Benefits of Guar Gum & Its Byproducts

Guar gum is derived from guar plants as well from the seeds of Cyamopsis tetragonolobus and psoralioides. Guar gum is known with different names in different languages like in French it is known as "Gomme de guar", in German it is called as "Guarkernmehl" and in spanish it is identified as "Goma guar" etc. There are lots of industrial, commercial and health benefits of Guar gum, Guar gum powder and its byproducts, due to its multifaceted properties. Here it is discussed the broad spectrum benefits of guar gum and its byproducts as below-

Food Industry

Guar gum is water soluble thickening agent with adsorption ability to create hydrogen bonding to generate carbohydrate polymer. This fine granule powder forms hydrocolloids with water, which is used as thickener in commercial food processing and also used as an emulsifier. It is used in manufacturing of ice-cream and puddings as additive.

Health

Guar gum is good for health. Guar gum intake in meal can help you to slow down the blood sugar, blood pressure and cholesterol level. Thus the nutritious food with guar gum is quite useful for diabetic and heart patients.

Pharmaceutical

Guar gum as laxative is good pharmaceutical product. It can be added in laxative medicines. Its anti-acid property is used in produce medicine to cure hyper acidity. It is an additive used to create viscous jelly form in cosmetic cream manufacturing units.

Diet Plan

Guar gum food is a good diet plan for obese people. It creates a sense of full stomach on intake. It reduces the hunger in human and people can utilize the internal body fat as a ready source of energy rather than food intake from outside. This way, people can reduce their body weight effectively with using Guar gum in their regular food.

Commercial industrial use

Guar gum is one of the best thickening agents used in various industries to produce a final product like paper and pulp, cosmetic, textile, health, medicine, food and animal feed etc.

Petroleum Industry

Fast hydration and cold water viscosity is obtained from guar gum and guar gum seeds. This is very much important in production process of petroleum, oil drilling and exploration activities. Thus Guar gum seeds are highly demanded in USA and Middle East refineries that is exported by guar gum manufacturers in India.

Guar gum splits are derived from guar seeds and used in different wide range industrial applications like Petroleum & Oil drilling, textile & printing, food, pet food, cosmetic and Pharma, toiletries paper, tanneries, mining, explosives etc.

The husk and germ of guar gum seeds are used as cattle feed that is known as Guar meal. This cattle food guar gum seeds contain good amount of protein and carbohydrate that can be given to animals separately as food or even can mix with other foodstuff as nutritious powder. Due to wide range of applications and benefits, Guar gum and its byproducts are highly demanded across the industries and used as food as well for commercial applications.

This article has been written by Biren Patel working at Agro Gums. Agro Gums is a guar and cassia gum manufacturing company offering high quality guar gum powder, fast hydration guar gum powder, cassia powder, guar splits and guar meal to satisfy the production requirements of various industries across the world.