| dc.description.abstract | Biopolymer consists of various components produced from agriculture, wether from extraction process, reaction, or microbiological process. Specific .character of the polymer is the thickening ability, so this component is widely used as stabilizer (thickening agent) in various food as well as non-food industry, especially that related to textural characterestic such as jam and souce, and various forms of cosmetis emulsion and medicine product. The significant utilization of biopolymer is especially in emulsion industry, food as well as non-food, which are now'consist of about 80% of various types of industry in Indonesia. This is because biopolymer has the thickening ability character which directly increase the viscocity as well as emulsion stability. Biopolymer, which are dominantly used in the various industries are pullulan, CMC, karagian, arabic gum, and xanthan gum. among those polymer, pullulan recently get the most attention because this polymer can be processed into the from of paper or film, which uniquely, are degradable, non-toxic, and low oxygen permeability, hence used widely in packaging materials. | id |
