Identification

Namegellan gum
CAS Number71010-52-1
FDA UNII7593U09I4D
MDL NumberMFCD00131909

Regulatory

FDA/DG SANTE Petitions, Reviews, NoticesEU SANCO
JECFA Food AdditiveGellan Gum
GSFA CodexGellan gum (418)
DG SANTE Food Additivesgellan gum
FDA Mainterm (SATF)71010-52-1 ; GELLAN GUM
FDA RegulationFDA PART 172 -- FOOD ADDITIVES PERMITTED FOR DIRECT ADDITION TO FOOD FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION

Physical Properties

Appearance white to tan powder (est)
Assay 95.00 to 100.00
Food Chemicals Codex Listed No
Soluble in water
Insoluble in alcohol

Cosmetic Information

CosIngcosmetic data
Cosmetic Usesfilm formers

No sensory data available

Safety Information

Preferred SDSView
Oral/Parenteral ToxicityNot determined
Dermal ToxicityNot determined
Inhalation ToxicityNot determined

GHS Classification

['GHS Classification in accordance with 29 CFR 1910 (OSHA HCS)', 'GHS Label elements, including precautionary statements']

Safety in Use

Categorythickeners, gelling agents, stabilizers
Recommendation for gellan gum usage levels up tonot for fragrance use.
Recommendation for gellan gum flavor usage levels up tonot for flavor use.

American International Chemical, Inc.

Consistent sources

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Potential Uses

film formers

Natural Occurrence

pseudomonas elodea PMC

Synonyms

pseudomonas elodea gum PubMed: Probe diffusion in phase-separated bicontinuous biopolymer gels. PubMed: Self-structuring foods based on acid-sensitive low and high acyl mixed gellan systems to impact on satiety. PubMed: Application of gellan gum in pharmacy and medicine. PubMed: Recent development of chitosan-based polyelectrolyte complexes with natural polysaccharides for drug delivery. PubMed: Improving adhesion of seasonings to crackers with hydrocolloid solutions. PubMed: A new strategy to enhance gellan production by two-stage culture in Sphingomonas paucimobilis. PubMed: Effect of sweeteners and hydrocolloids on quality attributes of reduced-calorie carrot juice. PubMed: Chitosan-gellan electrostatic complexes: influence of preparation conditions and surfactant presence. PubMed: An insight into the emerging exopolysaccharide gellan gum as a novel polymer. PubMed: Recent trends and applications of encapsulating materials for probiotic stability. PubMed: Structural studies on matrices of deacylated gellan with polydextrose. PubMed: The effect of three gums on the retrogradation of indica rice starch. PubMed: Food gels: gelling process and new applications. PubMed: Predicting the human in vivo performance of different oral capsule shell types using a novel in vitro dynamic gastric model. PubMed: A semi-fluid gellan gum medium improves nematode toxicity testing. PubMed: A review of the application of atomic force microscopy (AFM) in food science and technology. PubMed: Particle stability in dilute fermented dairy drinks: formation of fluid gel and impact on rheological properties. PubMed: Gellan gum as an immobilization matrix for the production of cyclosporin A. PubMed: Improving the culturability of freshwater bacteria using FW70, a low-nutrient solid medium amended with sodium pyruvate. PubMed: Xanthan and gellan degradation by bacteria of activated sludge. PubMed: Gellan gum: a new biomaterial for cartilage tissue engineering applications. PubMed: Performance of new gellan gum hydrogels combined with human articular chondrocytes for cartilage regeneration when subcutaneously implanted in nude mice. PubMed: Flexible microfluidic device for mechanical property characterization of soft viscoelastic solids such as bacterial biofilms. PubMed: Development and characterization of a blood mimicking fluid for high intensity focused ultrasound. PubMed: Natural gum reduced/stabilized gold nanoparticles for drug delivery formulations. PubMed: Molecular structures of gellan gum imaged with atomic force microscopy in relation to the rheological behavior in aqueous systems in the presence or absence of various cations. PubMed: Occurrence, production, and applications of gellan: current state and perspectives. PubMed: Alginate- and gellan-based edible films for probiotic coatings on fresh-cut fruits. PubMed: Time-temperature studies of gellan polysaccharide-high sugar mixtures: effect of sodium ions on structure formation. PubMed: Genetically engineered Fusarium as a tool to evaluate the effects of environmental factors on initiation of trichothecene biosynthesis. PubMed: Optimal thermotolerance of Bifidobacterium bifidum in gellan-alginate microparticles. PubMed: Statistical approach to optimization of fermentative production of gellan gum from Sphingomonas paucimobilis ATCC 31461. PubMed: Hydrocolloid carriers with filler inclusion for diltiazem hydrochloride release. PubMed: Controlled release of protein from hydrocolloid gel microbeads before and after drying. PubMed: Physicochemical properties and biological activities of DEAE-derivatized Sphingomonas gellan. PubMed: Gel trapping of dense colloids. PubMed: Binding effect of Cu(2+) as a trigger on the sol-to-gel and the coil-to-helix transition processes of polysaccharide, gellan gum. PubMed: Solution properties of gellan gum: change in chain stiffness between single- and double-stranded chains. PubMed: Organization of genes required for gellan polysaccharide biosynthesis in Sphingomonas elodea ATCC 31461. PubMed: A new in vitro assay of cholesterol adsorption by food and microbial polysaccharides. PubMed: Konjac/gellan gum mixed gels improve the quality of reduced-fat frankfurters. PubMed: Gelatin vs polysaccharide in mixture with sugar. PubMed: Microencapsulation of probiotic bacteria: technology and potential applications. PubMed: Molecular structure of the rhamsan-like exocellular polysaccharide RMDP17 from Sphingomonas paucimobilis. PubMed: Alpha and beta mechanical dispersions in high sugar/acyl gellan mixtures. PubMed: Rheological evidence of the gelation behavior of hyaluronan-gellan mixtures. PubMed: Gellan gum. PubMed: Survival of bifidobacteria in yogurt and simulated gastric juice following immobilization in gellan-xanthan beads. PubMed: Unsaturated glucuronyl hydrolase of Bacillus sp. GL1: novel enzyme prerequisite for metabolism of unsaturated oligosaccharides produced by polysaccharide lyases. PubMed: Characterization of alpha-L-rhamnosidase of Bacillus sp. GL1 responsible for the complete depolymerization of gellan. PubMed: Molecular cloning of two genes for beta-D-glucosidase in Bacillus sp. GL1 and identification of one as a gellan-degrading enzyme. PubMed: Effects of curdlan and gellan gum on the surface structure of intestinal mucosa in rats. PubMed: Microbial system for polysaccharide depolymerization: enzymatic route for gellan depolymerization by Bacillus sp. GL1. PubMed: Purification and characterization of microbial gellan lyase. PubMed: Imaging polysaccharides by atomic force microscopy. PubMed: Interactions of ordered water and cations in the gel-forming polysaccharide gellan gum. PubMed: Light scattering studies of tetramethyl ammonium gellan. PubMed: A follow-up study of the ingestion of gellan gum by humans, with special reference to the absence of eosinophilia. PubMed: The dietary effects of gellan gum in humans.