Biologically Active Substance
carrageenan Audio
car·ra·gee·nan [ kar-uh-gee-nuhn ]
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Definitions related to carrageenan:
  • A water-soluble extractive mixture of sulfated polysaccharides from RED ALGAE. Chief sources are the Irish moss CHONDRUS CRISPUS (Carrageen), and Gigartina stellata. It is used as a stabilizer, for suspending COCOA in chocolate manufacture, and to clarify BEVERAGES.
    NLM Medical Subject Headings
    U.S. National Library of Medicine, 2025
  • Water-soluble extractive mixture of sulfated polysaccharides from red algae.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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