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Gum Arabic available $1.*0 - $5.*0 / Kilograms | ***0 Kilogram/Kilograms (Min. Order)

Food

In food, gum arabic is used as a stabilizer. It is edible and has E number E**4. Arab populations use the natural gum to make a chilled, sweetened, and flavored gelato-like dessert.

Ink

Gum arabic has been used from ancient times as part of black ink. The main constituent is carbon soot from lamps or burnt plant material. Apart from water and gum arabic, the ancient Egyptian ink was made of not much else. Written on paper or papyrus, this ink has survived for over three thousand years.

Gum arabic is a key ingredient in traditional lithography and is used in printing, paint production, glue, cosmetics and various industrial applications, including viscosity control in inks and in textile industries. Nowadays less expensive materials compete with it for many of these roles.

Painting and art

Powdered gum arabic for artists, one part gum arabic is dissolved in four parts distilled water to make a liquid suitable for adding to pigments.