{"id":210364,"date":"2025-04-02T05:28:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/a-step-toward-plant-based-gelatin-gum-tragacanth-shows-promise-for-reducing-animal-use"},"modified":"2025-04-02T05:28:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T10:28:54","slug":"a-step-toward-plant-based-gelatin-gum-tragacanth-shows-promise-for-reducing-animal-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/a-step-toward-plant-based-gelatin-gum-tragacanth-shows-promise-for-reducing-animal-use","title":{"rendered":"A step toward plant-based gelatin: Gum tragacanth shows promise for reducing animal use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-step-toward-plant-based-gelatin-gum-tragacanth-shows-promise-for-reducing-animal-use2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With increased awareness about food sources and their environmental impacts, replacing animal-derived products in food and drugs is a significant research area. One common\u2014but often overlooked\u2014animal protein is gelatin, found everywhere from candy to plastic-free packaging.<\/p>\n<p>In <i>Physics of Fluids<\/i>, researchers from the University of Ottawa present gum tragacanth as a plant-based alternative to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/gelatin\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gelatin<\/a> for creating edible films.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGelatin has unique properties and its use is versatile,\u201d said author Ezgi Pulatsu. \u201cTo fully replace gelatin, we must replicate its microstructure and understand its function in different applications.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With increased awareness about food sources and their environmental impacts, replacing animal-derived products in food and drugs is a significant research area. One common\u2014but often overlooked\u2014animal protein is gelatin, found everywhere from candy to plastic-free packaging. In Physics of Fluids, researchers from the University of Ottawa present gum tragacanth as a plant-based alternative to gelatin [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}