What is Guar Gum? What is the difference between Guar Gum and Xanthan Gum?

If you are a kitchen enthusiast, you will often come into contact with ingredients and ingredients to create dishes. So have you ever found out the important substances that contribute to the ingredients for your delicious dishes? Guar Gum and Xanthan Gum are two of many such substances. Let’s see what Guar Gum is and how it is different from Xanthan Gum.

What is Guar Gum?

Guar Gum or Guar gum is an ingredient in plant-based foods. Another name for Guar Gum is Guara or Galactomannan. The scientific name is Cyamopsis tetragonolobus.

Image of Guar Gum

In nature, candies are extracted from the endosperm of guar beans. Guar gum is a white powder. From guar seeds, people peel, grind the beans into powder and separate to produce gum. In biochemistry, people collect sugars galactose , mannose and form a type of carbohydrate polysaccharide. That’s Guar gum.

Guar Gum is derived from Guar . beans

The use of Guar Gum is used as a stabilizer, emulsifier and thickener. In addition, it is also used as an additive in food, cosmetics and industry because of its properties of stabilizing texture, thickening, creating viscosity, …

Guar gum is popular in many countries like Pakistan, USA, India and African countries.

What is Xanthan Gum?

Xanthan gum is also a food ingredient like Guar Gum. But chemically, Xanthan Gum is a polysaccharide. It is creamy white, colorless, and tasteless.

Xanthan Gum

This gum was first discovered by American chemist Allene Rosalind Jeanes. Xanthan Gum is secreted by microorganisms, so it is called Xanthomonas campestris. People ferment glucose, sucrose or lactose to form Xanthan Gum.

Xanthan Gum is composed of glucose, mannose, glucuronic acid. Its use is as rheological modifier, thickener and stabilizer in food, cosmetic, pharmaceutical industry, etc.

Xanthan Gum prevents clumping when powders

Xanthan Gum is used to thicken and increase food viscosity. Xanthan Gum combines with natural gums to form a gel to resist acidic ingredients. In addition, this type of gum also has water retention properties, so that no clumping occurs when kneading the dough.

Application of Guar Gum in life?

Application in the food industry

• Use to thicken cold foods such as ice cream, cakes,…
• Can create consistency, keep a certain amount of water in sauces, emulsions.
• Guar Gum is available in gluten-free recipes and gluten-free products.
• Found in condensed milk, yogurt, kefir, and liquid cheese products to help thicken them and maintain the texture of ice cream, sherbets.
• Guar gum forms a hot, light foaming gel.
• Acts as an emulsion stabilizer.
• Guar gum when in baked products increases dough yield, improves texture and shelf life.

Guar Gum increases pastry thickness

Application in textile and other industries

• Found in condensed milk, yogurt, kefir, and liquid cheese products to help thicken them and maintain the texture of ice cream, sherbets.
• Guar Gum as a waterproofing agent in the explosives industry.
• Used as thickener in toothpaste, conditioner, shampoo in cosmetic industry.
• In pharmaceutical technology, Guar Gum is a binder, a serum cholesterol-lowering additive, that has a positive effect on blood glucose.

Guar Gum creates gel in toothpaste

What is the difference between Guar Gum and Xanthan Gum?

The difference between Guar Gum and Xanthan Gum can be divided into the following characteristics:

Electronic number (EU Food Additive Code)

• With Guar Gum it’s E412
• With Xanthan Gum it’s E415

Chemical properties

• Guar Gum is biochemically a polysaccharide, containing the sugar galactose, mannose.
• Xanthan Gum is a polysaccharide with the chemical formula C35H49O29, consisting of glucose, mannose and glucuronic acid.

Guar Gum (left) and Xanthan Gum (right)

Source

• Guar Gum is derived from the endosperm of the guar seed
• Xanthan Gum is derived from the bacterium Xanthomonas campestris.

Production process

• Guar Gum is produced from guar seeds, so first from guar seeds, it will be peeled, pureed, screened, and then obtained a white powder called guar candy.
• Xanthan Gum is fermented from glucose, sucrose or lactose. The polysaccharide was then precipitated from the growth medium with isopropyl alcohol, dried and ground to a fine powder. It eventually combines in the new liquid medium to form gum.

Guar Gum can cause allergic reactions, with flushing, itching, and diarrhea. Xanthan Gum can also cause allergies because it contains ingredients from corn, wheat, milk, … So you should consider carefully before using foods containing these 2 types of gum.

Above is the basic understanding of Guar Gum and Xanthan Gum. Hope this article has given you useful information to increase your understanding.

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