Sodium alginate is widely used in various industries including food, textile printing and pharmaceutical. Dental impression material utilizes alginate as its means of gelling. Alginate is present in the cell walls of brown algae, as the calcium, magnesium and sodium salts of alginic acid. Alginates are refined from brown seaweeds. A wide variety of brown seaweeds of the phylum Phaeophyceae are harvested globally and converted into raw material, ... Read more
Alginates are a group of naturally occurring anionic polysaccharides, obtained from brown algae cell walls. Alginates have potential application in biomedical and pharmaceutical sectors. Furthermore, they are also used in food products based on their thickening and stabilizing properties. They have wide application in the food industry and are used in the preparation of jams, jellies, and marmalades.
