Thickeners

Thickener is a kind of food additive, mainly used to improve and increase the viscosity of food, maintain the color, aroma, taste and stability of liquid food and jelly food, improve the physical properties of food, and make food lubrication A palatable feeling. Thickeners can increase the viscosity of foods or form gels, thereby changing the physical properties of foods, giving foods a sticky, suitable taste, and also have the effect of emulsifying, stabilizing or making them suspended. The currently approved thickeners used in China There are 39 kinds of thickeners. Thickeners are all hydrophilic polymer compounds, also called hydrosols. According to its source, it can be divided into two categories: natural and chemical synthesis (including semi-synthetic).

Thickener is a kind of rheological additive, which can not only thicken coatings and prevent sagging during construction, but also give coatings excellent mechanical properties and storage stability. It is a very important class of additives for water-based coatings with low viscosity.

There are water-based and oily points. Especially the application of water phase thickener is more common. Thickener is essentially a rheological additive. After the thickener is added, the rheology can be adjusted to thicken the adhesive and sealant, prevent filler precipitation, give good physical and mechanical stability, and control the flow of the construction process. Denaturation (no sagging, dripping, or flying liquid during sizing) can also reduce costs.

It is especially important for the manufacture, storage and use of adhesives and sealants. It can improve and adjust the viscosity to obtain stability, anti-settling, anti-seepage, anti-sagging, and thixotropic properties.

Food-grade thickener-vegetarian meat powder is a water-phase thickener, and it is also an oil-phase thickener, that is to say, it can absorb a lot of water when it meets water, and it can form a gel when it absorbs 30 times of water. When it absorbs 50-100 times of water, it can become a paste. When it absorbs 100-200 times of water, it can make the water body and the system containing protein and oil form a rich feeling and a strong texture. Vegetarian meat powder is extracted from marine algae and terrestrial plant Konjac. The algae will absorb carbon dioxide in the sea through photosynthesis during growth, which is good for the environment. Adding vegetarian meat powder to food is also a kind of earth-loving and green environmental protection. Way of survival.