Gelatine
Gelatine is mainly used as a gelling agent, whipping agent, protective colloid, binding agent, clarifying agent, thickener, stabilizer, emulsifier, foam former and adhesive agent. Gelatine offers these properties to different industries such as food, pharma and technical usages around the world.
Gelatine is universal and an important raw material for innovations.
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APPLICATION AREAS
Food products such as dairy products, dessert, meat, sausage, confectionary products etc..
Dessert
Ice Cream
Dessert
Confectionary Products
Dessert
Edible Gelatine
The unique property of gelatine is that the built gels melt at body temperature, besides shaping the products and giving the right texture.
Confectionary — Gelatine is used as gel former, whipping agent, binding agent, protective colloid and emulsifier. It is commonly used in confectionary products because it foams, gels, and solidifies into a piece which melts in the mouth. Gelatine is used in the production of gummies, toffees, chewy candies and whipped confectionaries, such as marshmallows.
Desserts — Gelatine is used as stabilizer for cream fillings and frozen desserts, and helps to firm consistency in milk products and mousse desserts.
Ice cream — Gelatine firm consistency and ensures ice cream's delicious melting-in-the-mouth sensation.
Special Dietary Uses — Hydrolysed form of gelatine is used to protein fortify dietary foods.
Pharmaceutical
Gelatine has proved its versatility in applications for the pharmaceutical industry and medicine, such as production of capsules, tablets, constituent of wound dressings, haemostatic sponges and blood volume substitutes.
Gelatine is an important raw material for the production of hard and soft capsules, along with film-coated and effervescent tablets. It is also used as emergency medicine for manufacturing blood substitutes, such as plasma expanders. Gelatine sponges and films are used in the surgical field, such as for new tissue to grow into the sponges, since the body can completely resorb the sponges or films in few days.
The use of gelatine in pharmaceutical industry is in production of two-piece hard capsules, soft elastic capsules, tableting, tablet coating, granulation, encapsulation and micro-encapsulation, absorbable gelatine sponge, plasmas substitutes, absorbable gelatine film and pastilles.
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