100% Food Grade (beware cheap industrial grade products not meant for human consumption)
Made from natural brown seaweed
Has just the right viscosity for both direct and reverse Spherification
✡ Highest Quality Assured by Strict Orthodox Union Certification Standards
Perfect for Molecular Gastronomy and Modernist Cooking applications
Details: 100% Pure Food Grade Sodium Alginate Powder (e401) for use in spherification and molecular gastronomy. Sodium Alginate (E401) is extracted from brown seaweed. It is used as a stabilizer for ice cream, yogurt, cream, and cheese. It acts as a thickener and emulsifier for salad, pudding, jam, tomato juice, and canned products. It is a hydration agent for noodles, bread, cool and frozen products. In the presence of calcium and acid mediums, it forms resilient gels. It is a cold gelling agent that needs no heat to gel. It is most commonly used with calcium lactate or calcium chloride in the spherification process.
