Alginate / Propylene Glycol Alginate

Alginate is a natural polysaccharide that comprises from 30 to 60% of brown algae(on dry weight basis). Alginate has dietary fibre properties. Alginic acid usually accumulates in seaweeds as `jelly bodies` after combining with minerals from seawater. These gel bodies fill the seaweed cells. The litheness of seaweeds growing in the ocean is a result of the flexibility that these jelly bodies, i.e. alginates, provides to the structure of the seaweed.