Sodium Alginate

Kind: Thickeners Application: Textile Printing Auxiliary, Food Additive CAS No.: 9005-38-3 Loss on Drying: Not More Than 15% Specification: FCCV/ E401/ WHO/FAO Appearance: Powder Apperence: Cream White Powder Assay: 90.8 - 106% Trademark: TS Ingredients Origin: China Sodium Alginate Powder Description: Sodium Alginate is the sodium salt of a carboxymethyl ether of cellulose, which has been partially hydrolyzed by enzymatic treatment with food-grade Trichoderma reesei cellulase.  Sodium Alginate is the white crystal whose appearance and smell are similar to sugar. In the food industry, Sodium Alginate has the functions of stabilization, hydration, thickening and emulsification. In the pharmaceutical industry, it can be used as dental impression material, ointment, tablets and their preparation, and hemostat.Sodium Alginate also can be used in resin coating, rubber cream agent, Water Treatment and so on. As a leading Food Additives and food ingredients supplier in China, we can provide you varous kinds of sodium alginate with high quality .

Sodium Alginate Powder Application In Foods,Alginate has an excellent functionality as a thickening agent, gelling agent, emulsifier, stabilizer, texture-improver (for noodles), to improve the quality of food. Nowadays, based on unique and excellent properties alginate is applied to numerous kinds of food, such as ice cream, jelly, lactic drinks, dressings, instant noodle, beer, et cetera .Safety of alginate for food applications is certified by FAO/WHO, as one of the safest food additives.

In texile,Alginate is used for substrate of color paste when applying patterns to print fabrics, scarf, towel, etc. Use of alginate for printing of cotton, jute, rayon is mandatory. Alginate, a seaweed extract, is safer and easier to be decomposed compared with other substrate for textile printing, and gives easier waste water disposal.

 

ITEM	STANDARD	RESULTS
Appearance	Cream white powder	Conforms
Viscosity (mPa.s, 1% solution, 20°C)	As per need (100 - 1200)	Conforms
Assay (dry basis, %)	90.8 - 106	99.8
Loss on drying (105°C, 4h, %)	≤ 15	12.6
pH (1% solution)	6.0 - 7.5	6.97
Water insolubles (dry basis, %)	≤ 0.6	0.13
Total ash (%)	18 - 27	22.26
Copper (Cu)	≤ 10 mg/ kg	<10 mg/ kg
Zinc (Zn)	≤ 10 mg/ kg	<10 mg/ kg
Lead (Pb)	≤ 3 mg/ kg	< 3 mg/ kg
Arsenic (As)	≤ 2 mg/ kg	< 2 mg/ kg
Mercury (Hg)	≤ 1 mg/ kg	< 1 mg/ kg
Cadmium (Cd)	≤ 1 mg/ kg	< 1 mg/ kg
Total Heavy metals (as Pb)	≤ 10 mg/ kg	< 10 mg/ kg
Total plate count	≤ 5000 cfu/g	Conforms
Yeast & mould	≤ 500 cfu/g	Conforms
Salmonella/ 10g	Absent	Absent
E. Coli/ 5g	Absent	Absent

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