechnologies Co., Ltd., Xinjiang Fufeng Biotechnologies Co., Ltd., Qiqihar Longjiang Fufeng Biotechnologies Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Shenhua Phamaceutical Co., Ltd., Fufeng R&D center and Fufeng Import & Export Co., Ltd, etc and our industry cover Shandong, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Jiangsu, Xinjiang, etc. It has a total of over 50 main products varying in fermentation products such as MSG, Xanthan Gum, Crystallized Glucose, Fructose, Bio-fermentation Fertilizer, Corn Oil, Chicken Bouillon, Compound Seasoning, Glutamic Acid, Threonine, L-Valene, Isoleucine and healthcare products such as Cordycepin Capsule, Aweto Anima Powder, etc. Fufeng Group has successfully sold its leading products MSG and Xanthan Gum in all areas across China and to over 90 foreign countries in the world.

Enterprise Qualification Certification

The group has passed ISO9001 quality management system, ISO22000 food safety management system, ISO14001 environmental management system, OHSAS18001 occupational health and safety management system, GMP, Kosher, Halal, BRC, IP certification.For many years in a row, it ranked first in the comprehensive strength of China's fermentation industry, and was selected into the top 500 private enterprises in China. It has won the honorary titles of national high-tech enterprise, national excellent leading food enterprise, etc. "fufeng" trademark is a well-known trademark in China.