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  Guar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The guar bean or cluster bean is an annual bean grown principally in India and Pakistan, with smaller crops grown in the USA, Australia and Africa.
Guar is drought-tolerant and can be eaten as a green bean, fed to cattle, or used as a green manure.
Guar beans have a large endosperm that contains galactomannan gum, a substance which forms a gel in water.
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 Guar gum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guar gum, a natural gum, is an edible thickening agent extracted from the guar bean (Cyamopsis tetragonoloba).
Guar gum is a cold water soluble polysaccharide, consisting of mannose and galactose units.
The largest market for guar gum (EU food additive code E412) is in the food industry, where guar gum is used as a thickener and binder of free water in sauces, salad dressings, ice creams, instant noodles, pet foods, processed meats, bread improvers and beverages to name some.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guar_gum   (262 words)

  
 Guar
In Asia, guar beans are used as a vegetable for human consumption, and the crop is also grown for cattle feed and as a green manure crop.
In the United States, highly refined guar gum is used as a stiffener in soft ice cream, a stabilizer for cheeses, instant puddings and whipped cream substitutes, and as a meat binder.
The guar midge (Contarinia texana) is the primary guar insect pest in the Southwest.
www.hort.purdue.edu /newcrop/afcm/guar.html   (2807 words)

  
 Multi Commodity Exchange   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
It is from the endosperm that guar gum is derived.
Guar is a crop of semi arid - sub tropical areas spread over the north and north west of India and east and south east of Pakistan.
Guar is a rain fed monsoon crop, which requires 8-15 inch of rain in 3-4 spells and is harvested in October - November.
www.mcxindia.com /guar_seed_res.aspx   (504 words)

  
 Guar gum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Guar gum (E412, also called guaran) is extracted from the seed of the leguminous shrub Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, where it acts as a food and water store.
Guar gum is made up of non-ionic polydisperse rod-shaped polymers consisting of molecules (longer than found in locust bean gum) made up of about 10,000 residues.
Guar gum is an economical thickener and stabilizer.
www.lsbu.ac.uk /water/hygua.html   (527 words)

  
 Guar
Guar is a yearly, summer legume and it is found in India and Pakistan.
It is definitely a soil -improving crop of high resistance to insects and diseases guar requires warm weather and a relatively long growing season of 20-25 weeks.
The guar seed is dicotyledonous with a diameter of approximately 3mm.The outer hull is a fibrous material, composed of different types of tissue distributed in very thin layers.
www.acegumindustries.com /other/guar.htm   (236 words)

  
 Guar Gum
The Guar or cluster bean is most likely native to India, where the young beans are used as a vegetable.
They are also used as a livestock feed, and for producing a guar gum, which is used as a thickener and emulsifier in commercial food processing.
Guar gum has almost 8 times the thickening power as cornstarch, and is used in dressings, sauces, milk products, and baking mixes.
www.barryfarm.com /nutri_info/thickeners/guar.htm   (149 words)

  
 G.M. Associates • The History of Guar •
The Guar is a naturally rain fed crop and the total size of Guar crop varies from year to year depending on the monsoon rainfall.
Guar Gum was found to be the most suitable substitute for scarce locust bean gum.
The technology of Guar Gum extraction was commercialized in 1953 in the USA and after approximately a decade in India.
www.gempolym.com /guarhistory.htm   (421 words)

  
 GUAR MEAL COULD BE USED AS CHICKEN FEED   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Guar is a drought-tolerant legume primarily grown in North Texas and southwestern Oklahoma.
Guar gum is derived from the finely ground endosperm, or the food storage area that surrounds the embryo, said Dr. John Sij, professor of soil and crop sciences at the Texas AandM University Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Vernon.
Guar gum is actually used to treat enteritis, or inflammation of intestines, in humans, he said.
agnews.tamu.edu /dailynews/stories/POSC/Sep1302a.htm   (921 words)

  
 Willy Benecke | Guar Gum
Guar Gum is derived from the ground endosperm of the guar plant, Cyanmopsis tetragonolobus belonging to the family Leguminosae.
Guar Gum is a natural high molecular weight hydrocolloidal polysaccharide composed of galactan and mannan units combined through glycosidic linkages, which may be described chemically as galactomannan.
In this field guar gum is used as an excellent binder of water and a stabilizer.
www.willy-benecke.com /guar_e.htm   (372 words)

  
 Guar gum as a carrier for colon specific delivery; influence of metronidazole and tinidazole on in vitro release of ...
Results: The guar gum matrix tablets of albendazole were found degraded by colonic bacteria of rat caecal contents and released about 44% of albendazole in simulated colonic fluids (control study) at the end of 24 h indicating the susceptibility of the guar gum formulations to the rat caecal contents.
Guar gum is being used to deliver drug to colon due to its drug release retarding property and susceptibility to microbial degradation in the large intestine (26-28).
Hence, the matrix tablets of albendazole containing 20% of guar gum were chosen as model formulation to assess the influence of metronidazole/ tinidazole treatment on the usefulness of guar gum as a carrier.
www.ualberta.ca /~csps/JPPS4(3)/Y.Krishnaiah/guargum.html   (4959 words)

