Locust Bean Gum Production Cost Reports

Locust Bean Gum production cost report provides a comprehensive analysis and know-how for setting up a Locust Bean Gum production plant. The study covers all the requisite aspects that one needs to know for the production of Locust Bean Gum. This includes manufacturing processes, raw material requirements, utility requirements, infrastructure requirements, machinery and technology requirements, manpower requirements, packaging requirements, transportation requirements, etc.

Locust Bean Gum or carob gum is naturally derived from the leguminous carob tree's seed (Ceratonia siliqua), which works like a texturizing ingredient. It is native to Mediterranean countries and consists of three distinct elements, including the seed's surrounding husk, the germ (protein) and the endosperm (gum). As it is extracted from the carob tree's seeds, it is similar to the cacao plant using which white chocolate is made.

Locust Bean Gum is a fine white powder with a mildly sweet and subtle chocolate flavour. It plays a crucial role in improving the gel's strength and texture while preventing syneresis upon being used along with carrageenans. Its exceptional synergy with xanthan gum offers benefits like the formation of a highly elastic gel from two thickening agents and restricted syneresis.

It comprises an indigestible fibre, galactomannan polysaccharides, that have a long, chain-like molecular structure. These polysaccharides provide the gum with its special quality of turning a gel into liquid and also thickening foods. It is majorly made up of carbs in the form of fibre but also includes some amount of calcium, protein and sodium.

Locust Bean Gum is a natural thickener which is usually added to packaged food products and has applications in the culinary and food production industry. Its fruit part is typically used as a chocolate substitute. It's a hydrocolloid used as a thickener, stabilizer and emulsifier in food. Furthermore, it has wide application across several end-user industries like pharmaceuticals, paper, textile, oil well drilling and cosmetics (gels, creams and lotions in hair and skin care). Also, it can benefit the consumer with health ailments like bowel movements and diabetes, help with reflux in infants, and reduce levels of blood sugar and fat blood levels, heart disease and colon cancer because of its dietary fibre activity, which furthers the market demand.