Sodium alginate

Sodium alginate is a natural water-soluble polysaccharide extracted from brown seaweed species. Sodium alginate possesses prominent thickening, stabilizing, and gelling properties and is extensively utilized in food science applications, including molecular gastronomy. Sodium alginate is additionally applicable to biomaterial engineering, hydrogel formation, controlled-release systems, tissue engineering, and polysaccharide-based biomedical research.