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Processed Fruits and Vegetables
Gum Arabic is used to preserve fruits and vegetables. All dried fruits, root and tubers, legumes and packaged seeds are likely to have Gum Arabic added to them. Canned vegetables might contain Gum Arabic as well. Spreads, pureed fruits and vegetables, vegetable sauces, candied fruit, canned vegetable juice and other processed products that contain fruits and vegetables are often prepared with Gum Arabic to ensure that the ingredients will last longer.

Processed Meats
Any meats that have been processed or have ingredients such as flavorings added to them are likely to contain Gum Arabic. This includes hot dogs, sausages, luncheon meats and canned fish. Any preserved meat or fish, as well as dried egg products and meaty soups and sauces also contain Gum Arabic. Products made with soybeans, such as tofu and soymilk, usually don't contain Gum Arabic. However, soy-based seasonings, such as soy sauce, are likely to use Gum Arabic as a preservative.

Flavor encapsulation
The flavor industry uses Gum Arabic as a fixative in spray drying applica-tions where the gum encapsulates the flavor compound, protecting it from oxidation and volatilization.When used as a fixation, Gum Arabic forms a thin film around the flavor particle, protecting it from oxidation, evaporation, and absorption of moisture from the air. This is advantageous when hygroscopic materials become spray dried. Flavors spray dried with protective colloids last 10-20 times longer than the same flavor air dried on a solid. Gum Arabic is reacted with gelatin in a medium containing the flavor to form an insoluble, protective film surrounding or encapsulating the sphere of flavor. In the flavor industry, Gum Arabic is used for two primary applications. These are as a stabilizer for the concentrate used for soft drink manufacture (oil in water emulsion) and as a protective carrier for spray drying liposoluble and sensitive products.

Gum Arabic for Non-Food Application
Pharmaceutical and medical applications
Usage of Gum Arabic in pharmaceutical depends upon its emulsifying, suspending, demulcent or coating characteristics. It is an effective suspending aid and has been employed to suspend insoluble drugs and to prevent the precipitation of heavy metals from solution. Due to its high solubility, low viscosity and high soluble dietary fiber content. Gum Arabic finds use in meal replacers, nutritional beverages and weight –loss products. For pharmaceutical usage its inherent emulsifying and stabilizing properties plus its demulcent and emollient characteristics have led to a number of applications which are further extended because it retains its viscosity and stabilizing properties over a wide pH range. Intestinal absorption of poorly soluble medicinal substances, such as steroids, fat-soluble vitamins, and barbiturates which are suspended in Gum Arabic and be facilitated by incorporation of welting-agents or other emulsifiers into the preparation. In the medical area Gum Arabic has been used for the treatment at low blood pressure caused by hemorrhage or surgical shock. The addition of (a7%) Gum Arabic solution reduced the dissipation rate of the sodium chloride solution and this treatment was successfully. However, the subsequent development of such blood plasma extenders eliminated the sue of Gum Arabic. In plastic surgery Gum Arabic adhesive has been used successfully in grafting destroyed peripheral nerves. Spray dried Gum Arabic is sued both as a carrier in capsules and as a tabletting binder. One of its oldest and best known uses has been in cough syrups.