Ghatti

A wide variety of plant exudates have been used ia foods and medicines for centuries, including acacia, karaya, and ghatti. Plant gums derived from seeds iaclude arabic, guar, locust bean, tamatind, and tara. AH play a role ia fat replacement either singly or ia mixtures. 

Although many plant gum exudates are known (37,38), only gum arable, ghatti, karaya, and tragacanth have wide industrial use. 

Gum Ghatti. Gum ghatti [9000-28-61] is an exudate Foxn.xinogeissus latifolia a tree that is found in India and Sri Lanka. The exudations are natural, but yields can be increased by making artificial incisions. The sun-dried gum is classified according to color and impurities and processed by grinding to a fine powder. 

Gum ghatti is the calcium and magnesium salt of a complex polysaccharide which contains L-arabinose, D-galactose, D-mannose, and D-xylose and D-glucuronic acid (48) and has a molecular weight of approximately 12,000. On dispersion in water, gum ghatti forms viscous solutions of viscosity intermediate between those of gum arabic and gum karaya. These dispersions have emulsification and adhesive properties equivalent to or superior to those described for gum arabic. 

In foods and pharmaceuticals, gum ghatti has been used in many appheations described for gum arabic, particularly as an emulsifier for oil and water emulsions (49). It has also been used as a waterproofing agent in Hquid explosives, and to stabilize paraffin wax emulsions. However, in the 1990s, gum... 

Gum acacia gum tragacanth (a similar gum) gum karaya (also a similar gum) gum ghatti (also a similar gum)... 

It is used in hard candies and as a foam stabilizer in marshmallows. The similar products gum tragacanth, gum karaya, and gum ghatti are used in much the same way—as acid-resistant thickeners in sauces and salad dressings. 

Polysaccharide materials Starch, cellulose, plant gums (arabic gum, tragacanth, karaya, ghatti, guar, locust bean, fruit tree gum) Paper, paint binders, adhesives... 

Plant — Arabic gum — Tragacanth gum — Karaya gum — Ghatti gum Cellulose derivatives — Carboxymethylcellulose — Methylcellulose — Hydroxyethylcellulose — Cellulose acetate phthalate... 

Gum Ghatti occurs as colorless or light to dark tan tears. It is also available as a gray to red-gray powder. It is the dried... 

Natural gums include plant exudates, seed gums, plant extracts, seaweed extracts, and the extracellular microbial polysaccharides. Plant exudates include gum arabic, gum ghatti, gum karaya, and gum tragacanth. Seed gums include... 

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