  
 GUAR MAKES INROADS AS ALTERNATE CROP IN 1999   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In India, guar is grown as a vegetable, as cattle feed and as a soil-enriching green manure crop."
"Guar seed from those areas goes to a processing plant in Vernon — the only one in the United States — where guar gum is processed into friction-reducing agents for food and industrial applications ranging from ice cream to ‘frac' gels in oilfield drilling mud," the agronomist added.
Guar seed is about the same size as grain sorghum seed, so a planter equipped with grain sorghum planting plates fits the bill nicely, he added.
agnews.tamu.edu /stories/SOIL/Oct2699a.htm   (664 words)

  
 Products -- Guar Gum
Galactomannan polymer (guar gum) is a complex carbohydrate derived from the seed of specially grown bean plants.
Guar beans are grown primarily in Pakistan and India.
SJHV is a coarsely granulated guar gum for a wide range of industrial uses requiring ease of mixing and good ultimate viscosity.
www.ranteccorp.com /prod_guargum.htm   (308 words)

  
 Guar Gum / Products / Multi-Kem Corporation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Food-grade guar gum grades are from the seed endosperm of the guar plant (Cyamopsis tetragonolobus).
The physical and performance characteristics of specific guar grades are determined by mechanical treatment before and after the endosperm is milled to its final, light tan flour form.
Guar gum is also available in industrial-grade forms.
www.multikem.com /guar.html   (135 words)

  
 Guar Gum
Guar gum is extracted from the seed of Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, an annual leguminous plant originating from India.
Guar gum is an emulsifier, thickener, and stabilizer approved for use in a wide range of foods, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals.
In cosmetics, especially shampoos and toothpastes, guar gum is used primarily as a thickening and suspending agent.
www.umalaxmi.com /GuarGum.htm   (472 words)

  
 Guar: a precious industrial crop -DAWN - Business; September 22, 2003
It is guar, the industrial importance of which was realized by the middle of the 20th century, when its seeds were first used for making gum.
Guar is a legume, native to Pakistan and India.
Climatic and soil conditions prevalent in Thar and Nara Valley in Sindh, Thal and Cholistan in the Punjab, Lasbella and Sibi in Balochistan and D.I. Khan in the NWFP.
www.dawn.com /2003/09/22/ebr10.htm   (787 words)

  
 Guar gum exporters,guar gum manufacturers,india,guar gum products exporters,guargum manufacturers,guargum exporters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Its guar gum exporters, guar gum manufacturers, guar gum products suppliers, food emulsifier exporter have reached to many countries and today there is a lot of demand for indian guar gum products, food additives, food thickener and other allied guar gum products.
Guar gum is extracted from the seed of Cyamopsis tetragonoloba, an annual leguminous plant originating from India and Pakistan, also cultivated in the United States.
Guar Gum grows best in sandy soils, in areas of West, Northwest India and parts of Pakistan, which are ideal for it's farming.
www.guargum.info   (520 words)

  
 176. Guar gum (FAO Nutrition Meetings Report Series 46a)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
GUAR GUM This polysaccharide consists mainly of galacto mannans.
Biological Data Biochemical aspects The digestibility of guar gum in rats fed 0.4 g/day was estimated to be 76 per cent.
Comments Guar gum is consumed in some parts of the world as a component of guar flour.
www.inchem.org /documents/jecfa/jecmono/v46aje45.htm   (642 words)

  
 National Commodity & Derivatives Exchange Limited
Guar is being grown in India since ancient time and the Tender Green Guar is an important source of nutrition to animals and humans and is consumed as a vegetable and cattle feed The Guar legume plant is an agricultural product grown in arid zones of west and North West India and parts of Pakistan.
Guar is a rain fed monsoon crop, which requires 8-15 inch of rain in 3-4 spell and is generally sown after the monsoon rainfall in the second half of July to early August and is harvested in October - November.
The Guar has the properties to regenerate soil nitrogen and the endosperm of guar seed is an important hydrocolloid widely used across a broad spectrum of industries.
www.ncdex.com /Products/products_agro_guar.aspx?Type=Gen   (758 words)

  
 Guar Gum 700mg 120 Caps, NOW Foods reviews and ratings at MSN Shopping
Guar is a leguminous plant that grows in semiarid regions of the world such as India and Pakistan.
NOW Foods SuperCol guar gum is prepared by removing the husk and germ portions before extracting the gum from the endosperm, to yield the pure product.Chemically, guar gum is a galactomannan.
Guar and xanthan gums act as a substitutes for the missing gluten in gluten free recipes.
shopping.msn.com /reviews/shp?itemId=105675076   (331 words)

