What is the chemistry behind the gelling property of sodium alginate?
Sodium alginate
What is the chemistry behind the gelling property of sodium alginate?
What is the chemistry behind the gelling property of sodium alginate?
What is the chemistry behind the gelling property of sodium alginate?
Food R&D Emeritus reply
posted@Utkarsh_Singh
The chemistry of alginate gelling is well known.. as a food technologist you should be familiar with it.
If not its primarily divalent - univalent ion exchange.The soluble sodium ion in sodium alginate is displaced by calcium ions forming the denser calcium. alginate gel..