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carrageenan
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car·ra·geen·an or car·ra·geen·in (kr-gnn)
n.
Any of a group of closely related colloids derived from several red algae, widely used as a thickening, stabilizing, emulsifying, or suspending agent in pharmaceuticals.


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covers the full range of carbohydrates available as food and related issues, including carbohydrate reactions, monosaccharides, oligosaccharides, polysaccharides (occurrence, structures, chemistry and properties) starches and their products, cellulose and cellulosics, gums (guar, locust bean and tara), gum Arabic and other exudate gums, xanthan, carrageenans, algins and alginates, pectins, carbohydrates and noncarbonhydrate sweeteners, and gellans, curdlan, dextrans and levans.
Whereas carrageenans, alginates and xanthan gums decrease the temperature of starch gelatinization, optimum levels of METHOCEL can delay its initiation.
Carrageenans seem to be able to identify unfriendly proteins such as viruses and prevent them binding to human cell surfaces.
 
 
 
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