Locust bean, endosperm

Locust bean (carob) is derived from the endosperm portion of seeds of a tree widely cultivated in the Mediterranean area. It is a polysaccharide built of mannose units with short branches of single galactose units, with an average molecular weight of 310,000. 

Locust Bean Gum. Locust bean gum [9000-40-2], also known as catob seed gum, is a galactomannan extracted from the endosperm of the catob tree seed which is cultivated in the Mediterranean area. The primary use of locust bean gum is in dairy appHcations such as ice cream. It is often used in conjunction with carrageenan because the chemical stmctures of the two enable them to cross-link and form a gel (85). 

Locust Bean Gum. Locust bean gum [9000-40-2] is produced by milling the seeds from the leguminous evergreen plant, Ceratonia siliqua or carob tree, which is widely grown in the Mediterranean area. Pods produced by the carob tree consist of a husk, embryo, and endosperm. The latter, the source of the gum, is separated from the tough outer husk and the yeUow embryo tissue by a variety of rolling and milling operations, and subsequently is milled into a fine powder (60). 

Like guaran, and the endosperm polysaccharides of other legumes, locust bean (carob)gum [9000-40-2] is also a galactomaiman. Like guaran, it has a linear backbone of (1 — 4)-1inked P-D-mannopyranosyl units. However, in locust bean gum, approximately one of every 3.9 P-D-mannopyranosyl units, on the average, is substituted with an a-D-galactopyranosyl unit attached at 0-6. 

Commercial locust bean gum is the ground endosperm of the seeds of the locust bean (carob) tree. The general properties of locust bean gum are similar to those of guar gum. Differences are its low cold-water solubiUty and its synergistic gelation with kappa-carrageenan, furceUaran, and xanthan... 

Locust bean gum is extracted from the endosperm of the seeds of the carob tree, Ceratonia siliqua, which grows in Mediterranean countries. 

This material is another plant polysaccharide. The source is the seeds of the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua), also known as the locust bean tree. The trees grow around the Mediterranean and in California. An alternative name for the fruit is Saint John s Bread . An impure material called carob pod flour can be produced by just removing the hulls and milling the endosperms directly. An impure product like this will give a... 

Mannans have been found in some kinds of plants such as endosperms of copra and ivory palm nuts, guar beans, locust beans, coffee beans and roots of konjak Amorphophallus konjac). Most of these saccharides are used only in the food and feed processing industries. Recently, it has been reported that manno-oligosaccharides are useful as one of the best growth factors for Bifidobacterium sp. and Lactobacillus... 

The polysaccharidic galactomannans which occur94 in the endosperms of guar, locust bean, carob bean, and many other legumes have been... 

Locust bean or carob Thickener exhibits Galactomannan Endosperm of locust... 

Ceratonia is a naturally occurring material obtained from the ground endosperms separated from the seeds of the locust bean tree, Ceratonia siliqua (Leguminosae). The tree is indigenous to southern Europe and the Mediterranean region. 

E410 Locust Bean (Carob) gum Stabiliser Thickener Gelling agent Endosperm of the seeds of Ceratonia siliqua... 

LBG comes from the endosperm of the locust bean,15 which the first-century Greeks used as a laxative and as a paste to bind mummies.14 It is a white, odorless powder without a distinctive taste and is not to be confused with carob, which is a chocolate substitute which comes from the locust bean husk. 

Tara gum] soluble with an intermediate galactose-mannose ratio of locust bean gum and guar gum. It is obtained by crushing the seed endosperm. 

Once the pod tree [Caesalpinia spinosa) is harvested, it is washed and dried, and then the seed is removed from the pod. Following the separation, the separately ground pit shell, which is an extraordinary product, is exported as a raw material for the production of tannic acid, which is widely used in the chemical, paint, and high-quality fur industries and pharmaceuticals. The seeds, or the pips, after undergoing a thermal-mechanical process, result in a gum from the endosperm, which is an alternative to the traditional rubber in the global food industry, pharmaceuticals, paints, and varnishes, among others. This gum has been approved by resolution of September 26, 1996 (ECC N° E-417) by the European Community for use as a thickener and stabilizer in food for human consumption. Thus came into picture the global market for food hydrocolloids as an alternative product to the locust bean gum, produced in Spain and the Middle East. 

Seed gums are obtained from certain types of seed endosperms. They are common in the legume (Fabaceae) family, for example locust bean gum and tamarind gum. 

Natural locust bean gum refers to the endosperm powder of locust bean. It is separated from locust bean by infusion method and mechanical method. The depressing performance of natural locust bean gum is not good. Therefore, it needs to be further processed. 

Locust gum, also called locust bean gum, carob, carobin or algar-roba, is obtained as flour from the endosperm of seeds of the carob tree also known as St John s bread Ceratonia siliqua, Cae-sapliniaceae). The tree comes from the Western Mediterranean region (Southern Europe, Northern Africa), but now grows mainly in Spain and in the subtropical regions of the United States and Australia. 

Locust bean gum is derived from the seed of the caroh, Ceratonia siliqua L. (see carob). The seed consists of 33-46% endosperm, 30-33% seed coat (husk), and 23-30% emhryo (germ). 

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