Sodium alginate, also known as sodium alginate, seaweed gum, alginate, alginate, extracted from a natural kelp polysaccharide carbohydrate. Widely used in food, medicine, textile, printing and dyeing, paper making, daily-use chemical products as a thickener, emulsifier, stabilizer, binder, sizing agent to use. Since the eighties, since the sodium alginate in food applications, get new expansion. Sodium alginate is not only a safe food additive, but also can be used as biomimetic food or food matrix effects, because it is actually a natural cellulose, can slow the absorption of fat, sugar and bile salts, with lower serum cholesterol, blood triglycerides and blood sugar can prevent high blood pressure, diabetes, obesity and other modern diseases. It can inhibit the intestinal tract of harmful metals such as strontium, cadmium and lead accumulation in the body, precisely because such an important role in sodium alginate, at home and abroad are increasingly being valued by the people. The Japanese put food rich in sodium alginate known as "longevity food", the Americans claimed it as "wonderful food additives
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