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B&V - The Agar Company SPREADAGAR

B&V - The Agar Company Spreadagar is a complete range of tailored food grade agar agar powders specially developed to be used in spreadable jams, marmalades, glazing and piping gel.

Ingredient Name: Agar

Functions: Texturizing Agent

Labeling Claims: Natural, Naturally Derived

Physical Form: Powder, Solid

Features: Good Transparency, Improved Water Binding, Low Viscosity, Soft Texture, Solubilizing

End Uses: Cheese, Dairy Drinks, Dessert Toppings, Glazings, Icing, Jams, Marmalades

Enhanced TDS

Enhanced TDS

Knowde-enriched technical product data sheet

Identification & Functionality

Ingredient Name
Ingredient Origin
Food Ingredients Functions
Ingredients
Agar
Food Additive Number
E 406, INS 406
Technologies

Features & Benefits

Product Highlights

Spreadagar provides a high water binding capacity and excellent sugar synergy to ensure limited cracking due to dehydration during storage.

Applications & Uses

Applications

 

Glazing, piping gel, icing, fondant, spreadable cheese, ice cream toppings, drinkable dairy

Properties

Physical Form

Technical Details & Test Data

Properties

Low to ultra low gel strength (50-300 gr/cm2)
Low viscosity and good transparency
Excellent solubility for fast heating system
High synergy with sugars and other hydrocolloids
Low synaeresis and outstanding water binding capacity
High resistence at low pH
Provides a soft texture appropriate for spreadable products
Fat/protein replacing texture in dietetic/light products