Carrageenan

A unique, sustainable line of ingredients for making foods and beverages more nutritious and delicious

Extracted from red seaweeds found off the coasts of the Philippines, Indonesia, Canada, Tanzania, and Chile, carrageenan is a naturally occurring hydrocolloid that provides structure, gelation and viscosity for a variety of food applications.

The seaweeds used to produce carrageenan are incredibly sustainable. Wild harvested red 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

Enables nutrient and particle suspension
Imparts a gelled spoonable texture
Replaces fat and promotes a creamy mouthfeel
Retains water and reduces cooking loss
Improves sliceability

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Seaweed Brochure

DuPont Seaweed Sustainability Infographic

Product Name	Benefits	Application
VISCARIN®	Provides a smooth, clean mouthfeel with excellent flavor release Increases control of viscosity, stabilization, and suspension Allows for water binding Helps to maintain high moisture in applications	Dressings Sauces Beverages, including non-dairy
GELCARIN®	Provides water gelling, texture control, and syneresis control Enables transparency Adds elastic texture Superior shelf stability in dry mix	Non-dairy desserts Fruit preparations Glazings and fillings Confectionery Bars Processed meat
LACTARIN®	Specifically for dairy beverages Provides stabilization, viscosity, and excellent flavor release Allows for cocoa suspension Offers superior mouthfeel	Dairy foods and desserts Beverages
LACTOGELl®	Specifically for dairy foods and desserts Adds a creamy texture Enhances flavor release with low process viscosity	Dairy desserts (hot or cold processing) Cheese

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.