What is Carrageenan?
Carrageenan is a versatile fiber used in a variety of foods, personal care products, pharmaceutical products and dietary supplements. It's often used as a thickening agent in place of petrochemical and animal-based products.
Food is social. There’s always lots of conversation about taste, politics, recipes, health and more. Hear what some others are saying.
For as long as we’ve been eating, food ingredients have been used around the globe. Learn more about important ingredients, such as carrageenan, here.
The application of food science is even more important as the world population expands.
Food science makes food available for billions of people. It allows us to produce and transport simple products such as milk, juice or ice cream. It makes delicious foods we already have even better.
And considering that we all eat, every one of us has an opinion about what and how we eat and how it should look and taste. We share those opinions at the dinner table and, increasingly, in online mediums like this one. Whether the subject is GMOs, gluten, sweeteners, coloring agents, stabilizers or preservatives we now have an abundance of opinion – much of it agenda-driven, substituting volume and accusation for facts. All this information and opinion on the food sciences has made us somehow less informed and more frightened.
At Dupont Nutrition & Health, we value science as pursuit of simple truth. We employ many of the world's most talented research scientists who also feed their own families every day. For more than a century we've established the utmost standards both for our science and the ingredients we produce. Because we’ve believed for decades that Food Science Matters.