About Guar Gum          

From Guar plant‘s (Cyamopsis tetragonolobus) endosperm Guar Gum is derivative. Guar is a legume (a plant of pea family) crop grows best in sandy soils and needs moderate, flashing rainfall with lots of sunshine. Guar gum is found in the seeds of two annual leguminous plants (Cyamopsis tetragonolobus and psoralioides).

Guar gum is useful as a thickening agent for water and as a reagent for adsorption and hydrogen bonding with mineral and cellulosic surfaces. It is an edible carbohydrate polymer.

It is non-ionic, free flowing, low pale white colored, coarse to fine grounded powder and is water-soluble hydrocolloids.

Guar gum is used as a thickener and emulsifier in commercial food processing. It has almost 8 times the thickening power as corn starch, and is used in dressings, sauces, milk products, and baking mixes. It is also used in paper manufacturing, textiles, printing, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.

Guar Extracts

Guar Split/Gum 28% (+/- 1% variance) extracts from Guar seed.
The ratio of Churi and Korma 67% depending upon the quality of the seed.

	Split/Gum is further refined to Guar Powder
	Churi and Korma are used for Cattle Feed

Properties          

The guar gum is a polysaccharide which in water gives hexose sugar, mannose and galactose. These hexose sugars are soluble both in cold and hot water but it is insoluble in most of the organic solvents. In water it gives high viscosity even used small quantity. Strong acids cause hydrolysis and loss of viscosity; alkalies in strong concentration also tend to reduce the viscosity. Adding borax solution will form a gelatinous mass. Guar gum is compatible with starch, alginate, agar etc.

	It is easily soluble in both hot and cold water.
	Properties of film forming.
	Remains stable in solution over wide range of pH values from
	5-7.
	Good thickening agent.
	High viscosity.
	Resistance to oils, greases and solvent.
	Capacity of Water binding.
	Functioning at low temperatures.
	Compatible with many other hydrocolloids used in food
	formulations.
	Versatility due to number of free hydroxy groups to
	make derivatives for specific applications.

Specifications                    

Quality          

Agro gum’s quality assurance department examines the quality of raw materials, semi-finished and finished products. These facilities are well-equipped to maintain international quality standards. The department workout physical & chemical analysis of Guar Gum for

Odour	Acid insoluble residue
Colour	Ash content
Viscosity	Gum content
Granulation	Heavy metals
Moisture, pH	Insoluble
Protein	Filterability
Fat content

The microbiological department performs bacteriological process control & testing of food grade products. The department formulates microbiological analyses and testing for

Standard plate count	E-coli
Yeast count	Salmonella
Mold count	Staphylococcus
Coli form	Pseudomonas

 

Packaging          

Special attention is paid in packing the bulk product by filling in suitable bag-sizes with standard measures to ensure product quality and safety during transit and storage.

Flexible packaging solutions from 800, 900 and 1000 kilo Jumbo HDPE circular woven bags and 25 kilo HDPE bags are also available in multi walled paper bags.