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SHEET /m/guar-gum · MoleculeFinder curated (no single PubChem compound) · REV 2026.07

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Guar gum

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polysaccharide · food flavor

What is Guar gum?

The thickener from guar bean, used to keep ice cream smooth and gluten-free dough workable. It swells enormously in water. from source

No single structure

Guar gum 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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