You can also check in local health food stores and specialty grocery stores.
**Be sure to use precaution working with lead. I suggest you do this project under adult supervision.**
Good luck!
But sir, I would like to ask, a source of Xanthan gum which doesn't need for us to spend. Somewhat, a Xanthan gum from our environment. I would like to ask what specific environment can we find Xanthan gum. And how to produce this kind of enzyme. Thank you.
From this website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthan_gum it would appear that xanthan gum is not natural, but is rather produced by fermenting sugars in the presence of certain bacteria.
In other words, you can't just go out and cut down a Xanthan gum tree; you're going to have to buy it somewhere.
MelissaB wrote:From this website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthan_gum it would appear that xanthan gum is not natural, but is rather produced by fermenting sugars in the presence of certain bacteria.
In other words, you can't just go out and cut down a Xanthan gum tree; you're going to have to buy it somewhere.
Thank you for the effort in answering my question. I would like to ask what are the steps in making or producing Xanthan gum?
I don't think you can make Xanthan gum. If you look at the page Melissa provides, you see that this is a very complicated biopolymer that is manufactured on a very large scale. This is a very important commercial product, so most procedures are probably optimized for a very large scale (in a factory) and require equipment you cannot obtain.
As Melissa pointed out, it is fairly cheap to buy- you would probably spend more money to buy the items to make it than just to buy completed product.
You could try to get someone to give you some... do you know anyone who cooks "gluten-free" food? Xanthan gum is often used to replace gluten in baked goods. A professional cook might also have this item.
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