Sodium alginate

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Algin - Sodium Alginate
Extracted from seaweed, Algin is a " spheroidization " agent. sodium alginate powder creates fruit caviar, ravioli, marbles and various spheres when deposited into a Calcium Chloride water bath.
This product comes as an off-white powder and it is manufactured from brown algae. It is made in China and it has no additives.
Sodium alginate is the sodium form of alginate. Alginate is a linear, anionic polysaccharide consisting of two form of 1, *-linked hexuronic acid residues, β-d-mannuronopyranosyl (M) and α-l- guluronopyranosyl (G) residues. It can be arranged in the form of blocks of repeating M residues (MM blocks), blocks of repeating G residues (GG blocks), and blocks of mixed M and G residues (MG blocks). Commercially available alginate currently originates from algae. Alginate has wide applications. For example, one of its most important role is being used as wound dressing materials for the treatment of acute or chronic wounds. The use of alginate crosslinking to make hydrogels for cell encapsulation is also quite valuable. The emergence of various kinds of its derivatives recently has further extended its application.