Which gum/gums to use to get a gummy texture when using Agar agar powder

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Trying to do a school project that needs me to make gummies from scratch in an innovative way. I decided to go with Agar agar for a vegan based gummy. Unfortunately, once I make the gummies the agar agar sets but I don’t get the gummy/chewy texture that is required. What should I use in conjunction with the agar agar to get this texture without having to compromise the vegan factor?

J. Mueller · Answer

Just checked the ingredients of some common brands and it looks that they mostly use a mixture of sucrose and glucose-syrup or invert syrup(aka glucose-fructose-syrup) as a base, some also add modified starch. While pectine, locust bean gum, guar or xanthan is used as thickening agent. Agar also would go in this list, but seems not to be used very much by the industry for making gums. But this might rather be for financial than for technical reasons. I would recommend to search for some recipes to compare against each other and to use as starting point to figure out the right balancing of the mixture.

Answered by J. Mueller on December 5, 2020

Which gum/gums to use to get a gummy texture when using Agar agar powder

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