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SHEET /m/carrageenan · MoleculeFinder curated (no single PubChem compound) · REV 2026.07

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Carrageenan

from source

polysaccharide · food flavor

What is Carrageenan?

The seaweed extract that keeps chocolate milk from separating and sets a vegan panna cotta. It is harvested from Irish moss and its relatives. from source

No single structure

Carrageenan is a polysaccharide: a large chain of sugar units. It has no single 2D or 3D structure, molecular weight or SMILES, so MoleculeFinder models it by hand.

ClassPolysaccharideinferred

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