You probably don’t cook with it at home, but the odds are good that you’re eating carrageenan. Made from seaweed, carrageenan is used as a thickener, stabilizer, and emulsifying agent to keep the ...

Carrageenan is a food additive derived from red seaweed used to thicken and stabilize processed foods. While its degraded form, poligeenan, increases cancer risk, carrageenan does not. Carrageenan is ...

Researchers from the Technical University of Denmark (DUT) have discovered a way to extract proteins from three varieties of seaweed. The project, which was headed up by Professor Charlotte Jacobsen, ...

Sara Baker says the light went on in her head after a cup of hot cocoa set off a storm in her stomach. “I went back and looked at the package, and there it was: carrageenan,” said Baker, a career ...

The agricultural benefits of carrageenan are achieved from its building blocks: the long-chain carrageenan polymer that can be broken down into shorter chain fragments known as oligomers (“oligo” for ...

Prices for gum ingredients and other hydrocolloids may resemble a wave: rising, cresting, falling. Gum sources, including carrageenan, agar and alginates, also may come from the sea, as in seaweed.

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