Alginate: Current Use and Future Perspectives in Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications

Table 2

The use of alginic acid and its salts in food and pharmaceutical industry.

Code	Ingredient	Application in food industry	Application in pharmaceutical industry
E400	Alginic acid [1]	Emulsifier, formulation aid, stabilizer, thickener	Tablet binder and disintegrant, sustained release and release-modifying agent, taste masking agent, thickener, suspending and viscosity increasing agent, stabilizer
E401	Sodium alginate [4]	Texturizer, stabilizer, thickener, formulation aid, firming agent, flavour adjuvant, emulsifier, surface active agent	Suspending and viscosity increasing agent, tablet and capsule disintegrant, tablet binder, stabilizer, sustained release agent, diluent in capsule formulation, thickener
E403	Ammonium alginate [7]	Stabilizer, thickener, humectant	Color diluent, emulsifier, film former, humectant
E404	Calcium alginate [8]	Stabilizer, thickener	Tablet disintegrant
E405	Propylene glycol alginate; [9]	Emulsifier, flavoring adjuvant, formulation aid, stabilizer, surfactant, thickener	Stabilizer, emulsifier, suspending and viscosity increasing agent