St John’s bread, Ceratonia

Classification Polysaccharide plant mucilage Definition Ground seed of the ripe fruit of St. John s Bread (Ceratonia siSqua)... 

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. 

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