Application field | Product type | Biochemical functionality |
Food industry | Thickener/Stabilizer | Viscosity enhancement for liquid products |
Texture enhancer | Texture improvement for bakery products and noodles | |
Animal feed supplement | Facilitating minerals absorption, improving bone growth, egg-shell strength, and albumin firmness, decreasing body fat | |
Health-care | Nutrition supplement | Facilitating calcium absorption, improving osteoporosis conditions |
Medical treatment | Controlled release drug carrier, medical bondage | Biocompatible carrier for cancer drug, gene therapy |
Cosmetics | Moisturizer | Improving skin-care quality, reducing skin wrinkle conditions |
Water treatment | Heavy metal absorbent | Removal of heavy metals and radionuclide |
Wastewater treatment | Biopolymer flocculants | Substitute for polyacrylamide or PAC |
Agriculture | Increase the quality and quantity of plants, Soil improvement, Seed coating | Inhibitor, anti-pathogen, High water absorbent |
ITEM | SPECIFICATION (Food/ Cosmetic grade) |
Physical Appearance | White to off-white, free-flow powders |
Purity (γ-PGA) | 92% (by HPLC) |
Molecular Weight | 700 kD (by GPC/HPLC) |
LD(Loss on Drying) | 10% max., by automatic infrared analyzer |
pH | 5.0~7.0 |
Clarity, OD400 (4% aq. sol’n) | 0.13 max. (Cosmetic Grade: 0.07 max.) |
Heavy metals | Total as Pb: 20 ppm max. |
TPC (CFU/g) | 3,000 max. (Cosmetic Grade 500 max.) |
E.coli | Negative |
Salmonella | Negative |
Particle size | 100% thru 100 mesh |
γ-PGA and its derivatives can be widely used in the food industry, cosmetics, health care, water treatment, hygienic products, medical and other fields.