Alginate

A naturally-occurring, sustainable food ingredient extracted from brown seaweed

Alginate is a polysaccharide derived from brown seaweeds that offers superior gelling properties. It helps to impart freeze/thaw stability and offers a broad range of flow properties for aqueous-based systems.

The seaweeds used to produce alginates are incredibly sustainable. Wild harvested brown seaweeds use no land and require no fertilizers or irrigation. Seaweeds are harvested using sustainable ocean management and harvesting practices. This makes it a great ingredient for today’s environmentally conscious consumers.

Key Benefits

Prevents moisture migration, including syneresis and purge control
Helps to restructure foods such as fish or meat
Improves the bake stability and mouthfeel of fillings
Retards ice crystal formation and helps control meltdown

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Seaweed Brochure

DuPont Seaweed Sustainability Infographic

Product Name	Benefits	Application
PROTANAL®	For fruit fillings: Easier to disperse, excellent bake stability, enables gelling at a wide range of sugar levels, provides excellent shelf stability, improves clarity and gloss, provides good fruit flavor and appearance. For cream fillings: Allows for both slow and quick setting. For ice cream and frozen desserts: Improves mouthfeel and shelf life by retarding ice crystal formation. Helps control meltdown. For both hot or cold structured foods: Allows better utilization of raw materials with no waste materials in the process. Is “heat and freeze”-thaw stable and provides the necessary mechanical strengths for processing. For sausage casings: Provides the necessary mechanical strengths for processing.	Bakery fillings Dairy foods and desserts Restructured foods, meat, sauces and dressings Dressings Sauces Beverages, including non-dairy

Application Areas

Beverages

When you open the door to DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences for your beverage needs, you gain access to unmatched application expertise, science-driven solutions, the full DuPont™ Danisco® range of ingredients, and extensive market knowledge and deep consumer insights that drive competitive advantage.

Bars

When you choose DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences, you get more than simply ingredients. You gain access to unique expertise, experience and capabilities in nutrition bar formulation and marketing that can help advance your business priorities.

Dairy

Take a deeper look inside DuPont Nutrition & Biosciences for your cheese, yogurt and other dairy needs. See how our market insights, research, and experience can open up your potential to satisfy nutrition-conscious consumers while keeping your costs down.

Frozen Desserts

For more than half a century, we have solved the challenges of the frozen desserts industry, including today’s demands for low/no sugar and fat formulations.

Fruit Applications

Our broad assortment of stabilizers helps you create the preferred texture, great flavor release and high stability in your fruit applications, whether those include high- or low-sugar fruit spreads (jams), bakery fillings, yogurt fruit preparations or fruit sauces.

Meat, Poultry & Seafood

With proactive science-based innovation, broad market expertise and over 50 years of collaborative applications in meat, poultry and seafood, DuPont stands out as your go-to solutions provider.