  
 Supremegums.com : Supreme Gums Pvt. Ltd.: - Guar Gum
In India, guar is grown in the arid and semi-arid regions, particularly in north-western states of India: Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Uttar Pradesh.
Guar gum has found its use in almost all types of industries viz.
There are many properties of guar gum such as non ionic, neutral polysaccharide and viscosity builder for water system.
www.supremegums.com /guar.htm   (374 words)

  
 Guar Gum Uses
During the conditioning process the molecules of guar gum coat the material to be depressed making it water-avid and allowing it to remain in the suspension and pumped out the bottom of the float cell.
Guar gum is particularly valuable for use in freeze point depressed ice packs.
Guar gum has also been used as a gellant for super saturated nitrate solutions.
www.ranteccorp.com /guar_uses.htm   (1509 words)

  
 Guar Gum India
Guar Gum is a Natural Hydrocolloid obtained from the ground endosperm of the guar plant, Cyanmopsis tetragonolobus belonging to the family Leguminosae.
Guar gum is a polysaccharide (a long chain made of sugars) made of the sugars galactose and mannose.
Guar gum is used as a thickener in cosmetics, sauces, salad dressings, as an agent in ice cream that prevents ice crystals from forming, and as a fat substitute that adds the "mouth feel" of fat.
www.sssbiotic.com /product/guargum.asp   (268 words)

  
 GUAR MARKET UPDATE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
At the end of September, both forms of guar were trading within 10 percent of their recent highs, and over 30 percent above their recent lows.
Innovation: Current guar cultivar development and trial plantings are improving seed yields and increasing resistance to heat and drought.
Furthermore, with a significant percentage of the guar crop harvested by August, would diminish the dependence of the crop on the monsoon, as well as the uncertainty that lingers until the November/December harvest.
www.plthomas.com /guar_market_update100799.htm   (664 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The cationic guar gum and the cationic starch were added separately to the papermaking system and not as a blend.
Before the discovery of the present invention it was considered by those familiar with starch and guar gum chemistry to be difficult or nearly impossible to blend dry cationic starch and dry cationic guar gum for the purpose of adding them to the papermaking machine using conventional techniques, i.
It is known in the art that cationic guar gum and cationic starch improve drainage and strength of paper when added individually as solutions during the papermaking process.
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 315. Guar gum (WHO Food Additives Series 5)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
BIOLOGICAL DATA BIOCHEMICAL ASPECTS The digestibility of guar gum in rats fed 0.4 g/day was estimated to be 76% (Booths et al., 1963).
Feeding chicks for four weeks on a diet containing 3% cholesterol, 3% guar gum and 3% cholesterol plus 3% guar gum reduced the serum cholesterol levels, especially if both cholesterol and guar gum were ingested.
At 1 g level guar gum was equivalent to corn starch but at the 3 g level there was a lower equivalence.
www.inchem.org /documents/jecfa/jecmono/v05je57.htm   (774 words)

  
 What is Guar Gum ? Guar Gum Refined Splits (Endosperm) , Guar By products Churi and Korma for Cattle Feed
Guar Gum Refined Splits (Endosperm) is the raw material for processing Guar Gum Powder for Pharmaceutical and Food Grade material.
The most important property of Guar Gum is its ability to hydrate rapidly in cold water, to attain a very high viscosity relatively at low concentrations.
The food-grade Guar Gum is substantially pure polysaccharide.
www.satgum.com /guargum.as   (261 words)

  
 Guar gum does not impair the absorption and utilization of dietary nitrogen but affects early endogenous urea kinetics ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Guar gum does not impair the absorption and utilization of dietary nitrogen but affects early endogenous urea kinetics in humans -- Mariotti et al.
The effect of guar gum on the distribution of a radiolabelled meal in the gastrointestinal tract of the rat.
Effect of guar on amino acid absorption and the blood glucose, insulin, C-peptide and glucagon responses to jejunal amino acid and glucose perfusion in man. Eur J Clin Nutr 1988;42:871–6.
www.ajcn.org /cgi/content/full/74/4/487   (4393 words)

  
 Supremegums.com : Supreme Gums Pvt. Ltd., Manufacturer & Exporter of Guar Gum Powder,Guar Splits
Guar is grown in the arid and semi-arid regions, particularly in north-western states of India: Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, and Uttar Pradesh.
Galactomannan (guar gum) a high molecular weight carbohydrate polymer made up of a large number of mannose and galactose units linked together.
It is a straight chain of mannose branched at regular intervals with single membered galactose units on alternate mannose units.
www.supremegums.com   (197 words)

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