Where do you find gums, acids and glucose ingredients?
If I find a recipe that contains any of those, I just won't make it because I don't know where to find such ingredients but now there's a series of desserts I want to make that use most of them. I don't think you can find most or any of those at the corner grocery store. I can probably get a five-pound bag at the commercial supplier but that's not the quantity I want.
So do you folks order those online or is there a general type of store I can find in a big city? I don't need a specific store recommendation (and that might not be allowed here).
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Many of those are available online; that's certainly where my wife and I have obtained most of these sorts of ingredients. That's usually the "quickest" way to get them, in the sense of least effort to find something (not necessarily quickest to actually arrive of course). Citric Acid, Gum Arabic, etc. are easily available in "moderate" quantities (think a pound or so) online.
Some are also available at larger grocers, depending on exactly what you're looking for. If you're in a larger city, there are also often specialty stores that carry some of these ingredients; especially if they're frequently used in a particular culture's cuisine, for example there is a Korean market near my work that has quite a lot of specialty ingredients that I can't find easily elsewhere or even easily find online in moderate quantities. Look in the "bulk" area of the store - next to the bulk nuts and seeds and such; often you'll find other powders, like many of the gums and acids.
I'd also check with the larger spice shops - while what you're describing isn't a spice, sometimes they'll carry them anyway due to the similarities (and, probably, the similar distributors). I've found for example gum arabic at my local (larger) spice store.
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What are sources of gums?
Classified according to origin, behavior, and chemical structure, gums can be derived from plant seed endosperm (guar gum) [2], plant exudates (tragacanth), shrubs or trees (gum arabic, karaya gum, cashew gum) [2, 3, 4, 5], algae extracts (agar) [6], bacteria (xanthan gum), animal source (chitin), and others [7, 8, 9, ...Where do you get gum arabic?
Virtually all internationally traded crude gum arabic is produced in the so-called gum belt: the vast arid wooded savannas that span sub-Saharan Africa, from Mauritania and Senegal, in the west, to Sudan, Eritrea, Somalia, Kenya and the United Republic of Tanzania, in the east.What is gum arabic made out of?
Gum arabic, also known as gum sudani, acacia gum, Arabic gum, gum acacia, acacia, Senegal gum, Indian gum, and by other names, is a natural gum originally consisting of the hardened sap of two species of the Acacia sensu lato tree, Senegalia senegal and Vachellia seyal.What is a substitute for gum arabic?
There are quite a few different alternatives to Arabic gum but the main two we are going to focus on today are Guar gum and Xanthan gum as they are some of the most versatile.What Makes Sugar-Free Gum Sweet? | Ingredients With George Zaidan (Episode 11)
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Most of those ingredients can be bought in regular quantities from online stores (depending on where you are in the world, result could vary).
A quick google in my area show that I could find Xanthan Gum (for example) in grocery stores or places like Walmart or bulk food retailers
(disclaimer, I've only looked at results from google, i did not check to see if they were available now at the different stores.)
Curious, what "acids" or "glucose" ingredients are you referring to ?
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