GUAR APPLICATIONS
food grade
Ice-cream & Dairy Products
- Provides smooth and creamier texture
- Prevents formation of ice crystals
- Prevents quick meltdown
- As a stabilizer & binder
Soups & Gravies
- As a viscosifier
- Increases shelf-life
- As a stabilizer & binder
Bakery Products
- Increases shelf life
- Improves moisture retention
- Better sheet formation
Sauces & Salad preparations
- Guar gum acts as a water binder in sauces and salad dressings and reduces water and oil separation
Noodles
- Better sheet formation
- Improves moisture retention
- Improves texture
- Improves machine runnability,thereby increasing production
Beverages
- Guar gum provides outstanding viscosity control.
Pharmaceuticals
- Guar gum is used in the pharmaceutical industry as a gelling, viscosifying, thickening, stabilizing, emulsifying and binding agent.
- In tablet manufacturing, it is used as a binding agent and in micro-encapsulation of drugs.
Fish Feed and Pet Food
- Guar gum forms gels and retains moisture, acts as a thickening agent and stabilizer
industrial grade
Cosmetics Industry
- Guar gum is used as a thickener, protective colloid in Skin care products, creams and lotions
- Used in toothpaste and shaving cream for easy extruding from the tube
Textile Industry
- Guar gum gives excellent film forming and thickening properties when used for textile sizing, finishing and printing
- It improves efficiency in production
Metallurgical and Mining Industry
- Guar gum is widely used as a flocculent to produce liquid solid separation
- It is also used in flotation
Paper
- Guar gum gives denser surface to the paper used for printing
- It helps improved writing properties, better bonding strength and increased hardness
In Oil Field Applications
- Guar gum is used in oil well fracturing, oil well stimulation, mud drilling and shale gas fracturing
- It is used as drilling aids in oil wells and geological and water drilling
- It is used as a viscosifier to maintain drilling mud viscosities.
Animal Feed
Cattle Feed
- Raw guar meal is used as a source of protein in the cattle feed
Poultry Feed
- Toasted guar meal is used as a source of protein in the poultry feed