Kapadia Gumchem Industries

Gum Ghatti is a water-soluble complex polysaccharide exuded from the bark of the tree Anogeissus latifolia of the family Combretaceae. The tree is quite large and found in large numbers in the dry, deciduous forests of India and Ceylon. The crude gum has a glossy fracture and occurs in rounded tears, which are normally less than 1 cm. in diameter. The commercial powder is 140 mesh and varies from buff to dark brown. The lightest color has the least impurities and the greatest effectiveness in most applications. Since Ghatti and Karaya are found in the same geographic areas, the harvesting and grading are similar. The best crops are picked when the monsoon is not occurring, and the largest crop is harvested in April.

Properties:

1. Almost odouress and bland taste
2. Solubility Gum Ghatti is 80 to 90% soluble in water
3. Emulsifying properties
4. Clear solutions

Other Details:

• The colour of the gum varies from whitish yellow to amber; though the presence of impurities sometimes imparts a brownish colour to the gum.
• Gum ghatti is partly soluble in water and forms a colourless mucilage.
• Gum ghatti is a moderately viscous gum lying intermediate between gum arabic and gum karaya. Lt forms viscous solutions at concentrations of about 5% or higher and exhibits typical non-newtonian behaviour.
• The emulsifying properties of gum ghatti are excellent and considered to be better than gum arabic and thus used in more difficult-to handle systems.
• Gum ghatti solutions are sensitive to alkali. Viscosity increases sharply with ph upto a maximum at about ph of 8.0 and above that the solutions tend to become above that the solutions tend to become stringy.
• Gum ghatti is approved for food use and is in the gras list under the food, drug and cosmetic act, u.S.A. It is non toxic and is not metabolized in human.
• It is used for imparting clarity to the product at the right viscosity.
• As it is of low viscosity, it imparts exact flow required of wines, whisky, soft drinks etc.
•  It improves the stability of the product and prevents separation.
• It also provides some preservating properties so as to preserve the flavor and colour of the product.
•  It is also an emulsifying agent.
• We extract the material from malegaon, dist. Nasik and surrounding eastern regions of maharashtra state I.E. Dhulia, akola, yevatmal, aurangabad etc. In this region the forest are auctioned. We participate in this auction and enter in the contract for a specific forest area. The material is extracted from the tree bark under our specialized supervision team.

Gum ghatti is available in different forms and shaped crystals. The colour of gum ghatti varies from whitish yellow to amber. This variation depends on following factors like storage time, duration it has remained on tree before being picked and the tear to the bark. The locals or usually the tribals collect the gum area wise and not tree wise, hence it becomes necessary to manually sort each lot.

This gives us an advantage to supply right quality as per the buyers requirement. Very few exporters in india can provide this services.