food additive sodium alginate

Sodium Alginate is the sodium salt of alginic acid derived from seaweed. It is a high viscosity purified

product used as food additives, 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. It is widely used in food industry.