This work was presented at the annual meeting of the Institut EuropÈen des Industries de la Gomme de Caroube (INEC) hold in Granada, Spain in May 200.
It describes the preexisting methods for discriminating between the locust bean gum (LBG)and guar gum, two gellifier agents extracted from the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua) and the guar plant (Cyamopsis tetragonolobus or C. tetragonoloba). Also, new meth
The interest in this discrimination comes from the different prices of the two additives, the LBG being more expensive than the guar gum.
