Konjac powder

Our company of Konjac flour is a powder extracted from the konjac plant. Konjac is a perennial herbaceous plant belonging to the family Araceae and the genus Amorphophallus. Its underground tubers are rich in dietary fiber. The main component of konjac flour is glucomannan, and it also contains some dietary fibers, iron, calcium, and other elements and vitamins. Depending on the processing method and particle size, konjac flour can be divided into ordinary konjac flour, ordinary refined konjac flour, ordinary konjac micro-powder, purified konjac flour, purified refined konjac flour, and purified konjac micro-powder.

Konjac flour has many characteristics, such as strong expansibility, viscosity, and gel-forming ability. It is widely used in various fields. Food field:

1. As a food additives: It can be used as a thickener, emulsifier, quality improver, and auxiliary filler for suspensions. For example, in beverages, it can increase the viscosity of juices and pulps, stabilize fruit particles, and improve the quality of the beverage; in baked goods such as bread and cakes, it can improve the stability of the dough, increase water absorption, enhance the strength and elasticity of gluten, increase the volume of the bread, and has an anti-aging effect.

2. Making various foods: It can be used to produce konjac tofu, konjac noodles, konjac vermicelli, konjac jelly, jam, salad, and caviar. By adding 10-20% of konjac gel to pork, low-fat pork sausages can be produced; by adding konjac gel to seasonings, konjac beef jerky and konjac fruit preserves can be made. In the field of health foods: Konjac flour is low in calories and rich in dietary fiber, which has health benefits and can be used to develop a series of health foods and functional foods. For example, the gel made from refined konjac flour under alkaline conditions can be combined with fruit juice to make fruit juice granule beverages, which have certain health benefits.

3. In the field of cosmetics materials : Utilizing some of the properties of konjac flour, it can be used to produce masks, facial waters, soaps, and other cosmetics. In the field of pharmaceutical raw materials: In medicine, konjac flour can lower excessive cholesterol and high blood sugar in the blood and liver, has an inhibitory effect on colorectal cancer, and can be used as an auxiliary material for some drugs to help form the drugs.

4. Other fields: By utilizing the synergistic effect of konjac flour with other colloids, green and environmentally friendly plant colloids can be developed, which can be used as preservatives, adhesives, flocculants, suspensions, and stabilizers, and applied in industries such as food, dyeing, and papermaking.