Carrageenan MBF-202 | 50 lbs Bag

Carrageenan MBF-202 is a Semi-Refined Kappa Carrageenan that is packaged by Ingredients Solutions Inc in bulk 50-pound bags. 

Carrageenan is extracted from certain seaweed types belonging to the Rhodophyceae family know as Red Seaweed. It is commonly used in the food and beverage industry as a thickener, stabilizer, and gelling agent. Carrageenan helps improve the texture of various products like dairy items (chocolate milk), plant-based meat, meat products, and desserts. Carrageenan is made with the following steps:

• Harvest and Clean
• Extraction: the Clean Carrageenan is heated in a alkaline solution (Calcium or Potassium Chloride) breaking down the seaweed releasing the carrageenan
• Filtration: Carrageenan and alkaline solution is separated from the remaining a solid seaweed residue
• Precipitation: The solution is mixed with alcohol or potassium salts to form a gel like product.
• Drying and Milling: Final step to process carrageenan is drying the gel like product into a fine product for commercial use.

MBF-202 is a very cost-effective kappa carrageenan designed for injection and/or vacuum tumbling in further-processed meat/poultry products. MBF-202 provides a cleaner gel color suitable for the lightest turkey, plant based meat, or chicken breast products. MBF-202 has a controlled particle swelling in cold brine, ensuring freedom from equipment clogging problems even at higher injection temperatures. MBF-202 provides excellent firmness, slice-ability and purge control in the finished meat and poultry product.