Tamarind kernel powder

Tamarind kernel powder is insoluble in cold water, but upon heating forms thick viscous coUoidal dispersions at relatively low concentrations (2—3%). Upon drying, elastic films are formed. Tamarind seed polysaccharide is used as a low cost textile sizing agent in India. 

Tamarind kernel powder has around 15 % dietary fibre and 14% crude protein. Crude lipid is around 8%, 4.5% ash and has a calorific value of 1511kj/100g dry matter. Total protein fractionation revealed that lOOg of seed flour yields around 7g protein, of which... 

Tamarind has tartaric acid as its major organic acid component. Many polyphenols are found in the coat of the tamarind fruit. Tamarind kernel powder (TKP) has a xyloglucan, which has a variety of uses. TKP, a crude extract of tamarind seeds, has been used as a replacement for... 

Goyal, P., Kumar, V. and Sharma, P. (2006) Carboxymethylation of tamarind kernel powder. Carbohydrate Polymers 69(2), 251-255. 

The major industrial product of tamarind seed is the tamarind kernel powder (TKP) which is an important sizing material used in the textile, paper, and jute industries 17). Tamarind seed is also the raw material used in the manufacture of polysaccharide (jellose), adhesive and tarmin. In 1942, two Indian scientists aimounced that decorticated kernels contained 46-48% of a gel-forming... 

Ghosh P, Ganguly PK (1994) Polyacrylonitrile (PAN)-grafted jute fibers some physical and chemical properties and morphology. J Appl Polym Sci 52 77-84 Goyal P (2008) Chemical modification of tamarind kernel powder. Ph. D. thesis. Forest Research Institute, Deemed University, Dehradun, India... 

P. Goyal, V. Kumar, and P. Sharma, Graft copolymerization of acrylamide onto tamarind kernel powder in the presence of ceric ion, / Appl. Polym. Sci., 108 (6), 3696-3701,2008. 

Sabu, A., Pandey, A., Jaafar Daud, M. and Szakacs, G. (2005) Tamarind seed powder and palm kernel cake two novel agro residues for the production of tannase under solid state fermentation by Aspergillus niger ATCC 1 6620. Bioresource Technology 96(1 1), 1223-1228. 

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