Carrageenan
Carrageenan is a red-seaweed extract used as a gelling and stabilizing ingredient in professional cooking.
About Carrageenan
Carrageenan is a family of polysaccharides extracted from red seaweed and sold as a culinary hydrocolloid. Cooks use small measured amounts to change how liquids set and to stabilize frozen desserts. Modernist Cuisine's pistachio gelato recipe uses carrageenan to help control the finished texture.
This entry represents extracted carrageenan, not whole carrageen moss or a prepared stabilizer blend. Different carrageenan types and grades behave differently, so a recipe's specified product matters. The powder is dispersed into a preparation rather than eaten as a standalone food. It should not be substituted automatically for another gum or for gelatin.
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Carrageenan nutrition & diet
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Use a reference for the specified dry extract, not whole seaweed, a blended stabilizer or finished gelato. Recipe quantities are typically small and must be measured separately.
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For the plain ingredient · Awaiting review. Diet compatibility is not allergy suitability or halal/kosher certification. Keto and low-carb depend on the portion.
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